{"id":15300,"date":"2022-03-06T03:33:26","date_gmt":"2022-03-06T03:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=15300"},"modified":"2022-03-06T03:33:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T03:33:26","slug":"if-the-government-did-its-job-wed-have-policies-that-clean-up-australia-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/03\/06\/if-the-government-did-its-job-wed-have-policies-that-clean-up-australia-every-day\/","title":{"rendered":"If the Government did its job, we&#8217;d have policies that clean up Australia every day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Greens have called out the Morrison Government\u2019s refusal to mandate waste and recycling targets as a key reason Aussies will again be found cleaning up the mess of big packaging companies this Clean Up Australia Day.\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Greens spokesperson for waste and recycling, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson said:\u00a0<\/strong><br>\u00a0<br>\u201cIt shouldn&#8217;t be up to citizens to pick up the mess big packaging companies make, but every Clean Up Australia Day that\u2019s exactly what we\u2019re left doing because of our Government\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2021\/mar\/13\/australia-to-miss-plastic-reduction-targets-without-tougher-enforcement-waste-industry-says\">refusal to mandate waste and recycling targets<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHistory shows that voluntary targets will never be met by big packaging companies because it\u2019s simply too easy for them to avoid change and their social responsibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur government could mandate waste and recycling packaging targets with the stroke of a pen. This would go a long way towards keeping waste from choking our oceans and polluting our landscapes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Greens have a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/greens.org.au\/sites\/default\/files\/2022-01\/2.3%20Creating%20a%20Circular%20Economy.pdf\">waste and recycling policy<\/a>&nbsp;that legislates a national approach to phasing out key single-use plastics by 2025, legislates a national approach to container deposit schemes, supports a Global Plastics Treaty, and mandates national packaging targets in law.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn the balance of power after the federal election, we will push the next Government to adopt the Greens\u2019 plan and end the waste and recycling crisis for good.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greens have called out the Morrison Government\u2019s refusal to mandate waste and recycling targets as a key reason Aussies will again be found cleaning up the mess of big packaging companies this Clean Up Australia Day.\u00a0\u00a0Greens spokesperson for waste and recycling, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson said:\u00a0\u00a0\u201cIt shouldn&#8217;t be up to citizens to pick up the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/03\/06\/if-the-government-did-its-job-wed-have-policies-that-clean-up-australia-every-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;If the Government did its job, we&#8217;d have policies that clean up Australia every day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15301,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15300\/revisions\/15301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}