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Call to comment
on waste levy
Submissions have been invited on a review of the NSW Waste and Environment Levy.
Minister for the Environment, Robyn Parker said input was being sought from Local Councils, waste and recycling industries and the wider community on the impacts and operations of the levy imposed on each tonne of waste disposed in landfill.
“The Waste and Environment Levy is an important driver of resource recovery in NSW, and as Minister for the Environment, I am committed to increasing recycling,” Ms Parker said.
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“The Levy is our State’s most significant environmental market-based instrument encouraging waste avoidance and resource recovery, and it is crucial to ensure that it achieves precisely that.”
She said independent consultants were leading the review and chairing a series of consultation sessions across NSW in February with the consultation period to run until 13 April 2012.
“The waste levy is designed to reduce waste to landfill and increase recycling and there are very strong and diverse opinions among stakeholders about the levy and how it should be spent,” she said.
“KPMG has been appointed to lead an independent process that will provide an opportunity for the waste industry, local government and the broader community to share their views and contribute to the debate.”
Ms Hodgkinson said consultation sessions and workshops would be held in Ballina, Port Macquarie, Maitland, Sydney CBD, Parramatta and Kiama during late February.
More information is available from this PS News link.
Edition 255, 25 January 2012
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