Older rooftop solar systems are being scrapped – often well before the end of their useful life. Establishing a product stewardship scheme is part of the solution.
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Australia can boast that it leads the world in animal welfare practices. A ban on live exports will more animals being shipped from nations with lower standards.
As the energy revolution gains pace, huge numbers of PV panels are already going to landfill. Many are still usable and even those that aren’t contain valuable materials that shouldn’t be discarded.
Producer responsibility is increasingly being used to deal with the environmental costs of production. It can also be used to deal with social issues.
In Australia alone, it’s estimated up to 8.9 billion butts are littered each year. A new report finds a mandatory product stewardship scheme can cut this by around half.
China new cleanliness standards for the recyclable materials it imports are so stringent that they are tantamount to a total ban. Australian councils are now in crisis mode as the rubbish piles up.
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Senior Research Fellow, BehaviourWorks Australia, Monash University
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Associate Professor, University of Sydney Business School, University of Sydney
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Professor of Waste Management, The University of Queensland
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Professor and Dean of the School of Fashion and Textiles, RMIT, RMIT University
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Director, NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame and ARC Future Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management & Logistics, Curtin University
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Research Principal, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
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