A product stewardship scheme recognises that the businesses who place products on the market are responsible for the entire life of that product - from design, through to reuse, recycling and end of life. We already have many stewardship schemes in Australia including ‘Mobile Muster’ which addresses mobile phone waste, ‘Cartridges for Planet Ark’, which is a national scheme for printer cartridges and many other schemes from plastics, containers and mattresses through to tyres, batteries and oil.