Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION (BEVERAGE CONTAINERS AND PLASTIC BAGS) ACT 2011 - SECT 10

    (1)     This Part establishes a container deposit scheme (the CDS ).

    (2)     The matters covered by the CDS to achieve the object of minimising environmental pollution in the ways mentioned in section 3(a)(i) and (ii) include the following:

        (a)     the prohibition of the supply in the Territory of regulated containers unless they are supplied by a CDS supplier and meet the following requirements:

            (i)     the material types of the containers (including the labels) are suitable for recycling or reuse;

            (ii)     the containers bear the approved refund marking;

            (iii)     the way the refund marking is applied to the containers is not likely to render the containers unsuitable for recycling or reuse;

            (iv)     the containers are the subject of a supplier arrangement to which the supplier is a party;

        (b)     the sorting, by operators of approved collection depots, of empty permitted containers of any beverage products:

            (i)     by material type; and

            (ii)     regardless of the product names displayed on the containers;

        (c)     the making of waste management arrangements between CDS participants that are appropriate for the CDS;

        (d)     the granting of CDS approvals and the imposition of conditions on those approvals;

        (da)     the registration of persons as CDS suppliers and the imposition of conditions on registration;

        (e)     the delivery, by any members of the community, of empty permitted containers to approved collection depots throughout the Territory for a refund of the refund amount for the containers;

        (f)     the acceptance by operators of approved collection depots of empty permitted containers delivered to the depots and the method of payment of refund amounts for the containers;

        (g)     the acceptance by CDS coordinators of empty permitted containers of any beverage products:

            (i)     delivered to the coordinators by operators of approved collection depots; and

            (ii)     sorted by the operators before delivery by material type, regardless of the product name displayed on the containers;

        (h)     the payments to be made by CDS coordinators to operators of approved collection depots in relation to empty permitted containers accepted by the coordinators.

    (3)     The CDS does not require beverage retailers to:

        (a)     accept delivery of empty containers; or

        (b)     pay the refund amount in exchange for delivered containers.

Note for subsection (3)

A beverage retailer may, however, obtain a collection approval to operate a collection depot, for example, a reverse vending machine at the retailer's premises for the payment of refund amounts for containers.