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Article: Fed: Clean up proves need for national container deposit system
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- AAP General News (Australia)
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- March 3, 2002
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Fed: Clean up proves need for national container deposit system
By Krystyna Pollard
SYDNEY, March 3 AAP - Clean Up Australia chairman Ian Kiernan believes
there are 2.1
million reasons why Australia should have a national drink container
deposit system.
They're the more than 2.1 million potentially recyclable beverage
containers collected
during today's Clean Up Australia Day efforts.
With beverage containers and cigarette butts dominating the tonnes
of rubbish collected
by hundreds of thousands of clean up volunteers around the country
today, Mr Kiernan said
a national deposit scheme would give people an incentive to recycle
their containers.
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