Page 3372 - Week 09 - Wednesday, 20 August 2008

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(a) use resources more wisely by:

(i) developing and implementing a sustainability community awareness program that emphasises waste minimisation and avoidance as the fundamental first step in effective waste management; and

(ii) requiring all ACT Government agencies to report annually on their waste generation, and actions they propose undertaking to use resources more efficiently; and

(b) further advance waste management by:

(i) developing and implementing a waste minimisation/avoidance action plan with specific measurable performance measures;

(ii) progressing a domestic and business organic waste collection system;

(iii) developing and implementing a Business Waste Reduction Strategy that includes:

(A) reducing waste;

(B) recycling and reusing waste;

(D) holding a businesses waste forum to encourage innovative and cost effective approaches for reducing waste;

(iv) providing more facilities for recycling in public places and at major events; and

(v) establishing an ACT e-waste consortium, including Australian and ACT Government agencies, universities and the Canberra Institute of Technology, the CSIRO, businesses, industry and other major e-waste generators to:

(A) provide data on e-waste;

(B) raise awareness about e-waste;

(D) promote waste minimisation as a practical way to advance sustainability;

(2) affirms the principles of extended producer responsibility that underpin the Waste Minimisation (Container Recovery) Amendment Bill 2008; and

(3) calls on the ACT Government to:

(a) adopt a whole of life cycle analysis approach to procurement policies;

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