Headline economic value for waste and materials efficiency in Australia

The Department of the Environment and Energy has commissioned the Centre for International Economics (CIE) and its partners (Blue Environment and Envisage Works) to develop and test a method to produce headline economic values related to waste, recycling and the efficient use of materials in the Australian economy at national and state/territory scales.

This report presents findings and results for:

the volume of wastes generated, treated and disposed in Australia;
the size of the waste management services activity in Australia from the economic profiling of the industries; and
the potential benefits of increasing the recovery rate and improving materials efficiency estimated using the CIE-REGIONS model, a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of the Australian economy.

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