Page 531 - Week 04 - Thursday, 29 June 1989
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The costs involved in picking up this extra public refuse probably far outweigh the costs or any revenues raised from fees that people pay to go into the tip. Besides, people should be encouraged to go to the tip, to the local dump, and use it, and I do not think it makes sense to charge people fees to go and do the responsible, community spirited thing.
One other area that I think would need to be looked at would be perhaps establishing a service in the ACT to recycle CFC and halon gases from old refrigeration equipment, air-conditioning units, and especially stuff from cars at the wreckers and firefighting equipment - I am sure Mr Berry will be able to tell us all about that. I think that should be made absolutely compulsory. I think it has been established by now that those gases are a tremendous drain and strain on the ozone layer in the upper atmosphere and are far more damaging than what happens when someone throws a bit of paper on the side of the road.
So all in all, I think there are a number of issues that this committee can certainly look into and report on, and I think every right-thinking person in this house will support this reference. The date 31 October seems a reasonable amount of time for the committee to report by, and accordingly we support the motion.
DR KINLOCH (11.11): Mr Speaker, I welcome all that has been said. I especially congratulate the Government and the Minister on this particular area. In the light of Mr Duby's comments, I rise as a recycled person and I know many of us here in the Assembly are recycled from what we used to do. May I take this metaphor as one that we should spread abroad - that we should not just be thinking of products, but of people. The whole area of recycling, if we could see it as a metaphor, is a wonderful thing for our throwaway society, for our own century and the next century. I hope that recycling will be a special metaphor for those in their 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s as they begin to do new things.
I would like to congratulate the ACT Administration - here I am thinking of the public servants, and in particular our own Clerk, Deputy Clerk and their officers - on some internal efforts to save paper. I draw your attention to notice paper No. 9 for Thursday, 29 June, which is printed back-to-back, and I am very glad indeed to see that. Would it not be fair to say that over the past few weeks we have seen chunk after chunk after chunk of paper - and I have been guilty of this myself - where we put out things on just one side of the paper? So thank you for this historic notice paper No. 9 back-to-back.
I especially also would like to commend the media unit, headed by Jan Boulton, which is recycling old letterheads and old correspondence from previous Ministers - and I noticed Gary Punch's name very prominently on the back of a
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