Mr. Leslie Carberry:

I thank the Senator. On the specific questions around the single-use plastic directive and markings, we would need to engage on that with colleagues who are working directly on transposing the directive and revert to the Senator. In terms of the marine protected areas being add to the list as something the Minister would have to take account of, we could look at that. On head 4, the recovery levy is essentially a counterpart to the landfill levy. That means when material is sent for recovery to incineration or exported for recovery it will incur a levy and that levy will fund the circular economy fund. It is essentially tackling something we want to phase out in the medium term through the use of a levy to incentivise more sustainable behaviour and ring-fencing that revenue for environmental and circular economy nitiatives. It is not the case that this would be providing money to those activities. Rather, it will be levying those activities with a view to disincentivising their use vis-à-visrecycling.

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