Monday, 19 April 2021, 9:42 am
A coalition of organisations and businesses are
collecting signatories to an
open letter urging Environment Minister David Parker to
introduce a comprehensive beverage container return
scheme.
Zero Waste Network spokesperson Marty Hoffart
says a container return scheme which excluded specific
beverage containers, such as glass bottles, would not work.
It has to be comprehensive to be effective.
“The
Government has invested 18 months of work into figuring out
how a container return scheme would work, but unfortunately
vested industry groups are pushing hard to exclude glass
from the scheme.”
“It would be bonkers not to
include glass in a container return scheme. Glass is a