Hello: I think this policy…

Hello:
I think this policy is a step in a right direction, but a small step and needs to be made a bigger one. It's never easy and often not appreciated to do the right thing. However, things that do not seem to be addressed are (unless I missed it on my read):
- grey cases such as schools and food courts. So they do not literally produce the recyclable waste but they for sure make it more convenient and easy for public to buy food in potentially recyclable containers. If schools would not have vending machines and cafeterias, there would be less waste. Are venues such as this in anyway included to entice them to not serve for example single use plastics?
- replacing a recyclable material with something compostable could be very tricky, because some technically compostable materials have quite an environmental footprint in its production cycle and, certain things while compostable in theory would not be compostable in all green bin type programs. THe policy does not seem to define a list of exact materials that are worth substituting. And there is no timeline or goal for it.
- what are the consequence of NOT following targets? So what if a business says that they will NOT bother recovering anything? Yes, there is this line here: "The Resource Productivity and Recovery Authority (the Authority) would provide third-party oversight of outcomes" But there are no further information on who is the third party, who are they accountable to and how can fraud be avoided?

It seems that as in case with smoking, forbidding certain things is a much more realistic way forward to reduce waste. Smoking is not allowed in public internal spaces, society seemed to have adjusted and it's a much simpler system that trying to make cigarette producers to undo some of the damage and setting targets for them. So if anything, the policy should be setting close targets of banning many plastics out right. Unfotunatelly, you can educate all you want and as a teacher in a public school I have witnessed first hand how in a lower income neighborhoods students throw recycables into the garbage. Or throw a paper take-out container with food to the blue bin. Do they know? Very likely - posters are everywhere and teacher explain and educate. But there is no incentive to do the right thing, because there are no legal consequences for doing the wrong thing. It is of course not in the scope of this policy to institute consequence of bad behaviour in schools, but this policy could illuminate those take out containers and single use containers in the first place. If pop cans cannot be purchased or if you want take out you bring (or buy for $10+) your own glass container it will be much more effective than thousands of dollars spent on education. To be receptive to education one has to care. Many don't.

Thank you, I hope the policy is improved to be much more stricter and better for environment.