New Zealand’s Plastics NZ had accepted the release from Hon Eugenie Sage on the plan to fund recycling infrastructure by the Government and maneuvering into more standardised curbside/kerbside collections. The company is one of the many organizations working with many groups to develop solutions to the country’s waste issues. The NZ’s government is planning to fund the upgrade of seven high-tech recycling plants nationwide, from Canterbury to Northland as a portion of a long-term and wider plan to reduce the rubbish volume filling up New Zealand’s landfills. Eugenie Sage, Associate Minister for the Environment added that the government is opening its door to recommendations and reports on how the standardised curbside recycling will work.
Being a part of the $124 million fund the government previously announced, the investment of $36.7 million and implementation of the recommendation of curbside collection will help the recycling infrastructure improvement and materials recovery. The investment on high-technology optical sorters are also designed to a safer workspace and accelerate the sorting process in separate different materials, such as plastics and papers, and will give benefit in recovering more usable and valuable materials and significantly reduce the volume of rubbish ending up inside the landfills. The investments are also going along with other initiatives as expanding and increased waste levy, also designing a scheme of container return for beverage.
The following sites have been on allocated funding to revamp its Material Recovery Facilities; Auckland Council’s Auckland Materials Recovery Facility; Plasback collection facilities in Northland, Bay of Plenty and Canterbury; EcoCentral’s Christchurch facility; Smart Environmental’s facilities at Thames and new Napier facility; and EnviroWaste Services Limited located in New Plymouth facility and a new Hamilton facility.
The report titled ‘Standardising kerbside collections in Aotearoa’ prepared by WasteMINZ and Sunshine Yates Consulting for the Ministry of Environment had been released this week, incorporating the recommendations of collected kerbside materials are standardized for domestic kerbside recycling collections over the country such as metal, glass, paper, plastics 1,2 and 5, also cardboard. Compiling standard groups of materials and the collaborative approach between local and central government is the nearest first-step on the sector and councils can do while appreciating the councils on their local context and existing manageable services. The next step for the action is roadmap development to implement the report’s recommendation, Eugenie added. Plastics NZ determined to collaborating further with the waste industry and the government with these initiatives to safeguarding that the outcomes will deliver without too many disadvantageous effect on the industry.
