An audit shows supermarket customers are charged less for plastic-wrapped produce more than 70 per cent of the time, and conservationists say it's hurting the environment.
Environment groups want supermarkets to act faster to reduce plastic packaging .Environment groups are warning urgent action is needed to reduce plastic packaging .
The audit found potatoes cost customers on average 53 per cent more to buy loose than packaged in plastic.ABC News: Darryl Torpy"It encourages people to buy more packaging and more plastic because they see it's a cheaper price," AMCS plastics campaign manager Cip Hamilton said. A study by European sustainability group Wrap disputed that claim, finding little evidence that plastic wrapping extended shelf life.
State environment ministers will meet with the federal government in December to consider imposing mandatory requirements for the industry to address the issue. Ms Plibersek said she had created a billion-dollar Recycling Modernisation Fund, with the intention of increasing the country's recycling capacity., and worsened when Australian soft-plastic recycling company REDcycle collapsed in 2022.
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