While COVID-19 Alert Level 4 and 3 interrupted most recycling services around the country some councils found ways of ensuring recyclables could still be collected....
The Glass Packaging Forum (GPF) is appealing to councils and recyclers around New Zealand to apply for grants in its upcoming funding round if they need assistance to revive glass recycling following the lockdown....
A grant of $6,000 helped the Matamata-Piako District Council provide a mixed glass recycling bin and staff to manage social distancing at temporary collection sites in Morrinsville, Matamata and Te Aroha. This was to ensure the continued recycling of glass during the COVID-19 lockdown, which...
South Island glass recycling has been given a boost after the Glass Packaging Forum helped upgrade the 5R Solutions hub in Christchurch. The Forum funded a grant of just over $11,500 for the construction of storage bunkers at 5R Solution’s new glass recovery facility in Hornby, which opened...
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...