Since 2018 plastic litter items have decreased by 45% and all litter by 42%.
The Boomerang Alliance is now calling on the Commonwealth and State/Territory governments to continue to reform our packaging laws and reduce plastic waste and litter even further.
- We need producers to be responsible for the packaging they sell, including responsibility for waste and recovery
- We need State and Territory Governments to continue to phase out problem single use plastics
- We need a national soft plastics collection service, noting that soft plastics now represent over 34% of all packaging litter (Clean Up Aust data)
- We need to improve container schemes by raising the refund level to 20 cents and adding other items such as bottle tops and other containers
