Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That the following matter be referred to the Environment, Communications and the Arts Committee for inquiry and report by August 2008:

Management of Australia’s waste streams, with particular reference to:

(a)

trends in waste production in Australia across household, consumer, commercial and industrial waste streams;

(b)

effectiveness of existing strategies to reduce, recover or reuse waste from different waste streams;

(c)

potential new strategies to reduce, recover or reuse waste from different waste streams;

(d)

the economic, environmental and social benefits and costs of such strategies;

(e)

policy priorities to maximise the efficiency and efficacy of efforts to reduce, recover or reuse waste from different waste streams; and

(f)

consideration of the Drink Container Recycling Bill 2008.

Question agreed to.