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Draft Queensland Resource Recovery Industries 10-Year Roadmap and Action Plan
The draft Queensland Resource Recovery Industries 10-Year Roadmap and Action Plan (the draft roadmap) sets out proposed actions to support industry growth and job creation for the state’s resource recovery industries over the next ten years.
The draft roadmap is an action under the draft Waste Management and Resource Recovery Strategy released in February 2019 which presents a plan for managing w
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Local Government Waste Management Reforms Consultation RIS
In late 2017, Queensland Treasury Corporation (QTC) was engaged to undertake a review of the local government waste management provisions in part 2A of the Waste Reduction and Recycling Regulation 2011, and chapter 5A of the Environmental Protection Regulation 2008, and consider a number of options for addressing issues raised by stakeholders.
QTC was engaged to investigate the potential impacts f
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Tackling Plastic Waste – Queensland Plastic Pollution Reduction Plan
The Queensland Government is committed to reducing the amount of plastic in and entering the environment. Plastic that is not managed appropriately can have significant environmental, economic, social and human health impacts.
The Queensland Government has already taken significant action, including the introduction of a ban on the supply of lightweight plastic shopping bags and the container ref
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Energy from Waste Policy Queensland
In July 2019, the Queensland Government released the Waste Management and Resource Recovery Strategy (the Strategy) which seeks to transition Queensland to a zero-waste society, where waste is avoided, reused and recycled to the greatest extent possible. The Strategy commits to the development of an Energy-from-Waste (EfW) Policy.
The EfW Policy seeks to:
support the vision of the Advance Queensla
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Single Use Plastic Items Consultation Regulatory Impact Statement
Local, state and national governments in Australia and around the world have identified that there are significant environmental, community and economic impacts associated with plastic in the environment. Although there is no comprehensive data available on the amount of single use plastic used in Queensland, it is reported that Australians use an estimated 10 million plastic straws per day.
The h
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Draft Queensland Organics Strategy 2022-2032
On 1 July 2019, the Queensland Government released the Waste Management and Resource Recovery Strategy (the Waste Strategy), which seeks to transition Queensland to a zero-waste society, where waste is avoided, reused and recycled to the greatest extent possible. The Waste Strategy identified that a material-specific action plan would be beneficial to improve the management of organic waste in Que
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Queensland Organics Strategy 2022–2032 and Action Plan 2022-2032
In July 2019, the Queensland Government released the Waste Management and Resource Recovery Strategy (the Waste Strategy), which seeks to transition Queensland to a zero-waste society, where waste is avoided, reused, and recycled to the greatest extent possible. The Waste Strategy identified that clear and progressive policy focusing on organic waste is required to improve the management of organi
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Waste Reduction Recycling Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2023
On 11 December 2021, the Queensland Government announced a 10-year $2.1 billion waste package, including a $1.1 billion Recycling and Jobs Fund.
Concurrently, announcements were made concerning changes to the waste levy zone and rate; adjustments to local government annual payment arrangements; removal of the clean earth waste levy exemption; and changes to the operational purposes exemption fram
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Waste Management Resource Recycling
Queensland’s Waste Management and Resource Recovery Strategy, released on 1 July 2019, identifies and prioritises end-of-life products and materials that would benefit from approaches to improve their management, including the preparation of an action plan. These priorities include e-waste, tyres, organics, plastics and textiles.
In 2019, an estimated 239,000 tonnes of e-products were placed on th
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