Colleen Hartland MLC - My adjournment matter is for the attention of the Minister for Environment and Climate Change. The South West Environment Action Group, based in Warrnambool, is presenting a week of recycling action for National Recycling Week this week. Tomorrow it will be hosting a recycling day on Civic Green in Warrnambool from 11.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. South West Environment Action Group is a small, non-funded, community-based organisation with a dozen or so active members.

Greens MLC Colleen Hartland has released a report that details the financial, social and environmental benefits of a 10c deposit on drink bottles, challenging the Victorian government position on the scheme.

"I commissioned this report to show that a 10c deposit system is not only good for the environment, but also makes sound financial sense. It takes the packaging industry spin, and unspins it"