I am advised as follows:
On 13 April 2013, as part of the Council of Australian Government
Ministerial Council on Environment and Water (SCEW), Australia's Environment
Ministers considered a progress report on the development of the Packaging
Impacts Decision Regulatory Impact Statement (DRIS), including three different
container deposit scheme models.
The NSW Government continues to work at a national level to progress the
DRIS and its modelling so that Environment Ministers can make a fact based
decision on this important issue. The Government will only support a container
deposit scheme where it is introduced nationally, delivers strong resource
recovery rates and provides a net benefit to communities.
In the meantime, the Government remains open to all the options being
considered so long as they are demonstrated to be cost effective and generate
benefit to the community without significantly increasing the already rising
cost of living.
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