Scott Morrison to pledge new rules and better infrastructure to boost recycling

Government departments will be required to consider recycled content when purchasing goods as environment groups call for 100% recycled mandate for plastic packaging

The prime minister, Scott Morrison, will announce an overhaul of Commonwealth procurement rules to increase demand for recycled products, as the government lays out details of its new recycling policy on Monday.

Morrison, who will make the announcement at the national plastics summit in Canberra, has flagged the need to increase demand for recycled product so that "industry will respond".