Zero waste thinking from Sue Coutts Climate & business: change or retrenchment?
My favourite speaker at the 2022 Climate Change and Business conference was Mike Smith from the Iwi Chairs Forum. He was music to my ears after a long day of listening to people talking about how disclosing climate risk, reporting, tracking and evidence gathering will… More >
Our response: last ditch attempt by the glass industry to derail Container Return Scheme
On 6 October the Glass Packaging Forum (GPF) released a report they commissioned from Grant Thornton on a proposed mandatory product stewardship scheme (or extended producer responsibility (EPR) scheme) for glass packaging. This would be an alternative to glass being included in the Government’s proposed… More >
Groundbreaking global report says zero waste an essential part of any climate plan
The release of a groundbreaking international report, Zero Waste to Zero Emissions: How Waste Reduction is a Climate Gamechanger, says that at the global scale the two main sources of GHGs from the waste sector are methane from organics in landfill and CO2 from burning… More >
Communities stand against incineration and for zero waste
The Zero Waste Network Aotearoa (ZWN) and community groups opposing incinerators and waste-to-energy will be demonstrating outside of the Local Government New Zealand Conference in Palmerston North against the building of new waste incinerators and for a zero waste future on Thursday 21 July from… More >
Waste hearings begin in Feilding
Resource consent hearings for a hotly contested waste-to-energy pyrolysis plant are being heard in Feilding this week. The public hearings concern a proposal to use mixed solid waste in a waste-to-energy plant that will produce toxic char and dirty emissions. The Zero Waste Network Aotearoa… More >
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