At one stage Waimakariri District Council was offering 17,500 people a choice of 48 different permutations for their rubbish collection services. Council’s solid waste asset manager Kitty Waghorn tracks the long trail of consultation in search of a new waste collection service. She was speaking at the WasteMINZ Conference in...
New government signals higher priority for waste and recycling issues. Paul Evans, chief executive, Waste Management Institute New Zealand.
As we look forward to 2018, there is an air of excitement and positivity amongst local government waste and recycling professionals.
This optimism is in large part driven by the inclusion of key...
The waste minimisation landscape in New Zealand is complex and topical, with efforts being made to reduce waste to landfill across the country. Wellington Institute of Technology’s Joany Grima and Leanne Nicholas have just completed a study providing a detailed account of waste minimisation measures implemented at festivals.
This...
Many councils have reached a tipping point at which they must take a long hard look at both the economic and environmental costs of how they structure their rubbish collections. Duncan Wilson, director of Eunomia Research & Consulting (NZ), explains.
In the minds of many, a council’s job is to deal with the three ‘Rs’ –...
Three big-ticket items will dominate councils’ waste minimisation agendas this year.
Paul Evans, Chief Executive, Waste Management Institute New Zealand
With the confluence of a number of key pieces of independent work as well as legislative requirements, 2017 is set to be an eventful year for the local government sector when it...
