Author: Jake Evans
Some of the most easily recycled household plastic waste — including milk cartons, vegetable oil containers and soft drink bottles — will be sent overseas for processing after a decision by Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek to "temporarily" exempt them from a nationwide plastic export ban. Oatley Resources Australia has been granted a one-year exemption to export "clean and sorted polyethylene terephthalate (PET) waste plastic" to be processed and recycled into new products overseas, temporarily undoing a ban agreed to by all governments in 2020.