Container deposit scheme
Lily D’AMBROSIO (Mill Park – Minister for Climate Action, Minister for Energy and Resources, Minister for the State Electricity Commission) (09:46): I rise to speak about the immense success of the container deposit scheme in my electorate of Mill Park. Constituents in the electorate have enthusiastically taken up the program, with more than 660,000 containers returned at local locations. That is 267,359 cans, 10,932 cartons, 122,211 glass containers and 259,811 plastic containers. It means more than $66,000 is back in the hands of the local community, all the while reducing the amount of waste that ends up in landfill. Our most popular location, at the Meadow Glen athletics track in Epping, is receiving on average 6342 containers each day. I encourage all residents to download the CDS Vic North app so that they can choose to receive their funds electronically or indeed donate to one of the hundreds of registered organisations. With two CDS reverse vending machines installed in the electorate and a third to open this coming Friday, residents in the electorate are not slowing down.