NCOSS - Council of Social Service of New South Wales - Support for a NSW Container Deposit Scheme

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Support for a NSW Container Deposit Scheme

Container deposit schemes, such as the one in South Australia, levy a returnable deposit (10¢) on all drink bottles, cans and cartons. The deposit is able to be redeemed at depots collecting the containers.

The benefits of such a scheme include:

an increase in the recycling rate of containers;
the creation of jobs in manufacturing and maintaining/administering collection depots;
money for voluntary groups and charities (by collecting and returning containers);
savings to local government that can be used to enhance services; and
a reduction of litter in our streets and water ways.

For these reasons NCOSS supports a container deposit scheme.

NCOSS calls on members of the NSW Parliament to support the Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery (Container Recovery) Bill 2008, which seeks to establish a NSW scheme.

Resources

Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery (Container Recovery) Bill 2008

Information

Dev Mukherjee, NCOSS Senior Policy Officer
phone: 9211 2599, ext 116
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