Waste not, want not: Levying Queensland recycling and waste strategy

The Queensland Government has released a Directions Paper "Transforming Queensland's Recycling and Waste Industry", announcing the development of a more comprehensive waste management strategy (the Strategy). At the heart of the Strategy is a levy attaching to the disposal of waste.

Key aims of the Strategy include:

• the re-introduction of a Waste Disposal Levy (the levy);
• moving Queensland towards a circular economy by reinvesting proceeds from the levy into other waste and recycling initiatives;
• deterring dumping of interstate waste in Queensland; and
• ensuring there is no direct impact on Queensland households.

The Strategy will be informed by:

• the Recycling and Waste Management Stakeholder Advisory Group comprised of peak body representatives from industry, local government and the housing and business sectors which will, among other things, advise on the implementation of the levy;