Would the federal Government consider making the recycling of e-waste compulsory?
GARRETT: What I want to do is look at the best measures that we can agree with states and also with local councils which reduce the volumes of waste that go to landfill. There is clearly significant levels of e-waste which are growing over time. We need to act on this matter and the Commonwealth has signalled its intention to develop a national waste policy. As we develop that policy, clearly we’ll listen to stakeholders, we’ll listen to the jurisdictions but in the longer term we want to come up with in approach whether it has some regulation in it, some voluntary measures in it, education measures in it – all of those measures together to reduce the volumes that are going into landfill. JOURNALIST: But no commitment at this stage to make it compulsory? GARRETT: Well, I think the important thing for us to do is to start working quickly and urgently with stakeholders, develop this national waste policy, take it back to state environment ministers to make sure that we’ve done a really t
