Australia is in the midst of significant deposit-return changes. In this episode of the Reloop Brief, Shraddha Kumar speaks with Robert Kelman about several states in Australia expanding eligibility to wine and spirits, how moving glass out of the kerbside stream reduces damage and loss at MRFs, and who pushed for the change.
The discussion also takes a look at Tasmania’s first months of operation, with about 30 million containers returned in a state of 550k people, along with the design levers that influence participation. Finally, they discuss South Australia’s decision to ban the popular soy-sauce fish packet and why piecemeal bans aren’t a substitute for a coherent, national extended producer responsibility framework that funds high collection and reprocessing and helps recyclate compete with virgin materials.
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