The Palaszczuk Government has commissioned the Queensland Productivity Commission (QPC) to analyse the price impacts on beverages in the first year of the container refund scheme.
Minister for Environment Leeanne Enoch says the QPC will monitor and report on prices of a number of beverages to ensure that beverage companies are acting fairly and that prices are in line with the costs of the scheme.
Ms Enoch says it has been six months since the start of Containers for Change and it’s been wonderful to see so many Queenslanders jump on board with this recycling initiative, which has seen more than 440 million containers returned and more than 630 jobs created so far.