Gill Prentice

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Carrying the can – Who pays for waste? Waste Management

Carrying the can – Who pays for waste?

Marlborough District Council is looking at the opportunities for waste and cost reduction through product stewardship. Alec McNeil says the larger question is, who should pay? Like other territorial authorities, Marlborough District Council (MDC) is required by law to promote effective and efficient waste management and minimisation...
IOBY – In Our Back Yards Planning

IOBY – In Our Back Yards

US crowdfunding initiative IOBY is the antithesis of NIMBYism. It looks for the positive in communities, one tiny project at a time. What’s more, it may tap into much deeper currents to help build civic participation and long-term community resilience. Ruth Le Pla reports. After September 11 in New York, nonprofit organisation New...
NZ Local Government magazine (February 2018) Archives on Partica Platform

NZ Local Government magazine (February 2018)

February 2018 edition Strength in numbers – Regional Software Holding's collaboration model … Auckland's City Rail Link – Connectus update on the twin-tunnel underground rail link … Urban housing – Harrison Grierson: New thinking on water & wastewater infrastructure … Organic waste collections – Tonkin &...
Diary of a contractor: Auckland's City Rail Link Construction

Diary of a contractor: Auckland's City Rail Link

The Connectus Joint Venture team is delivering Contract 2 for City Rail Link Limited. The City Rail Link (CRL) creates a 3.45 kilometre twin-tunnel rail link up to 42 metres below Auckland’s city centre. Contract 2 represents about 10 percent of this project and involves the construction of rail tunnels within the Albert Street road...
The UK and Australian approach to organic waste collections Technical Briefings

The UK and Australian approach to organic waste collections

This paper, The UK and Australian approach to organic waste collections, was presented at the WasteMINZ annual conference in Hamilton. By Chris Purchas & Anna Ainsworth from Tonkin + Taylor. INTRODUCTION Councils in New Zealand are in the early stages of developing separate food waste collections. There is a history of green and...
NZ Local Government Magazine (December 2017) Archives on Partica Platform

NZ Local Government Magazine (December 2017)

December 2017 edition Hearty appetite for change – Councils' urgent need for new recipes ... The city of Vancouver – Count down to zero waste by 2040 ... The cost of growth – Interim growth changes, anyone? ... Just add Mauri – Water-sensitive design meets tikanga Maori ... How Hawera got a new heart – Inside the town centre...
NZ Local Government Magazine (November 2017) Archives on Partica Platform

NZ Local Government Magazine (November 2017)

November 2017 edition Localism the Swiss way – Why New Zealand needs more, yes more, councils ... Citycare Water – A contractor's view ... Love festivals / Hate waste – Lessons on litter ... Age-friendly communities – Six councils' solutions ... Technical Briefings – Auckland's Central Interceptor ...
NZ Local Government Magazine (October 2017) Archives on Partica Platform

NZ Local Government Magazine (October 2017)

October 2017 edition Opening doors to China – What's the role of councils? ... LGNZ president Dave Cull – On knobs and knockers ... Timaru's award-winning district wide wastewater strategy ... Placemaking in New York – Comnunity gardens in the Bronx ... Let the technocrats rule – What could possibly go wrong ...
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