Article: Fed: Clean up proves need for national container deposit system

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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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