Extended producer responsibility, or EPR, is an environmental policy approach in which a producer's responsibility, physical and/or financial, for a product is extended to the post-consumer stage of a product's life cycle. In the paper Stewart Smith canvasses the application of EPR, including container deposit legislation, in efforts to reduce the volume of waste disposal...

If government programs aimed at reducing waste are to achieve their stated goal then they cannot continue to avoid the nexus between growing waste generation and rising consumption expenditure, argue Clive Hamilton, Richard Denniss and David Baker. Although highlighting the need to reduce and reuse will be more contentious than exhortations to recycle, such a...

The Federal Government is providing high income Australians with increasing amounts of 'well-off welfare'. This ACOSS analysis shows that six Government decisions over the past four years have added to a pie now worth $7.2 billion in unnecessary tax breaks and assistance that mainly goes to the top 20-25% of taxpayers.

One of the great challenges facing scientists, technologists,’ educationists and economists entering the 21st Century will be to produce innovative, constructive and effective responses to unprecedented demands for comprehensive and sustainable waste management strategies.