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Beverage Industry lobbies to kill off waste and climate solution

“The only people benefiting from our broken system of dealing with New Zealand’s 2+ billion drink containers each year is the beverage industry. It is unacceptable that corporate lobbying at the Beehive is holding back a simple container return scheme that is wildly popular with… More >

Dumping Returns Scheme makes no sense

“The decision to abandon a beverage container return scheme is based on a false economy that allows big polluters to continue to dump their products into the environment at the cost of ratepayers and local councils,” said Zero Waste Network spokesperson Sue Coutts. “Right now… More >

Shock at reconvening of waste-to-energy hearing

“The decision to have three more days of resource consent hearings for Bioplant’s Feilding waste-to-energy proposal is shocking. All of the Council’s independent experts have urged the consent be declined, and the engineering basics of the project have been shown to be based on flawed… More >

Container return scheme is a climate solution

“We are seeing the intensification of climate impacts. We need real, practical solutions for emissions reductions right now. One of the easiest things we can do is to implement a return scheme on beverage containers that would offer a .20-.30 cent refund for each container… More >

Our Zero Waste World – the view from Costa Rica

International connections The International Dialogue that I attended in Costa Rica, is an undertaking of the Zero Waste International Alliance (ZWIA). ZWIA is made up of affiliate organisations (ZWN is one!) and is also a network of amazing zero waste practitioners. This was why I… More >