National Agricultural Plastics Stewardship Scheme – Update

This article is an update of the National Agricultural Plastics Stewardship Scheme. This project aims to develop an agricultural plastics stewardship scheme for non-packaging plastic waste. The scheme will facilitate and incentivise a viable market to recycle agricultural plastics. It will involve solutions for on-farm retrieval, from farm collection logistics, processing technology and equipment and development of recycled plastic products and their markets. This project is one of 24 funded under the National Product Stewardship Investment Fund and a key initiative of the National Waste Policy Action Plan. It is being implemented from January 2021 to March 2023.