Posted by AUSTRALIA’S growing waste problem has Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett on the back foot in finding a solution.
Mr Garrett said suggestions from a report presented to him on Wednesday by environmental coalition group the Boomerang Alliance, which called for a national waste policy, would be considered as a future solution.
“I believe that we’ve got the opportunity to do something constructive and positive here which hasn’t been done before,” he told ABC Radio recently.
“But we are going to have to have a really thorough and what I expect to be a pretty engaged discussion about that when we sit down in Perth.”
Technology was beginning to become a waste problem with Total Environment Centre director and Boomerang Alliance member Jeff Angel said electronic waste, like televisions and computers, needed to be dealt with urgently.
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