Greenhouse Gas Abatement

One of the major issues impacting on / there is one major issue that must be overcome in order to access many of the market segments and that is transport and logistics. The transport of waste is especially costly and thus geographical locations play an integral role in market selection as customers are assumed to be reluctant to invest additional funds for transportation expenditure in order to use the SMRC’s recovery facilities. Points of parity points of difference

This reduces the potential market to industries within a maximum of 40km radius of the (Richard, maybe you might like to extend it to 50 or 70 km? 50 km is still a reasonable distance. Assuming the travel is an average of 70km/hour, it takes well below an hour. 70kms might be pushing it but it widens the potential targets)

Prepare a business plan to investigate the feasibility of building a second RRRC in the

Southern part of the region to service Kwinana and Rockingham. (Richard, I don’t think building a second RRRC is feasible at all, considering they are reluctant to even spend money on a solid marketing strategy or to offer waste transportation, which are only a fraction of the cost to build another facility. As far as I’m aware, they haven’t even completely paid off debts for this current facility and with it constantly losing money, it will actually not be sustainable in the long term unless something gets done)

Improve effectiveness by combining a levy with other options, such as:

• ban particular wastes to landfill

• extended producer responsibility (EPR)

• material deposits e.g. container deposits

• artificially increase demand for recycled materials through a mandatory procurement policy

• remove institutional barriers to investment and market development

• consumer perceptions regarding recycled materials

• strengthen enforcement of standards and regulations

• impose levy at source of waste – e.g. unit based charges for households;

• underwrite investment in infrastructure...