Submission to Inquiry into
Waste Generation and Resource Efficiency
Productivity Commission

Dear Commissioners,

It has been a policy of our council that we press for container deposit legislation.

Our Shire has (300) three hundred kilometres of state highway in it.

Our Shire joins the South Australian state border; where there is container deposit legislation and the roadsides are clean.

The Commission’s stated aim is to Resource Efficiency and Waste Generation. Recycling is not viable in our Shire because there is NO C.D.L.; but roadsides generally are not very clean – this is a bigger problem than local government can handle on its own.

The greatest WASTE generator is DRINK containers.

The payment of a deposit by users of the containers – gives recyclers a chance. This WORKS in south Australia.

Any enquiry as to the donations drink container producers make, will explain why this has not happened.

I would hope the political aspect of C.D.L. is not too daunting.

Wishing you luck in your deliberations.

W J Wheeldon