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South Australia’s Container Deposit Scheme – 2019 Review

Stakeholder Reference Group meeting # 3

5 September 2019Flinders University – Victoria Square

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South Australia's Environment Protection Authority

Acknowledgement of Country

We acknowledge this land that we meet on today is the traditional lands for the Kaurna people and that we respect their spiritual relationship with their country.

We also acknowledge the Kaurna people as the custodians of the Adelaide region and that their cultural and heritage beliefs are still as important to the living Kaurna people today.

We also pay respects to the cultural authority of Aboriginal people visiting/attending from other areas of South Australia/Australia.

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Agenda

• Update

• CDS Discussion Paper

• Continuing engagement

• Next Steps

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CDS Review Update

• Drivers • Purpose • Consultation and engagement

• Submissions to Scoping Paper • Reference Group meetings • Individual industry meetings • Board Summit

• Five key discussion themes

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Discussion Paper: Key Issues

• Key Issue 1: Objectives • Key Issue 2: Containers included • Key Issue 3: Governance • Key Issue 4: Marking of Containers • Key Issue 5: Payment of Deposit • Key Issue 6: Ease of Container

Return • Key Issue 7: Refund Amount

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Discussion Paper:Key Issue 1: Objectives

Issues to be covered: - Contribution to Circular Economy

- Incl. opportunities to provide benefit to other pathways for waste management/resource recovery

- Litter reduction - Community education and awareness - Comparison with objectives of other schemes

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Key Issue 2: Containers included

Issues to be covered - Inefficiencies caused by anomalies on operation of the CDS - Inefficiencies caused by community uncertainty/confusion - Contribution to resource recovery - Results of consultancies

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Kerbside Recyclable Material Flow Analysis - To better understand the recovery of glass, liquid paperboard, plastic and metal resources within the kerbside system - Engagement of Industry Specialists to undertake the task - Auditing of the 3-bin kerbside waste collection system - Auditing of the Material Recovery Facilities (MRFs) - Surveying of stakeholders including local governments and MRF operators

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Non-Government Organisations and Commercial Recyclable Material Flow Analysis - To better understand the recovery of glass, liquid paperboard, plastic and metal resources within the non-kerbside system - Engagement of Industry Specialists to undertake the task - Auditing of the NGO CDS and Non-CDS container collection and processing system - Surveying of stakeholders including NGOs and licensed premises

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Economic Analysis of Material Flow results - To understand the impact of the CDS on prices, competition and consumers - To understand how the scheme works, and the regulatory and market environments that it operates in - Analysis of the results and recommendations arising from the Material Flow Analysis - Contribution of CDS to the SA/national circular economy - Engagement of Industry Specialists to undertake the task - Provide recommendations to Government to address impacts or behaviours arising from the operation of the scheme

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Key Issue 3: Governance

Issues to be covered: - Governance arrangements - Dispute resolution - Compliance, including administration and enforcement improvements - Monitoring and information

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Key Issue 3: Governance

Issues to be covered: - Comparison of key features of various governance options

- Coordination/management - Funding - Dispute resolution - Contractual arrangements - Regulatory underpinning - Auditing and reporting - Sorting and weighing/counting

- Findings of reviews of other schemes

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Key Issue 4: Marking of Containers

Issues to be covered: - Costs involved in altering refund markings - Role of refund marking in community awareness - Link between refund marking and sorting - Options for refund marking and related costs and benefits

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Key Issue 5: Payment of Deposit

Issues to be covered: - Comparison of refund options and related costs and benefits - Behavioural survey

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Key Issue 6: Ease of Container Return

Issues to be covered: - Barriers to return to depots - Alternatives such as RVMs - Community preferences - Costs and benefits of alternative options, including planning constraints

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Key Issue 7: Refund Amount

Issues to be covered: - Contribution of refund amount to return rate

- Behavioural study

- Cost on business and for consumers - Importance of national consistency

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Discussion Paper Engagement

Broad public consultation in first-half of 2020 Proposed engagement includes:

• Discussion paper distributed via direct communication and social media • Online survey about experience of SA’s CDS and feedback on options for

change provided in the discussion paper • CDS Community Summit to present and discuss options for change • Meetings of the Stakeholder Reference Group and • Discussion with individual stakeholders and groups.

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Next Steps

• Research and analysis of key issues

• Discussion paper release first-half 2020

• Recommended reforms from the CDS review mid 2020

• Legislative amendment and implementation commencing in late 2020

• National discussions to continue through the HEPA Waste Working Group

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Workshop

1. Overall governance comparison across the States/Territories

2. Discussion paper engagement opportunities

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Thank you

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