Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery Act 2001

The objects of this Part are as follows—

to recognise the responsibility that the beverage industry shares with the community for reducing and dealing with waste generated by beverage product packaging,

to establish a cost effective State-wide container deposit scheme to assist the beverage industry to discharge that responsibility and to promote the recovery, reuse and recycling of empty beverage containers.

The container deposit scheme established by this Part includes the following features—

it provides for the establishment of a Scheme Coordinator and network operators with responsibility for the administration of the scheme,

it provides for the payment of refund amounts to persons depositing at collection points empty beverage containers that are subject to the scheme,

it provides for the establishment by the Scheme Coordinator of a cost recovery scheme under which beverage suppliers agree to make contributions towards the cost of paying those refund amounts,

it prohibits the supply of beverages in containers that are subject to the container deposit scheme by beverage suppliers who have not agreed with the Scheme Coordinator to make those contributions,

it prohibits the supply of beverages in containers of a kind that are not approved by the EPA.