2018-06-27 SM - Attachment 1 to Item 2 - Directions Paper Transforming Queensland's Recycling & Waste Industry

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       2.2 Other notable progress

       2.2.1 Litter and illegal dumping
       According to the National Litter Index1, between 2008 and 2016, the number of littered items and the volume of
       litter reported for Queensland decreased by 28 per cent and 52 per cent respectively. In 2016, retail precincts
       recorded the highest number of littered items while beaches and industrial precincts were found to have the
       greatest volume of litter. Cigarette litter (butts and packaging) accounted for 43 per cent of the littered items, while
       beverage containers were responsible for 41 per cent of the total litter volume.

       The factors responsible for the reduction in litter and illegal dumping are not immediately clear. The implementation
       of the Litter Plan and the Love Queensland - Let's Keep It Clean campaign are likely to have played a role in the
       declining trend, but the specific contribution cannot be quantified at this time.




       Figure 3: Litter in Queensland


       2.3 Projects and policy initiatives
       The department has implemented or commenced implementation of several projects and policy initiatives under the
       Strategy, as listed in Table 2. As the majority of initiatives are pilot projects or still in progress, it is not possible to
       quantify their potential contributions to the targets of the Strategy; rather, each initiative is described in Appendix 2.

       Table 2: Project and policy initiatives under the Strategy
        Objective                                Project or initiative
                                                    Love Queensland. Let's keep it clean (in progress)
        Driving cultural change                     Container refund scheme (CRS) (in progress)
                                                    Introduction of a plastic bag ban (in progress)
        Avoidance and minimisation                  Government policy on balloon releases (in progress)
                                                    Sugarcane fertiliser bag recycling trial (completed)
                                                    Organic waste recycling trial (completed)
                                                    Emergency lighting batteries stewardship (in progress)
                                                    Power tool battery recycling trial (completed)
        Reuse, recovery and recycling
                                                    Tyre recycling demonstration project (in progress)
                                                    National market development study for end-of-life tyres (in progress)
                                                    Coffee cup recycling trial (completed)
                                                    Biofutures waste review (completed)
                                                    Regulated waste framework review (in progress)
                                                    Waste-related environmentally relevant activities framework review (in progress)
                                                    End of waste framework (in progress)
        Management, treatment and
                                                    Online waste tracking (completed)
        disposal
                                                    Landfill disposal bans (in progress)
                                                    Queensland Waste Infrastructure Project (in progress)
                                                    Operation TORA (in progress)



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         The National Litter Index (NLI) published by Keep Australia Beautiful, measures the number and volume of litter items across specific sites in
       Australia as surveyed during November and May each year. In Queensland, the NLI measures litter across 151 sites (beaches, car parks,
       highways, industrial sites, recreational parks, residential sites, retail sites, and shopping centres) covering an area of 224,004 square metres.



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