Hon DAVID PARKER: About two and a half billion drink containers are sold every year in New Zealand. Less than half of these containers are recycled, meaning that over a billion containers end up as litter, is stockpiled, or is sent to landfills every year. With a container return scheme, we can increase our recycling for beverage containers to between 85 percent and 90 percent. People will return empty drink containers in exchange for a refundable deposit. This will also increase the supply of recovered materials for our onshore recycling system and for our container manufacturers, and it will also help sustainably underpin the economics of many community recycling facilities.