Waste export ban on mixed plastics now in force
As of Thursday 1 July, waste mixed plastics can no longer be exported from Australia. All future waste plastic exports must be licenced and as a minimum be sorted into either a single polymer bale or processed pellet/flake to a recognised industry specification.
The National Waste and Recycling Industry Council (NWRIC) supports the COAG export ban on unprocessed waste materials, and its members are working hard in collaboration with state and federal governments to upgrade existing sorting capacity and build new processing facilities across the country. Many of these we expect will come online over the next 12 to 18 months.
Laborâs electric vehicle tax set for a rough road ahead
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The Victorian governmentâs plan to tax drivers of electric vehicles is in jeopardy because the government does not have the support to pass the legislation in Parliamentâs upper house.
Key independent MPsintend to block the new tax that Treasury expects to raise $30 million over four years and is forecast to cost the average EV motorist between $260 and $300 a year after its proposed July start date.
Sales of electric vehicles are on the rise around the world.
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The state government wants to tax EV drivers, who do not pay fuel excise, 2.5 cents per kilometre and make them contribute to the cost of maintaining the road network. The tax is similar to one soon to be operating in South Australia and is designed to ensure the state does not suffer a revenue shortfall when EVs â which make up less than 1 per cent of Australian vehicles, 10 times fewer than