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Parliamentary Questions


Question Without Notice No. 694 asked in the Legislative Council on 24 June 2020 by Hon Martin Aldridge

Parliament: 40 Session: 1

CONTAINER DEPOSIT SCHEME — REFUND POINTS

694. Hon MARTIN ALDRIDGE to the Minister for Environment:

I refer to the commencement of the container deposit scheme in Western Australia on 1 October 2020.

(1) Of the proposed 229 refund points set out in the minimum network standards for the scheme operator, how many contracts, agreements or similar have been entered into for service provision?

(2) Of those identified in (1), can the minister please name the service provider for each refund point that has been confirmed?

(3) How many refund points are still subject to an expression of interest process and what are their locations?

(4) Can the minister please identify the 172 refund point locations that will be in operation from 1 October 2020?

Hon STEPHEN DAWSON replied:

I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. I make the point at the outset that the Containers for Change scheme is being run by an organisation called WA Return Recycle Renew Ltd. The information that the member requires is not held by government. Nonetheless, I provide the following response.

(1)–(4) The minimum network standards are referenced in the Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery (Container Deposit Scheme) Regulations 2019 and require the scheme coordinator to have a network of at least 172 refund points by 1 October 2020 and a minimum of 229 refund points within a year. I table a copy of the minimum network standards and consultation summary, which includes indicative locations.

It is the responsibility of the scheme coordinator, WA Return Recycle Renew Ltd, to enter into contracts with network operators. Refund point operators and the location of refund points will keep evolving until the launch on 1 October 2020. The final list of refund point locations and operators is expected to be made available on the scheme coordinator's website in September 2020. I released a media statement in January this year that included the list of the operators selected to date to operate the 145 initial refund points. I table the attached media statement.

[See paper 3997.]