What Council's doing about waste

We’re aiming to do this by 2028. The introduction of a food scrap collection service is a Government requirement, and this must be in place by 2030.

Over half our city’s waste is valuable food scraps and garden vegetation, and so by implementing a service like this, we’d be able to turn this into compost and massively reduce the amount of waste going to landfill.

Our machinery in our recycling processing plant (known as the Materials Recovery Facility in Awapuni) is no longer fit-for-purpose. By upgrading our machinery, we’ll be better equipped to handle the large volume and types of materials that need to be sorted and processed.

Currently, we’re the only council in New Zealand directly providing waste collection services, and so we want to see if there are more effective ways to do this.

Our plan also focuses on ongoing education to teach people about reducing waste. This will include more open days and tours at the Awapuni Resource Recovery Park during school holidays.