00:01From milk bottles to chocolate wrappers, our food is wrapped in plastic.
00:07At present in Australia, recycling of plastic is voluntary.
00:11Rules about recycled packaging dominated this conference this week.
00:15We need a national mandate from government.
00:18When you've got economies of scale, this can actually be a very, very strong business case.
00:23The Global Chocolate Company is teaming up with Australia's last plastics manufacturer
00:28as it pushes a soft plastics recycling process known as pyrolysis.
00:34How many of those size tankers did you use for the Nestle job?
00:38We used one of those.
00:40Plastics production was hindered at Viva's refinery
00:43when it erupted in flames at the peak of the oil crisis.
00:47The ASX listed refinery now back in action.
00:50We can turn waste soft plastics into a feedstock that's suitable for the refinery.
00:55It's going to be a bit far-fetched to get funding for this.
00:59It's very challenging to recycle softer plastics.
01:02Think about all of the colourings and the silver that needs to be removed from the plastic wrapping.
01:08That is why experts say that this sort of recycling is so expensive.
01:14Some manufacturers say that packaging mandates would push up prices.
01:18They'll next be discussed at a meeting of environment ministers in September.
01:23We're certainly working very hard with the states.
01:25We have done a lot of work on plastics reform, getting rid of single-use plastics.
01:29After the collapse of a major recycler, Woolworths is now back collecting plastic bags at 700 stores as part of
01:37a voluntary code.
01:38Still, there is no firm timeline on making any of this mandatory.
01:42You're having lots of oil to work on canal that has to be used.
01:42You're having a lot of power.
01:43That's great.
01:44You're going to be able to do this part of a fire.
01:44I'm making a lot of energy.
01:45Okay, you're going to be,
01:46You
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