Lift recycling rate - industry told.(Brief Article)

Australasian Business Intelligence, April, 2005

Apr 14, 2005 (Environmental & Science Update - ABIX via COMTEX)

John Thwaites, Victoria's Environment Minister, has called on the mobile telephone industry to recycle more handsets and batteries. He said that a recycling program introduced in 2000 by the Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association had little impact on the recycling rate in the industry. The minister proposed to introduce an incentive for telephone owners, who would receive $A5 in cash when they returned a telephone to a retail outlet.

Publication Date: 8 April 2005

VICTORIA.  DEPT OF INNOVATION, 
      INDUSTRY AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: 
AUSTRALIAN MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS 
      ASSOCIATION 
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