{"id":667472,"date":"2026-05-13T04:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/667472\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T04:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:35:08","slug":"the-specification-gap-in-australias-packaging-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/667472\/","title":{"rendered":"The specification gap in Australia&#8217;s packaging reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Australia missed every National Packaging Target in 2025. The headline figure, 44% average recycled content against a 50% goal, has been attributed to infrastructure gaps, consumer behaviour, and the complexity of packaging supply chains. These explanations are accurate but incomplete. They describe symptoms of a more fundamental problem: the market for recycled materials in Australia is structurally broken, and no amount of investment in collection or sorting infrastructure will fix a market that cannot signal quality. The recycling system\u2019s core problem is not what goes in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia missed every National Packaging Target in 2025. The headline figure, 44% average recycled content against a 50%&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,322217,322218,322219,44,322220,3810,322221,322222],"class_list":["post-667472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-design-for-kerbside-recyclability-grading-framework","tag-high-density-polyethylene-hdpe","tag-national-packaging-target","tag-news","tag-packaging-and-packaging-waste-regulation","tag-recycling","tag-virgin-plastics","tag-virgin-polyethylene-terephthalate-pet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}