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Zero Waste New Zealand Limited
Zero Waste New Zealand Ltd has been in business since 2006, as an outgrowth of the Zero Waste New Zealand Trust (Trust) which is in its 12th year of operation in New Zealand. The Trust and the company operate nationally, with an office based in Birkenhead, Auckland. All company personnel work on a contractual basis, with a pool of capabilities and skills available to be drawn into projects.
The Trust has successfully introduced the idea of Zero Waste and the company was developed to follow up with the practical implementation of Zero Waste and sustainability. The company trades in products and services which are sustainably based and fit the Zero Waste image and ideals. The company experience includes working with councils, central government and the private sector resulting in an excellent understanding of the needs and practicalities of the many different facets of the waste industry.
We have developed and maintain a wide range of contacts in the manufacturing, waste diversion and recycling industries throughout New Zealand. Over the past two years we have gained extensive experience in working in the biogas and organic waste field, pyrolysis, landfill and hazardous and e-waste areas both in the commercial arena and for councils. We are well known, independent and trusted in these sectors.
In the last year we successfully completed
- a large sustainability report for the Cornerstone Group.
Other clients have included:
- Counties Power, - waste audit, waste reduction activities initiated, and an evaluation of major biogas technologies- power from food waste
- Deloittes, waste audit and cost benefit analysis of changes
- Kiwi Investment Property Trust, reduction of paper use on Vero centre the tallest centre in Auckland, waste audit
- Ministry for Environment:
- landfill review, including work on different pollutants eg mercury
- Basel Ban investigation, involving much investigatory work gathering data
- RCN, - computer recyclers, networking, introducing small companies to work together
- Rose Engineering- recycling of plastic
- Ngati Whatua O Orakei, - event recycling advice
- Browns Ski Shop- Queenstown-packaging advice
- Common Ground- an urban landscape company presently involved in the development of Pegasus the new town in Nth Canterbury- waste reduction advice and seminar
- Wastebusters Trust Canterbury – planning assistance for the Ashburton DC Waste Minimisation Plan
Our contact details are:
Jo Knight
Director
Zero Waste New Zealand Ltd
Po Box 33-1695
Takapuna
Auckland
jo@zerowaste.co.nz
Ph 09 4823525
Fax 09 4823526
021 2799487
Jo Knight, Director 
Main interest is information dissemination and the adoption of Zero Waste activities by mainstream New Zealand.
Other interests include;
* Implementation of business and industry practice to facilitate waste elimination
* Anaerobic digestion and diversion of organic waste from landfill
* Sustainable practices in New Zealand including construction and methods for resource recycling
* Carbon mitigation by recycling and sustainable practices
* Community education and social marketing
Jo has natural history, education and marketing qualifications and has previously held marketing positions at the Museums Unit for Dunedin City Council (looking after the Art Gallery and Museums marketing), the Dunedin College of Education, and the National Heart Foundation.
Prior to this she held positions with Kelly Tarltons Underwater World, was a curator at Auckland Zoo and has spent a summer in Antarctica.
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