NSW Farmers Association - Priority Issue 4

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Ian McColl
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Andrew Forrest
Alan Brown
Peter Darley

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4. DrumMUSTER uptake in NSW

drumMUSTER is the national program for the collection and recycling of empty, cleaned, non returnable crop production and on-farm animal health chemical containers.

drumMUSTER provides members of the Association with a defined route to safely dispose of used chemical containers.

The National Farmers Federation (NFF), CropLife Australia, Animal Health Alliance (Australia), (CropLife & Animal Health Alliance formerly Avcare), VMDA and the Australian Local Government Association (ALGA) have together developed the initiative as the solution to the safe collection and recycling of cleaned chemical containers.

drumMUSTER is the single biggest environmental program ever undertaken jointly by farmers/chemical users, Local Government and the Crop Production and Animal Health Industries.

The Association supports the program and as an NFF member actively promotes this industry stewardship initiative. Two recent reports by the Expert Reference Group set up by NSW DEC have questioned the efficiency and performance of the program and called for improvements to be made to reporting on uptake.

The key objectives for this priority area are:

• Promote uptake of the program by members of the Association in NSW.
• Monitor DEC’s view on the increase or otherwise of uptake.

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4. DrumMUSTER uptake in NSW