The Australian Government has published its priority list of products to be considered for accreditation or regulation under the Product Stewardship Act.
The priority list for 2014-15 is almost the same as the previous year’s list:
– Waste architectural and decorative paint
– End-of-life batteries
– Packaging (and subsets of packaging, such as consumer packaging and beverage packaging)
– End-of-life air conditioners with small gas charges
– End-of-life refrigerators with small gas charges.
Note: The 2013-2014 list included ‘End-of-life batteries less than 2kg’. Consideration of possible product stewardship approaches by the Battery Implementation Working Group has expanded the scope to ‘End-of-life batteries less than 5kg’ and this class of products is listed for 2014-2015.