That Carpet & Environment-Destroying Polystyrene Packaging Will Be Banned Nationally In 2022

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Playing tetris with the rubbish bin and a fuckload of that annoying polystyrene packaging is soon gonna be a problem of the past, because the bastard stuff is being banned by the middle of 2022. Thank fuck for that, I can’t tell you how much that white bin-filling stuff irritates me.

A new National Plastics Plan is being enacted, ruling that polystyrene packaging is to be banned by July 2022, with food containers and cups made of the same stuff also being banned by the end of next year.

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Finally, I won’t have to cringe while trying to cram a bunch of foam into the bin as it screams against the edges and literally everything else it touches. No more will I have to try and break it up without little crumbs of white foam flying everywhere and making me immediately feel like I’m single-handedly destroying the environment.

Goodbye you foamy white bitch, and don’t come back.

The decision to ban the stuff comes after the government held a National Plastics Summit last year, where a bunch of actions around prevention, recycling, and preservation of Aussie oceans and waterways were also formed.

Alongside the styrofoam ban, the wider plan aims to eliminate single-use plastics from the country’s favourite beaches, phase out PVC packaging labels by the end of 2022, shift industries toward plastics that are easier to recycle, and pushing for all packaging in Australia to be reusable, recyclable, or compostable by 2025.

The government is also introducing a Recycling Modernisation Fund (RMF), which will “turbo-charge” the country’s recycling industry, and work with the $1.5 billion Modern Manufacturing Strategy to make recycling a national priority.

It also plans to roll out a ‘Recycle Mate’ app this year, which will help Aussies figure out how to sort recycling properly. I’m genuinely very stoked on that one, and maybe I can subtly tell all my friends to download it so I can stop fishing soft plastics out of recycling bins.

Look, it’s not a glamourous piece of news – in fact, it’s quite literally trash talk – but I’m just fucken stoked I won’t have to deal with that polystyrene again after next year, and maybe we’ll cop some better recycling plans, too.

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