Industrial Transformation Australia Innovation Stage Agenda

Every milk bottle on the supermarket shelf is still made from new plastic, and the reason is cost: recycled HDPE runs about 40% dearer. This conversation brings together the three partners behind a Victorian-built, closed-loop recycling system that sets out to flip that equation, making recycled content cheaper than virgin and keeping milk bottles in a continuous loop. The conversation will cover the cost problem that has stalled recycled packaging, how a compact, modular plant and a takeback model rewrite the maths, and what it takes to scale a circular supply chain across the dairy sector. The thread running through it: making sustainable packaging stack up commercially, not just environmentally.