Page 526 - Week 04 - Thursday, 29 June 1989
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Comprehensive recycling plan to be introduced, with big bins not to be introduced.
A member: It should just have said, "See Labor Party policy". It would have saved a lot of paper.
MR MOORE: Yes, I think the Labor Party did an excellent job on this. It plagiarised, but certainly drew some of the best points from our policy. Perhaps we should leave that to rest and realise that both of us probably rely quite heavily on the same advisers. Labor probably is very much involved in the Conservation Foundation, and quite rightly so.
A member: Whose policy came out first.
MR MOORE: Mr Speaker, someone referred to whose policy came out first. The first fully published, fully documented policy that was released was the Residents Rally's.
A member: Rubbish!
MR SPEAKER: Order! Rubbish should be recycled.
MR MOORE: Thank you, Mr Speaker. This committee ought to look very carefully at sorting of waste at the source, and so the concept of big bins will come into question. This committee of course - I say this without pre-empting its decisions - will have to look very, very carefully at ways and means of recycling at the source, so it may be a coordinated three-bin system or a couple of different rubbish collections a week, one a recycling collection and one a landfill collection.
Let me clarify our position on this motion. We will support the motion. We will draw attention to the line "(not including industrial and clinical waste)", except for the Minister's suggestion that in fact this can be dealt with at a later date rather than overloading the committee with that now. We will certainly ensure that it is dealt with at a later date.
With reference to recycled paper, the ACT Government will have to look at paper procurement policies. Currently over 50,000 tonnes of paper in the ACT is not recycled. The ACT Administration alone used over 30,000 reams of paper. When we talk about recycled paper, one of the problems is that recycled paper is about $2.50 or $3 more expensive than the paper that we are currently using.
Mr Wood: In immediate terms.
MR MOORE: In immediate terms; that is what I am getting to. I thank Mr Wood. Part of that reason is that it has such low volume sales, so it is critical for us to ensure that the volume of sales increases so that the price can go down and so that the recycling manufacturers can buy up the
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