Page 3355 - Week 09 - Thursday, 22 August 2019
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in your recycle bin. The second is keep out soft plastics. They cannot be recycled through our MRF. They can be dropped off at a recycle collection point at our major supermarket providers. The third is keep out small items. Nothing smaller than a credit card can go in your recycle bin. It simply cannot be sorted to be recycled.
The fourth is keep it safe. Make sure that you are keeping things like hoses out of your recycle bin because they can get caught up in the plant at the materials recovery centre. The fifth is keep it clean. Make sure that you are not putting in containers that are dirty and might contaminate other material in the bin, like paper and cardboard. And last is keep it loose. Make sure that what you put into your yellow bin is separate and loose so that it can be sorted and then go on to be recycled.
MS CODY: Minister, how does expanding the container deposit scheme improve recycling and waste reduction in the ACT?
MR STEEL: I thank Ms Cody for her supplementary. As I mentioned, 31 million containers have now been collected under the container deposit scheme. The CDS targets beverage containers, which are most commonly found in the litter stream. It encourages recovery, reuse and recycling of these containers with a 10c refund as an incentive. Being able to collect containers in that way through the CDS ensures that a cleaner waste stream is provided. This makes it much easier for these products to be sold on to resource markets.
We are currently making it easier for people to return their containers. Just over a week ago, I visited the Phillip CDS depot where a new Australian-designed reverse ATM has been installed. New to the ACT, this technology sorts through beverage containers with a significant efficiency rate, halving the time it takes to return containers. It provides an instant cash refund for people using the terminal as well.
I was very lucky to be joined by Brindabella Christian College student James, who has so far collected 25,000 containers from his community, mostly by doorknocking some of his neighbours and getting them to save the bottles for him and his friends. He and other users were highly impressed with the new technology now being trialled at Phillip. We will continue to roll out more points throughout the ACT, and potentially this new technology as well.
Planning—Ginninderra Estate
MRS KIKKERT: My question is to the Minister for Planning and Land Management. Minister, massive steel towers for a new 330,000-volt transmission line are being erected only 16 metres away from metal residential fences in the Ginninderra Estate. In addition, the environmental impact statement identified these towers as high risk for visual pollution, even after mitigation. Consultation for this project occurred before most homes in this estate were built and occupied. Minister, why was approval given for these towers to be built only 16 metres away from residents’ fences?
MR GENTLEMAN: I thank Mrs Kikkert for her question. It is an important one as we move forward and as Canberra’s population increases and we look to other areas
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