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About ACOR
• Formed in 1983
• A national peak representative body for the recycling and resourcerecovery industry –any organisation can join, only one LGA which is odd
• Our core business
o Lobbying governments for policies and regulations that supportorganisations in the recycling and resource recovery industry
o Advising our members on what’s going to happen next!
• >80% of all recycling activity
• >30 million tonnes p.a.
• 40,000+ jobs and growing
Key barriers to increasing recovery
and recycling of packaging
1. Packaging design
2. Manufacturer’s resistance
3. Lack of supply chain alignment
4. Lack of investment/ infrastructure
5. Landfill costs
6. Uncertainties of regulatory standards
7. Regulatory failures
8. Increasing complexity of packaging
9. Increasingly packaging is not recyclable/recoverable
10. Lack of end-of-life markets/ price
The “old” waste hierarchy
• This is linear, not circular, but a
useful intermediate /transitional
framework
Unnecessary complexity
Age of new materials
Institutional Change
Technological change uneven
Packaging
Recycling
Technological
developments
Time
Design for recovery
• Material information
• Progressive reduction of contaminants
• More effective sorting
• Easy dismantling
– not using multiple polymers or mixing different
types of materials that cannot be separated
Future packaging resource recovery
trends – International context
• In 2009 China passed new law to form a Circular
Economy
• Major strategic importance – if successful will set a new
level for global competitiveness
• Part of the law is a Packaging Master Plan comprising of
legislation that will restrict, recover, recycle and reuse all
packaging materials.
• “Green Wall/Fence/hedgerow- in Chinglish
• Contaminated plastic imports being stopped by customs
Future pathway of packaging waste?
Sustainability of current system?
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
In $
mill
ion
Waste Exports
Paper
Glass
Plastics
Big Changes
• Price volatility+ divergence + scarcity
• Just the beginning, as developing countries deal with their own packaging time bombs
• Need for local reprocessing infrastructure support from government
• Made to be made again, design for recovery/ M&A of supply chain
• Deployment of information technology
• Policy/ regulatory agenda change for a circular materials economy
ACOR
ACOR will continue to advise our members
and governments and our members on these transformations
