Editing Environmentally friendly (section)

=== Oceania ===
The Energy Rating Label is a Type III label<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.energyrating.gov.au/man1.html |work=Energy Rating Label |title=Overview of Regulatory Requirements - Labelling and MEPS |access-date=10 July 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070701234814/http://www.energyrating.gov.au/man1.html |archive-date=1 July 2007 }}</ref><ref name="Type III">{{cite journal |author1=Arnaud Bizard |author2=Brett Lee |author3=Karen Puterrman |title=AWARE and Environmental Labeling Programs: One Step Closer to a Sustainable Economy |url= http://www.cmu.edu/me/ddl/AWARE/AWARE-Labeling-Report-ME589-2004.pdf|id=ME 589 |access-date=10 July 2007 }}</ref> that provides information on "energy service per unit of energy consumption".<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.energyrating.gov.au/star.html |work=Energy Rating Label |title=Overview of how are star ratings calculated? |access-date=10 July 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070713095412/http://www.energyrating.gov.au/star.html |archive-date=13 July 2007 }}</ref> It was first created in 1986, but negotiations led to a redesign in 2000.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.energyrating.gov.au/con3.html |work=Energy Rating Label |title=The Energy Label |access-date=10 July 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070713103618/http://www.energyrating.gov.au/con3.html |archive-date=13 July 2007 }}</ref>

Oceania generates the second most e-waste, 16.1&nbsp;kg, while having the third lowest recycling rate of 8.8%.<ref>{{cite journal | doi=10.3390/met11081313 | doi-access=free | title=E-Waste Recycling and Resource Recovery: A Review on Technologies, Barriers and Enablers with a Focus on Oceania | journal=Metals | date=August 2021 | volume=11 | issue=8 | page=1313 | last1=Van Yken | first1=Jonovan | last2=Boxall | first2=Naomi J. | last3=Cheng | first3=Ka Yu | last4=Nikoloski | first4=Aleksandar N. | last5=Moheimani | first5=Navid R. | last6=Kaksonen | first6=Anna H. }}</ref> Out of Oceania, only Australia has a policy in policy to manage e-waste, that being the Policy Stewardship Act published in 2011 that aimed to manage the impact of products, mainly those in reference to the disposal of products and their waste.<ref>{{cite web|title=Review of the Product Stewardship Act 2011|url=https://www.dcceew.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/product-stewardship-act-review.pdf}}</ref> Under the Act the National Television and Computer Recycling Scheme (NTCRS) was created, which forced manufactures and importers of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) importing 5000 or more products or 15000 or more peripherals be liable and required to pay the NTCRS for retrieving and recycling materials from electronic products.

New Zealand does not have any law that directly manages their e-waste, instead they have voluntary product stewardship schemes such as supplier trade back and trade-in schemes and voluntary recycling drop-off points. Though this has helped it costs the provider money with labor taking up 90% of the cost of recycling. In addition, e-waste is currently not considered a priority product, which would encourage the enforcement of product stewardship. In [[Pacific Island Regions]] (PIR), e-waste management is a hard task since they lack the adequate amount of land to properly dispose of it even though they produce one of the lowest amounts of e-waste in the world due to their income and population. Due to this there are large stockpiles of waste unable to be recycled safely.

Currently, The Secretariat of the [[Pacific Regional Environment Programme]] (SPREP), an organization in charge of managing the natural resources and environment of the Pacific region, is in charge of region coordination and managing the e-waste of the Oceania region.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sprep.org/about-us | title=About Us &#124; Pacific Environment }}</ref> SPREP uses Cleaner Pacific 2025 as a framework to guide the various governments in the region.<ref>{{cite web|title=Cleaner Pacific 2025. Pacific Regional Waste and Pollution Management Strategy
|url=https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/commitments/1326_7636_commitment_cleaner-pacific-strategy-2025.pdf|website=un.org
|access-date=26 September 2023}}</ref> They also work with PacWaste (Pacific Hazardous Waste) to identify and resolve the different issues with waste management of the islands, which largely stem from the lack of government enforcement and knowledge on the matter.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sprep.org/what-pacwaste | title=What is Pacwaste? &#124; Pacific Environment }}</ref> They have currently proposed a mandatory product stewardship policy be put in place along with an advance recycling fee which would incentivize local and industrial recycling. They are also in the mindset that the islands should collaborate and share resources and experience to assist in the endeavor.

With the help from the NTCRS, though the situation has improved they have been vocal about the responsibilities of stakeholders in the situation and how they need to be more clearly defined. In addition to there being a differences in state and federal regulations, with only Southern Australia, Australian Capital Territory, and Victoria having banned e-waste landfill, it would be possible to make this apply the rest of the region if a federal decision was made. They have also advocated for reasonable access to collection points for waste, with there being only one collection point within a 100&nbsp;km radius in some cases. It has been shown that the reason some residents do not recycle is because of their distance from a collection point. In addition, there have been few campaigns to recycle, with the company, Mobile Muster, a voluntary collection program managed by the Australian Mobile Telecommunication Association, aimed to collect phones before they went to a landfill and has been doing so since 1999. Upon further study, it was found that only 46% of the public was award of the program, which later increased to 74% in 2018, but this was after an investment of $45 million from the Australian Mobile Telecommunication Association.