New Infringement and Exemption Rules for Beverage Containers and Plastic Bags
Environment Protection (Beverage Containers and Plastic Bags) Legislation Amendment (Expansion of CDS and Other Matters) Bill 2025
Topics
beverage containers container deposit scheme environmental protection plastic bags waste management
Introduced by: The Hon Joshua Burgoyne MLA (CLP)
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The Debate
What different members said when this bill was debated:
Joshua Burgoyne CLP
“Madam Speaker, I present a Bill titled the Environment Protection (Beverage Containers and Plastic Bags) Legislation Amendment (Expansion of CDS and Other Matters) Bill 2025, Serial 37, and table the explanatory statement. I move that the Bill be now read a first time.”
Manuel Brown ALP
“Madam Speaker, I join my colleagues in speaking on the Environment Protection (Beverage Containers and Plastic Bags) Legislation Amendment (Expansion of CDS and Other Matters) Bill 2025--finally, an environment-related Bill from the CLP government that I can support. The Northern Territory Container Deposit Scheme, originally known as Cash for Containers, was introduced four years ago under Labor.”
Andrew Mackay CLP
“Madam Speaker, it is my pleasure to speak in support of the Environment Protection (Beverage Containers and Plastic Bags) Legislation Amendment (Expansion of CDS and Other Matters) Bill 2025. That is quite a mouthful.”
Clinton Howe CLP
“Madam Speaker, I am happy to speak on the Northern Territory Container Deposit Scheme. This is another measure for environmental conservatism that I think will greatly benefit the Northern Territory. It adds to the growing list of historic CLP achievements in this space. As a CLP government we can be quite proud of the environmental parks we have created.”
Chanston Paech ALP
“Madam Speaker, it is important to talk about this Bill. I acknowledge that the Member for Drysdale thanked a number of people, but I want to thank the person who made this happen: former minister and Member for Stuart, Karl Hampton. He brought in the Container Deposit Scheme in 2011.”
Matthew Kerle CLP
“Madam Speaker, the Member for Gwoja sniped me. I was going back into the history of this Act to say that, yes, Labor minister Karl Hampton introduced the original Bill in 2010. Well done; you beat me to it. People often ask me, `Are there any good Labor policies that you support?”
Oly Carlson CLP
“Madam Speaker, I strongly support the Environment Protection (Beverage Containers and Plastic Bags) Legislation Amendment (Expansion of CDS and Other Matters) Bill 2025.”
“Madam Speaker, unlike previous speakers, I will talk about the Bill and its intent, because I think that is why we are here. I often hear that we are here to pass good laws. This is a good law. I commend the minister and his agency for all the work they did to bring this Bill before us.”