Zoe Kavanagh

Yeah, we have the single biggest piece of regulation that's going to change the packaging industry in 30 years.

It comes into effect in August and we want to raise awareness, particularly among our members.

We have three and a half thousand members.

They are businesses that are involved in packaging.

Packaging is part of their commercial endeavour.

And kicking off in August is job number one.

They need to look at their supply chains and they need to identify roles.

So there's a variety of roles.

Are you a manufacturer, a distributor, an importer?

or a producer.

If you're a producer, you need to come knocking on Repack's door.

You need to become a member of Repack.

And what we do in exchange for that membership is we take on the responsibility of recycling or reusing or refilling their packaging.

From 2030, that's correct.

There's packaging in the marketplace today, complex packaging, the likes of pouches that might have granola in them.

They're made up of three or four different plastic material types.

And from 2030, they will no longer be allowed in the marketplace.

Yeah, so pouches in general, if they're made of plastic, if they're clean, loose and dry, they should be going into your recycling bin.

Talking about pet food, all those cans that pet food come in, clean, loose and dry into the recycling bin.

But the key point here is Repack's here to support their members and we will guide them through the regulation over the next five and 10 years because it's set out over a long timeframe.