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Zero Waste Plan

As stated in the New Zealand Waste Strategy 2002,

“Waste is bad for the environment, bad for our health and bad for our economy. Numerous adverse environmental and human health effects can be attributed to waste.”

Negative effects include the emission of harmful greenhouse gases from waste decomposing in landfills, and toxic leachate escaping into the ground. Waste requires valuable open space to be allocated for sanitary landfills, which are a nuisance to neighbours and limits future land use.

Waste symbolises economic inefficiency and is the evidence of an unsustainable use of resources. As more waste is produced and landfill space becomes scarcer, the costs of disposal in New Zealand will continue to rise.

It is not enough to simply get rid of all the waste produced by burying it in a landfill. Rodney has a very special environment and its people enjoy a unique lifestyle. Every effort must be made to reduce waste going to landfills. Our aim is to sustainably manage the environment we live in.

Toward this aim, Council adopted a Zero Waste Plan in 2002, and this Zero Waste Plan 2005.

The document is the result of a review of the previous Zero Waste Plan (ZWP 2002), as adopted by special consultative procedure in 2002. The ZWP 2005 also incorporates the sanitary assessment provisions as required by the Local Government Act 2002.

Zero Waste Plan (292k)

For further information please contact Parul Sood, Waste & Enviro-Care Manager on 0800 426 5169.