Container Return Scheme: Producers’ Free Pass Ends

Promoting his Private Member’s Bill to introduce a beverage Container Return Scheme for New Zealand today, NZ First MP Jamie Arbuckle says “More than 2 billion beverage containers are used by Kiwis every year and far too many end up in our rivers, beaches, and landfills. Ratepayers have been footing the bill for decades while producers get a free pass.”

Container Return Scheme puts the cost back where it belongs

Zero Waste Aotearoa agree and are pleased Jamie Arbuckle is giving a Container Return Scheme for New Zealand a clear champion in Parliament.

Now it needs to get out of the biscuit tin

As a Private Member’s Bill, the Bill goes into the ballot system and would go into Parliament for a first reading if it is drawn from the ‘biscuit tin’.