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Chair's Foreword

Members

Terms of Reference

Abbreviations

List of Recommendations

Executive Summary

1. Introduction

  Background
  Inquiry process
  Commonwealth waste management and recycling reforms
  Structure of the report
  Acknowledgements

2. Waste management and resource recovery

  What is waste?
  Waste statistics
  Waste management and resource recovery industry
  The waste hierarchy
  Circular economy
  Committee comment

3. Role of the Commonwealth

  Current Commonwealth programs
  Committee comment

4. Impediments to innovation

  Innovation framework
  Committee comment

5. Waste to energy

  Advantages
  Disadvantages
  Best fit
  Impediments
  Policy considerations
  Committee site visit
  Committee comment

6. Rural and regional Australia

  Transport
  Local solutions
  Access to information
  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
  Microfactories
  Committee comment

7. Textiles

  Opportunities in textile recovery
  Proposed solutions
  Committee comment

8. Focus areas

  Waterways and oceans
  Food organics and garden organics waste
  Medical waste
  Solar panels
  Wind turbines
  Mining
  Committee comment

9. Community engagement

  Committee comment

A. Submissions

B. Exhibits

C. Public hearings

D. Treaties and legislation