Tuesday, 2 December 2025

 Ryan BATCHELOR (Southern Metropolitan) (12:53): My constituency question is to the Minister for Environment. How is the Victorian government investing in infrastructure to boost sorting and processing capacity for plastic waste? Last week I attended the Precious Plastic Monash annual exhibition, which is a group of students at Monash University’s engineering department who have got a passion for figuring out how we deal with plastic waste, and they had their annual exhibition of all the work they have been doing through the year to come up with new uses for recycled plastic, alternatives to plastic and new and inventive polymer products. The team spends time with local primary schools looking at how we can come up with alternative uses for plastic waste. They collect pots from the waste transfer facility at the City of Stonnington and are turning them into new products. This is an incredibly passionate team of students who are doing a remarkable job at trying to figure out how we deal with plastics in our community. Congratulations.