The Environment Minister must create a new packaging responsibility scheme that makes the people who make, import, or sell packaging responsible for it throughout its entire life cycle.

The Environment Minister can create financial incentives for companies, but these incentives cannot act as a tax.

The packaging scheme overrides any State or Territory laws that place similar requirements on packaging companies.

The Commonwealth can change or cancel national environment protection measures to make way for the scheme.

The Environment Minister must review the scheme's operation every five years, with the first review happening within three years of the scheme starting, and must table the review reports in Parliament.

Packaging manufacturers, importers, and distributors must follow the Environment Minister's rules, which include meeting 2030 targets for reusable and recyclable materials and phasing out problematic single-use plastics.

Packaging companies must use clear labels to show how their packaging affects the environment and how to dispose of it, and must pay fees based on how much packaging they use and how easy it is to recycle.