ADVOCACY & EDUCATION

PRODUCT STEWARDSHIP

As a key advocate in the product stewardship sector, ANZRP creates awareness of the importance of managing a product’s environmental impact throughout all stages of its life cycle, including end of life. Product stewardship is an environmental management strategy that means whoever designs, produces, sells, or uses a product takes a share of responsibility for minimising its environmental impact.

WE SHOULD ALL BE PRODUCT STEWARDS

ANZRP works closely with other sustainability organisations such as Planet Ark and other product stewardship programs such as Mobile Muster and Cartridges 4 Planet Ark to raise public and business awareness of the importance of recycling. 

E-WASTE — THE FASTEST GROWING WASTE STREAM IN THE WORLD

In Australia, e-waste is growing three times faster than any other type of waste. So what happens to our end-of-life computers and TVs? We don’t want them ending up in landfill where we will lose the valuable resources, such as copper, steel and aluminium that they contain or where they can negatively impact our environment.

Part of ANZRP’s vision is to create a community which collects, processes and safely recycles e-waste for responsible environmental outcomes. We do this by offering a free and simple way for Australians to safely recycle their e-waste, via our TechCollect e-waste recycling service. Find out where your nearest TechCollect site is to drop off your unwanted e-waste here.

We only partner with recyclers who operate to the highest Australian environmental and work, health and safety standards. We ensure a high recovery rate of the materials recycled.

We consistently represent our members in product stewardship advocacy, and are advocating for the expansion of products in scope under the NTCRS, which currently requires TVs, printers, computers and accessories to be recycled. You can view our White Paper here.

ANZRP ANNUAL REPORTS

To find out more about our recent activities, download our Annual Reports below.

RESOURCES

GOVERNMENT FACT SHEETS

The following Fact Sheets have been developed by the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) to assist in better understanding the Recycling and Waste Reduction (Product Stewardship – Televisions and Computers) Rules 2021 and the National Television and Computer Recycling Scheme (NTCRS).

FURTHER INFORMATION