The new storage bunkers Wairoa’s refuse transfer station means up to an extra 150 tonnes of glass can be recycled each year. Recyclable glass ending up in landfill due to space constraints has become a thing of the past in Wairoa. This, thanks in part to a...
Upper Hutt City Council's Waste Minimisation Officer Millie Porter uses the newly upgraded public recycling centre. Upper Hutt’s recycling drop-off centre has proven so popular since it was upgraded in April 2019 its glass recycling capacity has had to be doubled. The Glass Packaging Forum, which helped fund the...
The Blenheim Resource Recovery Centre has nearly doubled its glass recycling capabilities, thanks in part to a $15,000 grant from the Glass Packaging Forum....
Recycling has become far easier for residents at three Whanganui pensioner housing complexes after the installation of recycling containers....
Glass recycling at the Croad Place Recycling Centre in Tokoroa has been made simpler, quicker and safer thanks to a $25,000 grant from the Glass Packaging Forum....
Port Marlborough has upped its sustainability efforts at the Havelock Marina with the instillation of a dedicated recycling hub, partly funded by a Glass Packaging Forum grant. The grant, of $10,000, is in addition to investments made by Port Marlborough into a dedicated recycling hub at...
New Zealand’s newest resource recovery park is ramping up efforts to improve sustainability in the Far North, with help from the Glass Packaging Forum....
Tauranga's kerbside glass recycling collection system has shown excellent results a year since it began, more than doubling collection rates....
Revelers at festivals and events around the Waikato will have little excuse not to recycle their glass bottles this coming summer after a grant doubled Xtreme Zero Waste’s ability to collect glass....
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....