Waste Reduction and Recycling Act 2011

The Product Responsibility Organisation’s main function is to administer and provide governance for the scheme.

Without limiting subsection (1), the Organisation has the following functions—

to ensure ongoing, efficient and effective arrangements are available in Queensland for empty beverage containers to be collected, sorted and recycled;

to establish a network of container refund points to, as far as practicable, provide communities in Queensland with access to a place for the return of empty beverage containers for the payment of refund amounts;

to ensure manufacturers of beverage products fund the scheme by requiring the manufacturers to pay sufficient amounts under container recovery agreements;

to set the amounts payable, or the method for working out the amounts payable, under the scheme—

by manufacturers of beverage products to fund the scheme; and

to the operators of container refund points to pay the refund amounts for empty beverage containers and to handle, sort and transport the containers for recycling;

to identify manufacturers of beverage products who are not participating in the scheme, including, for example, because a manufacturer—

is selling beverages in containers that are not registered; or

has not entered into a container recovery agreement with the Organisation;

to promote the scheme and the location of container refund points;

to receive and deal with complaints relating to the scheme from members of the public and entities participating in the scheme;

the functions given to it under this Act or another Act.