Single use packaging banned in the ACT. 

 

  • All plastic shopping bags with handles, regardless of thickness.
  • single-use plastic plates, bowls, cutlery, straws, stirrers and cotton bud sticks.
  • All oxo-degradable plastics, often used in products like dog waste bags and rubbish bags and can be labelled as degradable.
  • Plastic microbeads in rinse-off personal care and cleaning products, (microbeads often found in skin care and hygiene as well as cleaning products).
  • All expanded polystyrene includes cups, takeaway food containers, open trays (such as meat trays for butchers).

 

Proposed upcoming bans for the ACT. 

There are currently no proposed bans for items in 2025. 

 

Source used and more information:

https://www.cityservices.act.gov.au/recycling-and-waste/single-use-plastics