Senate debates Questions without Notice

Waste Management and Recycling


Peter Whish-Wilson

Peter Whish-Wilson Tasmania, Australian Greens

2:21 pm

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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