Talk:Container deposit legislation in Australia

Hi I have just inserted a line about the naming of the Scheme Administrator for NSW, and mentioned there is some controversy about appointing these beverage companies to the role, since some of them have vigorously fought the introduction of CDL in the past. cheers — Preceding unsigned comment added by Creativecat001 (talk • contribs) 03:51, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

Rescinded Victorian legislation
When was this legislation rescinded? Is it possible that this was a CDL scheme not legislated by the government at all, but a scheme set up by the bottlers themselves? I do remember it being discussed in the early to mid 1980s but not sure exactly when. reinthal (talk) 16:55, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

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Soft drink and other beverage bottles were still collected in Queensland and returned for deposits up to the late 1960s.
I was in primary school in western Brisbane from 1971 to 1978, started riding a bike in 1973 and distinctly remember us riding around the construction sites collecting bottles to cash in the deposit. To wit, the comment above (Soft drink and other beverage bottles were still collected in Queensland and returned for deposits up to the late 1960s.) needs a citation and not least because it's inaccurate. I am pulling my hair out trying to remember how much the cash back on a soft drink bottle was, because I can't shake the 20c figure. Of course that sounds far too high and perhaps I have a distorted recollection of 2c? I really can't be sure, and all the more reason for finding a good citation here. This is still in living memory and quite possibly, if it was not a legislated deposit scheme but industry driven (because glass bottles had sufficient value) that the written record is meager if extant, but plenty of people who lived through that era are still around and some may have better recollections than I.

Poking around briefly on-line I find one reference that agrees on timing (Penny Sharpe):

https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/Hansard/Pages/HansardResult.aspx#/docid/HANSARD-1820781676-71428/link/50

Which is in the NSW Hansard and suggests like Queensland NSW also was still refunding money for empty bottles in the 1970s.

And Stacey, Duggan seems to recall 10c (footnote 27):

https://haveyoursay.cassowarycoast.qld.gov.au/3193/documents/5875

Bwechner (talk) 07:16, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

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