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A UNSW SMaRT Centre government submission urging more robust recycling arrangements for electronic waste has featured in a new report by the Total Environment Centre entitled "Battery Recycling Crisis".
The TEC report contains "an urgent plan to confront the waste battery crisis and ... emphasises the critical need for immediate regulatory intervention to establish a comprehensive, mandatory Product Stewardship Scheme (PSS) ... (to) facilitate the safe collection, recycling, and re-use of all battery types."
It quotes from SMaRT's 2023 submission to the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water's regulation of e-products ‘Wired for Change’ discussion paper.
Read SMaRT's submission for the "Regulation of e-products ‘Wired for Change’ discussion paper"