Thursday, 18 June 2026

 Aiv PUGLIELLI (North-Eastern Metropolitan) (14:05): (2418) My constituency question today is to the Minister for Environment. Many people would be upset to hear that they are incorrectly trying to recycle large Tetra Paks through kerbside recycling. I would encourage everyone to check their own local council recycling rules around large Tetra Paks. We all want to make sure that we are getting it right. I have been contacted by a constituent in the Nillumbik shire who wants to be able to recycle UHT milk and other large Tetra Paks but currently cannot. Perhaps this could be through container deposit schemes or another kind of collection. I do not think people really mind, as long as the Tetra Paks can be recycled. Most of us genuinely want to get these things right. We do not want to be contaminating our recycled waste, leading to tonnes of waste going to landfill. We want our communities to be sustainable and to recycle as much as we can. Minister, will you work with local councils as well as recycling providers to ensure that they have the technology required to recycle all types of Tetra Paks?