Mr Phillip Weickhardt
Inquiry into Waste Generation and Resource Efficiency in Australia
Productivity Commission
LB2, Collins Street East
MELBOURNE  VIC  8003

Dear Commissioner Weickhardt,

I would like to make a submission in response to your above report.

Please put more responsibility on producers to reduce packaging and/or recycle packaging. ie. Introduce a deposit/take back scheme for plastic/glass containers.

Also consider introducing a ban on plastic shopping bags. If consumers have no other alternative they will adapt quickly to using “green” shopping bags.

Yours sincerely

Carolyn Chalkley