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Inquiry into waste management of absorbent hygiene products

Published on December 7, 2022

AFI has made a submission to the Inquiry into waste management of absorbent hygiene products, by the Standing Committee on  Environment Climate Change and Biodiversity. In our submission we call for the committee to ensure waste reduction action aligns with just transition principles and meet commitments in the 10th governing agreement to ‘ensure a just transition for those impacted by the shift to net zero’.  We strongly oppose any steps to ban, limit, restrict from easy public access or impose price signals against single use continence products required by people with disabilities