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provision and sale of healthy food and drinks in ACT public schools. The policy uses a traffic light system to identify healthy and unhealthy foods. All schools are encouraged to increase green foods on the menu and decrease red and amber foods.
Municipal services—recycling
(Question No 2069)
Ms Le Couteur asked the Minister for City Services, upon notice, on 30 November 2018:
(1) Is all the soft plastic that people are collecting and taking to their local supermarkets being used for road base; if not, (a) what percentage of soft plastic that people are collecting and taking to their local supermarkets is being used for road base and (b) what is happening with the remaining soft plastic.
(2) Is there a market in the ACT for recycled soft plastic; if so, (a) which companies are currently purchasing recycled soft plastics and (b) what are these companies doing with the plastic.
(3) Are all the glass bottles that people are putting in their yellow bins being used for road base; if not, (a) what else are the glass bottles that people are putting in their yellow bins being used for and (b) what is the percentage breakdown for the uses of the glass bottles that people are putting in their yellow bins.
(4) Is there a market for recycled glass in the ACT.
(5) Are any of the companies purchasing the glass actually using them to make new bottles/beverage containers.
(6) What proportion of the ACT’s second hand glass is only able to be sold as glass fines.
(7) What proportion of these glass fines are being used in road base in the ACT.
(8) Are all the Inkjet cartridges, toner cartridges and toner bottles that people drop off at designated businesses and government outlets being used for road base; if not, (a) what percentage of inkjet cartridges, toner cartridges and toner bottles that people drop off at designated businesses and government outlets are being used for road base and (b) what is the percentage breakdown of inkjet cartridges, toner cartridges and toner bottles that people drop off at designated businesses and government outlets usage.
(9) Who is the ACT’s hard plastic and beverage containers being sold to and what are they using the hard plastic and beverage containers for.
(10) What proportion of recycled plastic is being reused by Replas for plastic street furniture or building materials,
(11) Who is the ACT’s paper and cardboard being sold to.
(12) Have other uses been considered for all of the mentioned materials in parts (1) to (11).
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