Calls for Australia’s ‘flawed’ recycling system to be simplified

Tom Elliott is the first to admit he finds Australia’s recycling rules confusing.

Some plastics are allowed in the recycling bin, others are not.

And even those rules vary from council to council.

“So many of us try and do the right thing but our system is too hard, too complicated,” he said.

But why is it the case?

Tom spoke about the matter with Trevor Thornton, Lecturer at Deakin University’s School of Life and Environmental Sciences and Hazardous Materials Management, to find out more.

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