• National Waste Policy Action Plan (NWPAP) agreed to by Australia’s environment ministers
2020• First National Plastics Summit
• Passing of the Recycling and Waste Reduction Act 2020
• Microbeads phased out in rinse-off cosmetics, personal care and
cleaning products
2021• First National Plastics Plan delivers on action 5.5 of the NWPAP
• CSIRO’s A circular economy roadmap for plastics, tyres, glass and paper
in Australia released (January 2021).
• Regulate unsorted mixed plastic waste exports (July 2021)
• First review of National Environment Protection (Used Packaging Materials)
Measure 2011 and the Australian Packaging Covenant to evaluate the
co-regulatory arrangements
• National Plastics Design Summit
2022• Regulate unprocessed single polymer or resin waste plastic exports (July 2022)
• Phase out non compostable plastic packaging products containing additive
fragmentable technology that do not meet relevant compostable standards
(AS4736-2006, AS5810-2010 and EN13432) (July 2022)
• Phase out expanded polystyrene (EPS) in loose fill and moulded consumer
packaging (July 2022), and food and beverage containers (December 2022)
• Phase out PVC packaging labels (December 2022)
• Review progress of 2025 National Packaging Targets
2023• At least 80% of supermarket products to display the
Australasian Recycling Label (December 2023)
2030--Work with the textile and whitegoods sectors on an industry-led phase-in
of microfibre filters on new residential and commercial washing machines by 1 July 2030