Sustainable Agriculture Capital Grant Scheme (SACGS)

Nearly 50 years after South Australians were able to receive a partial refund for recycling bottles and cans, Tasmania is finally catching up.  Key points: Tasmania’s container refund scheme is set to begin operating in the first half of 2023.  Under the scheme, consumers will receive a 10-cent refund for every eligible container they recycle through a refund point.  The location of refund points will be determined in coming months.  Previously promised to be introduced in 2022, Tasmania’s container refund scheme is now set to come in during the first half of 2023.  Drink containers are one of the most commonly littered items in Tasmania, with a survey conducted in 2018 finding they made up about 45 per cent of litter in the state, by volume.  The state government hopes the incoming container refund scheme will reduce that.  Tasmania’s scheme will look very similar to other states’ schemes, as the aim is for a nationally consistent approach.

Today our societies face great challenges with water, in terms of both quantity and quality, but many of these challenges have already existed in the past. Focusing on Asia, Water Societies and Technologies from the Past and Present seeks to highlight the issues that emerge or re-emerge across different societies and periods, and asks what they can tell us about water sustainability. Incorporating cutting-edge research and pioneering field surveys on past and present water management practices, the interdisciplinary contributors together identify how societies managed water resource challenges and utilised water in ways that allowed them to evolve, persist, or drastically alter their environment.