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Household waste spikes during the festive season

Published 2 January 2025, 8:05 am
Australia's waste levels tend to spike during the festive season with bins teeming with wrapping paper and gift and food packaging. In 2018, Australia set a series of national targets around the recovery of packaging and this year is the deadline. Figures show we're behind on almost all of them.
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