At a Launceston Clean Up Australia Day event, Greens Senator Peter Whish-Wilson announced a draft bill to ban single-use plastics by 2025.

"If we had laws in this country that stopped unnecessary single-use plastics getting into our waterways and laws that actually properly recycled ... then we would be cleaning up Australia every day," he said.

Mr Whish-Wilson said he had spent 10 years cleaning the roadways, labelling them a national disgrace. 

"We know that governments can fix that. In Adelaide you won't see that because they have a container deposit scheme." 

Australia has had a waste action plan since 2009 and none of the 15 recommendations have been implemented, he said.

The Product Stewardship Amendment (Packaging and Certain Plastics) Bill 2019 will establish a mandatory product stewardship scheme that adopts recycling targets from the Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation’s 2025 National Packaging Targets.

It will also introduce a ban on certain single-use plastics by 2025 and adopts consumption reduction targets for other plastics by 2025 in line with the 2018 European Parliament Directive. 

Other targets of the bill include banning microbead and lightweight plastic bags and introducing a container deposit scheme by 2021.

Mr Whish-Wilson is confident the plan would get parliamentary support. 

About 50 people helped clean up at Royal Park on Sunday. 

"This place has actually been cleaned two or three times in the last six months. But if you go and have a look at all the rubbish that we've found I'm really pleased with the turn out," Mr Whish-Wilson said. 

Cigarette butts, plastic wrappers, straws and balloons were found. 

"Cigarette butts are without a doubt the scourge of pollution, people don't realise that filters are actually full of microplastics, so when they go into the ocean they break down into thousands of pieces of plastic," he said.