Page 3840 - Week 13 - Thursday, 18 October 1990
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December this year. I invite the Labor Party to attend that day. It will be of extreme relevance to their current situation in the Territory.
This new initiative should ensure a greater awareness of the need to recycle throughout the ACT region. The Government announced, in its response to the inquiry, that the current network of bottle banks for glass and PET plastic would be extended to all areas of Canberra.
Mr Berry: Except Ainslie.
MR COLLAERY: This was seen as a very cost-effective way to improve participation in recycling by making it more convenient for people. This strategy is now being implemented. Mr Berry interjected and asked me about Ainslie. I suggest that Mr Berry go to the Ainslie shops and look. This strategy has already proved successful. Seven additional recycling drop off facilities for glass have been installed at shopping centres in north Canberra. Two of these facilities can also be used to drop off PET plastic bottles. As a result of these additional facilities, the amount of recyclables being collected in north Canberra has already increased. I am sure all members would applaud that development.
Over the next few months the network of recycling drop off facilities will be extended to all areas of Canberra - I repeat, Mr Deputy Speaker, all areas of Canberra. The question of recycling aluminium cans has not been neglected. Approval has been given for Comalco to set up a further 10 cash-for-cans facilities in Canberra. I am now aware that the Labor Party has not had any further donations from the video industry and may wish to move into the aluminium can collecting business itself. This extension of the current cash-for-cans network should also increase the quality of aluminium cans being recycled.
Another initiative on the recycling front which has come to fruition is the new Mitchell recycling centre. This centre was opened by my esteemed colleague Mr Duby on 21 September 1990 and is already being well used. Members will be aware of the advertisements that are currently being circulated in the daily press in relation to the Mitchell recycling centre. I am sure members will also be pleased to know that the signs on this centre feature our own Recycling Roo who is the central figure in the publicity campaign to encourage recycling and composting. Recycling Roo will also be used in the recycling day promotion which I mentioned earlier.
The methods which are being used in other States and overseas to encourage recycling are being actively studied to ensure that the ACT is in touch with the most successful recycling techniques. This Government, Mr Deputy Speaker, is encouraging recycling in other ways. Currently, several recycled products are being trialled. The use of recycled paper is becoming more extensive within the ACT Government
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