Global Legal Monitor Australia: Ban on Single-Use Plastic Products Enacted in Australian Capital Territory (May 10, 2021) On April 8, 2021, the Plastic Reduction Act 2021 (ACT) was notified in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Legislation Register, with the relevant bill having been passed by the ACT Legislative Assembly on March 31, 2021. According to the revised explanatory statement for the bill, the legislation gives effect to a phase-out of single-use plastic agreed to in the Parliamentary and Governing Agreement between the Labor Party and the Greens. The legislation aims to reduce the use of plastic in the ACT, particularly single-use plastic, by prohibiting the supply of identified single-use plastic items. These create significant issues for the ACT’s environment (e.g. through litter) and waste management and resource recovery sector (e.g. ending up in landfill or becoming contamination in the ACT Materials Recovery Facility). It also establishes a framework for adding other products in the future, and absorbs the existing plastic shopping bag ban to streamline plastic-related regulation in the ACT.