Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek says the proposed recycling tax has been “coming for a long time”.
Ms Plibersek joined Sky News Australia to discuss the Coalition’s original recycling tax which the current Labor government plans on implementing.
“The rules around recycling paper and cardboard were developed by the Morrison government in 2019,” she said.
“What the previous government said at that time is Australia should be dealing with Australian rubbish and we should be doing more recycling in Australia.
“The problem was they didn’t set up any sort of system to achieve their objective.”
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