On 22 September 2014, the Australian Government Minister for the Environment the Hon Greg Hunt asked the Department of the Environment (the Department) to review the operation of the National Television and Computer Recycling Scheme (NTCRS), to ensure it continues to support a shared approach by commonwealth, state and territory governments and industry on e-waste management. The Australian Government established the scheme in 2011, on behalf of state and territory governments and the television and computer industries. The NTCRS has a ten-year roll-out schedule starting in 2012–13, at the end of which the television and computer industries will be required to fund the recycling of 80 per cent of the televisions and computers that enter the waste stream in Australia each year. Now in its third target year, the NTCRS has proven an effective vehicle for industry to efficiently deliver high quality environmental outcomes. The television and computer industries have funded the recycling of over 100,000 tonnes of e-waste since May 2012, more than doubling the annual rate of e-waste recycling in Australia. More Australians in metropolitan, regional and remote areas now have access to free recycling of their old televisions and computers. While the NTCRS has been a success, there are issues more broadly with e-waste anagement in Australia. These include unmet demand for e-waste recycling in many communities, and instability in the e-waste sector. Stakeholders have pointed to heightened business risk, including for some social and disability enterprises, along with concerns that market conditions will not support the recycling capacity that will be needed to meet scheme recycling targets as targets start to increase more rapidly over the coming years. The NTCRS is not able or designed to address all changes in the e-waste recycling market, but all stakeholders have an interest in ensuring its settings are the most appropriate to deliver its outcomes sustainably and efficiently. The review will consider the need to adjust the scheme’s operational settings, including metrics that govern its interaction with the e-waste recycling market. These metrics were developed based on modelling undertaken during the scheme’s development. They embody assumptions about such things as the weight of television and computer products imported, the rate at which television and computer products enter the waste stream, the rate at which business and the community take up opportunities to recycle e-waste and the rate at which our national capacity to recycle e-waste can grow to meet future demand while avoiding unwanted environmental and health and safety outcomes.