Senate debates

Wednesday, 21 March 2018

Questions without Notice

Waste Management and Recycling

2:21 pm

Photo of Peter Whish-WilsonPeter Whish-Wilson (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Energy, Senator Birmingham. Minister, in February last year China announced its intention to ban the import of low-grade recycled material. China then gave notice in WTO in July, and again in November, with the details of this ban, which came into effect on 1 January this year. Australia has exported to China annually around 60,000 tonnes of papers and plastics through—

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