Recommendations

Recommendations

Recommendation 1

3.51    The committee recommends that as part of the framework legislation, a priority list of products to be covered by product stewardship schemes be developed and published annually.

Recommendation 2

3.52    The committee recommends that an advisory group consisting of waste management experts, industry representatives, environmental groups, community representatives and government be established to advise the environment ministerial council on declaring priority products.

Recommendation 3

3.64    The committee recommends that the legislation preserve or protect product stewardship schemes at the state level that are already underway so as to not reduce their targets or effectiveness.

Recommendation 4

3.87    The committee recommends that, subject to the recommendations made elsewhere in this report, the Senate pass the Product Stewardship Bill 2011 during the winter Parliamentary sittings.

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