With a third of New Zealand’s population living in Auckland, the city has the biggest opportunity to reduce our nation’s waste and vastly increase how much we recycle, minimising the economic and environmental impact of sending recyclable material to landfill....
The Glass Packaging Forum (GPF) has welcomed Environment Minister David Parker’s announced plan to standardise the materials that must be collected in household kerbside recycling, including glass bottles and jars. The new rules will apply to communities with a population of more than 1,000 people. GPF Scheme...
Glass Packaging Forum Scheme Manager Dominic Salmon. The Glass Packaging Forum (GPF) welcomes Government’s deferral of a container return scheme and encourages decision makers to further consider a more economically and environmentally sustainable alternative for recycling glass bottles and jars. GPF Scheme Manager Dominic Salmon says an...
The GPF supports regulated product stewardship for all container glass and believes glass should be excluded from a CRS until an alternative model has been examined....
Click to enlarge. The Glass Packaging Forum is dedicated to keeping glass bottles and jars out of landfill so they can be recycled, reused or repurposed, but without data on how much glass is manufactured, imported and moved around New Zealand, and what’s happening to it,...
Government’s announcement today (29 July) declaring a host of products, including single-use plastic packaging, priority products under the Waste Minimisation Act is a huge leap in the right direction in New Zealand’s war on waste....
Read the Glass Packaging Forum's submission to the Ministry for the Environment on the proposal to declare packaging a priority product....
It’s finally happened – a New Zealand government has taken the plunge and announced its intention to declare priority product, and thereby bring about regulated product stewardship for the first time....
The Government’s announcement that it is working towards co-designed and regulated product stewardship for a number of products, including packaging, is a huge step in the right direction for New Zealand’s war on waste, says the Glass Packaging Forum (GPF). Associate Minister for the Environment Eugenie Sage today announced a...
The announcement of $256,500 for Tauranga’s glass recycling service is a strong endorsement by Government of colour-sorted, kerbside glass collection, says Glass Packaging Forum scheme manager Dominic Salmon....