The Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment has developed a new campaign to urge Australians to recycle more and show how they can help create jobs and protect the environment.
Launching the ReMade in Australia campaign, Prime Minister, Scott Morrison said it was a critical step in giving people the confidence to recycle more and to buy products manufactured with recycled content.
“We are taking responsibility for our waste; we put a stop to it being shipped overseas as someone else’s problem and we have made recycling one of six national manufacturing priorities,” Mr Morrison said.
“Australians are doing the right thing and they want to be assured that the efforts they make in recycling at their homes and workplaces are delivering real outcomes, from the roads they drive on to the sunglasses they choose to wear,” he said.
Minister for the Environment, Sussan Ley said recycling reduced pressure on the environment and could create manufacturing jobs.
“The ReMade in Australia campaign asks Australians to look for those products using recycled materials, it raises awareness about the ways recycled materials contribute to our everyday lives,” Ms Ley said.
“The Government is driving a transformation of Australia’s waste and recycling industry, through the Recycling Modernisation Fund,” she said.
The Minister said this was resulting in Governments and industry investing in the commissioning of new plant and equipment, while the waste export bans were driving fundamental change.
“ReMade in Australia will help Australians understand the ways they are contributing, both through recycling and the choices they make at the check-out,” Ms Ley said.
