Webinar - Product Stewardship
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Presenters
Libby Chaplin, CEO, Battery Stewardship Council
Exploring Australia's product stewardship dilemma
Batteries have been identified as a priority waste under the Product Stewardship Act since 2013. This past year much progress has been made with the design of the proposed Battery Stewardship Scheme being finalised and submitted to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission for authorisation.
The design resulted from four iterations and was informed by significant research, market analysis, and consultation. The process has highlighted significant opportunities and challenges for Product Stewardship and rethinking of options for ensuring that true stewardship can be achieved for problem wastes in a national at the cusp of moving to a circular economic framework.
Dr Helen Lewis, Consultant, APCO
Towards the 2025 National Packaging Targets
APCO’s Towards 2025 National Packaging Targets presentation would include detailed outcomes from the Australian Packaging Consumption & Resource Recovery Data report, which benchmarks performance against the 2025 National Packaging Targets and has developed a more detailed understanding of the Australian packaging ecosystem.
This webinar would also include outcomes from the Framework for the delivery of the 2025 National Packaging Targets Strategy, which will Include packaging consumption, quantity of packaging recovered, packaging recovery rates, packaging recycled content, packaging recyclability, exports of recovered packaging, losses in the recovery chain and benchmarking against the 2025 National Packaging Targets.
Judith Schinabeck, Standards and Technical Manager, GECA – Good Environmental Choice Australia
Environmental credibility – an ecolabel for waste collection services
The GECA ecolabel Waste Collection Services standard contributes to a circular economy by setting a sustainability benchmark for services collecting waste from the point of collation and collection to a lawful processing or disposal facility. The standard aims to improve the accuracy and transparency of waste collection data, resulting in better sustainability performance and supporting service providers’ efforts to minimise their impacts. The best practice approach includes high recycling and diversion from landfill rates, established environmental and quality management systems, fair pay and workplace safety.
Moderator
Gayle Sloan, CEO, Waste Management & Resource Recovery Association of Australia
Following this time in state government, Gayle worked as a Director in a number of NSW councils, primarily looking after service delivery and assets. She developed and delivered a number of waste management contracts on behalf of councils, as well as managed environment and regulatory departments, including rangers and compliance officers.