・Scott Morrison’s promise to introduce a waste export ban is doomed to fail unless they change tack and back it with hundreds of millions of dollars in funding and a requirement that public agencies use recycled material.
・develop a local industry to process what would no longer be exported.
・Australia exports about 4.5m tonnes of waste to Asia each year, more than half of which is metal.
・about the amount of plastic waste ending up in the ocean and cited data suggesting just 12% of Australian plastic waste was recycled
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/08/scott-morrisons-waste-export-ban-doomed-to-fail-environment-ministers-warned
