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Australia Update – Accord Australasia澳大利亚 -澳大利亚卫生、化妆品和特殊产品工业组织

Bronwyn CapannaExecutive Director

执行理事长 – Bronwyn Capanna

Australia…澳大利亚……

Australia: key economic statistics澳大利亚：关键经济数据Population: 24.6 million 人口：2460万Population growth rate: 1.6% (year to Dec ’16)人口增长率：1.6% （截至2016年12月）Land area: 7,686,850 sq kilometres 土地面积： 7686850平方公里

GDP (2016): $US 1,204,616 billion GDP（2016）： 12046160亿美元

GDP growth: 2.8% (year to Dec ’16) GDP增长：2.8% （至2016年12月）Inflation rate: 1.3% (year to Dec ‘16) 通胀率：1.3% （至2016年12月）Interest rate (cash): 1.5% 利率（现金）： 1.5%Currency: $1AUD = $0.80USD (Sept’ 17) 汇率：1澳元=0.8美元（17年9月数据）Unemployment: 5.6% (Aug’ 17) 失业率： 5.6% （2017年8月数据）Top 10 trading partners: China, Japan, United States,South Korea, Singapore, New Zealand, United Kingdom,Thailand, Malaysia and Germany.排名前10合作伙伴：中国、日本、美国、韩国、新加坡、新西兰、英国、泰国、马来西亚和德国

Value of 2-way trade (2015-16): $AUD661,451million 双边贸易总值（2015-16）：661451000000澳元

Accord Strategic Plan 2016-18 Accord战略计划 2016-18

VISION 愿景The national voice of the hygiene,cosmetic and specialty productsIndustry

MISSION 使命Providing indispensable membershipservices to facilitate growth andproductivity for a globally competitiveindustry

VALUES 价值Respected, credible, honest, influential,science and evidence-based

Examples of Accord’s local initiatives

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an opportunity for resource sharing and greater

collaboration amongst AOSDAC members and their

companies?

Some of these initiatives include…

Independent, science and evidence-based ecolabel identifying environmentally preferable commercial cleaning products

Recognised®

Key features • Multiple-criteria based (US EPA Safer Choice Program) • Promotes flexible approaches to formulation • Transparent • Third-party assessed • No turnover-based fee • Over 100 cleaning products currently licenced

Endorsement EcoBuy and Sustainable Choice NSW Reviewed by eminent panel of Australian environmental science and toxicology experts: as “sound and robust…science-based, targeted and pragmatic”

Standard Criteria document

Scope

Commercial/I&I applications

• hard surface cleaning products (general purpose cleaners, bathroom cleaners, toilet bowl cleaners, glass cleaners, floor cleaners, oven cleaners)

• carpet & upholstery cleaners

• hand hygiene products

• laundry detergents

• dishwashing products

• automotive cleaners

• sanitisers

Recognised® Standard Criteria

• Performance • Ingredient disclosure

Human health

Environmental criteria

General principles

• Concentration • Aquatic tox, persistence,

bioaccumulation • Colorants • VOCs • Phosphorus, Sodium • Packaging

• Prohibited – toxic (DG 6.1) • Restricted – carcinogens,

mutagens, reproductive toxins • Fragrances • Sensitisers

Irrelevant criteria

Recognised® Standard Criteria

Standard Criteria document

Scope

www.washwise.org.au

Consumer-oriented information on sustainable

laundry practices, whilst also assisting

consumers to use laundry products correctly

Key messages:

Tips to wash wisely Creating a WashWise laundry Environmental impacts of laundry Wastewater impacts, and especially reusing greywater

Refresh of design, navigation and information in 2018

Plastic Microbeads - BeadRecede

August 2014• Media on plastic debris found in Sydney Harbour

November 2014• 1st Stakeholder WG convened by Environment Ministers (Accord invited participant)

December 2015 • MEM* policy decision for microbead phase out in personal care, cosmetic and cleaning

products: 2 year phase out & no later than 1 July 2018

November 2016• MEM policy announcement for voluntary, industry-led phase out • Effectiveness of voluntary action to be assessed in mid-2017, regulation as alternative

*MEM: Meeting of Environment Ministers

February 2017 • Phase out agreement finalised • Accord launched BeadRecede & industry outreach commenced

June 2017 • Accord submitted initial baseline progress report to MEM • MEM satisfied with progress so far: “Ministers welcomed industry progress to deliver a

voluntary phase out of microbeads by mid-2018”

Accord’s role going forward.. • Submit progress reports to the MEM every 6 months (until 1 July 2018) • Commence broader industry outreach to companies using solid plastic microbeads

beyond their conventional usage e.g. industrial heavy-duty hand soaps (from October 2017)

• Continue push for policy attention on other sources of marine microplastic pollution

Plastic Microbeads - BeadRecede

Plastic Microbeads – BeadRecede

Accord’s initial baseline report demonstrated: • >50% of relevant companies have already completed their phase out of plastic

microbeads • 93% of all relevant companies are on board with meeting the phase out, having either

removed solid plastic microbeads or committing to do so by 1 July 2018 • 66% reduction in the number of products containing plastic microbeads over this period

*As reported by Accord member companies (20 responses)

Accord Information & Sustainability Programs

www.accord.asn.au

Thank you!