Managed Sustainability Solutions
Each liable party will be expected to become a member of an approved arrangement or ‘product stewardship organisation’ by the membership census date. In 2011-12, the census date is 1 April 2012.
Liable Parties are companies who supply televisions and computer equipment into the Australian market and are typically manufacturers, OEMs, brands and importers of new equipment. Liable parties will be required to be a member of a Government-approved co-regulatory arrangement. Under the Act, substantial civil penalties apply to a liable party that fails to become a member of an approved arrangement.
A threshold will be applied to exclude corporations that import or manufacture less than a specified volume in order to limit the impact of the Scheme on small business. Import tariff codes will be used to identify specific product categories to be covered by the Scheme. Enforceable recycling targets will be set and the Australian Government is expecting a recycling rate of 80% in eight years.
Australia’s Leading Industry E-Waste Collection and Recycling Initiative
In addition to our program management of the MobileMuster service, Infoactiv Group is now working closely with the Australia and New Zealand Recycling Platform (ANZRP) to help deliver the industry leading television and computer recycling program on behalf of brands, OEMs and importers. ANZRP Limited is a not-for-profit, industry run member body estbalished to provide its members with a lean, sustainable arrangement to meet liability under the Product Stewardship Act and Regulations. ANZRP will operate a national e-waste collection and recycling program, to commence in July 2012 providing free drop-off for householders and small business across Australia.
ANZRP has selected Infoactiv Group to program manage its collection, logistics and recycling activities. This choice provides transparency and independence of logistics and recyclers through the use of a multi-party supplier pool operated by an independent organisation with extensive experience in e-waste management solutions.
Working Closely with Local Government Across Australia
Infoactiv Group is working closely with ANZRP to identify and assess collection points and partners across metropolitan, regional and remote Australia. While the initial focus is on partnering with local government, ANZRP and Infoactiv are also working with retail groups and other stakeholders to ensure that the ‘reasonable access’ requirements under the Product Stewardship (Televisions and Computers) Regulations are effectively met.
As the leading industry-led program, ANZRP, provides a fundamental boost to ensuring that the Government’s Scheme is successful.
We are currently in the process of inviting local councils and other potential collection partners to consider nominating as an ANZRP collection partner/point. This involves a step-wise process and some self-assessment against the Interim Industry Standard on Collection, Transport and Recycling of End-of-Life Televisions and Computers.
For more detail about this process and how councils can participate, download a copy of the ANZRP Collection Partner Information Sheet and Nomination Form. This document explains an uncomplicated process for your local council to nominate as an ANZRP collection partner. Your feedback is welcome, and we invite councils to take a pro-active approach and contact ANZRP or Infoactiv to discuss the process. Get involved today and make contact.
We encourage you and your organisation to review the ANZRP Collection Partner Information Sheet and Nomination Form and consider becoming an ANZRP-designated collection partner/point at your earliest convenience. Don’t hesitate to make contact should you have any specific questions or require assistance to work through the Nomination Form.
Informed Independent Advice
If you need independent advice and implementation solutions, then Infoactiv Group has the industry experience to support your activities under the National Television and Computer Recycling Scheme and associated Regulations.
Our Managed Sustainability Solutions helps organisations to design and deliver cost effective programs which reduces wastes, and diverts end-of-life products from landfill by recycling products and materials in an environmentally sound manner. This is undertaken in accordance with certified systems and processes.
Managed Sustainability Solutions is more than just product and material waste collection and recycling. It’s about implementing end to end integrated solutions that helps organisations to manage their supply chain and eliminate or minimise waste in a systematic and environmentally sound manner. For organisations to maximise resource recovery and product stewardship outcomes it is important that they implement community and business-friendly product reuse and recycling services.
Managed Sustainability brings waste avoidance and resource recovery into a new paradigm of overall product sustainability rather than aiming to merely ‘recycle’.
Under this key offering, the Infoactiv team manages all aspects of customers’ end of life product recycling and asset disposition requirements, through a centralised, integrated and flexible management solution to the customer. This end to end offering is best achieved by using an independent supply chain provider that has the technology, expertise and flexible network to deliver results and protect the customer overall risk.
The Infoactiv Group offers Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) program and scheme management for various OEMs, associations and Product Stewardship Organisations (PSOs) for the collection of all types of waste, including electronic waste or ‘eWaste’ – which is the fastest growing waste stream. This also represents a key component of Infoactiv’s product take-back efforts in government, business, education and consumer markets. Infoactiv also has the capacity to measure, manage and minimise carbon emissions across the supply chain.
Infoactiv’s core competency involves the operation and management of a multi vendor, multi channel network to deliver the BEST cost / service / carbon outcome across our customers’ product take back programs. This offering is underpinned by our LOGINET technology combined with the help desk, to effectively track and manage all associated activities by end-users and facilitate stakeholder liaison. The LOGINET technology is also used to manage all logistics, downstream recycling, end to end reporting, billing and ongoing analysis requirements.
The LOGINET system also ensures that records are kept to assist with proper validation and compliance and that system case tracking is performed across the critical path and for all key reporting milestones.
More information
Make contact today and let’s talk about how Infoactiv can support your programs and regulatory compliance requirements. We deliver innovative compliance solutions that are business oriented and environmentally accountable.
Use our toll free number: 1800 111 399 or email your inquiry to: ewaste@infoactiv.com.au
