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June 2, 2020 In Accreditation

NZ glass recycling on the up – accreditation report

The Glass Packaging Forum (GPF) has released its 2018-2019 annual accreditation report highlighting the performance of glass recovery nationally, including recycling, mass balance data, funding, and stakeholder engagement. The report is an annual requirement of its Government accreditation and demonstrates industry’s long-term stewardship of glass. GPF Scheme...

May 13, 2020 In Grants and Funding, Media releases, Recycling, Sustainability

Collaboration keeps glass recycling going during lockdown

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....

April 22, 2020 In Grants and Funding, Media releases

Funding to get glass recycling back on track

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....

April 21, 2020 In Grants and Funding, Recycling

Helping to ensure glass recycling during COVID-19 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...

April 20, 2020 In Media releases, Recycling

COVID-19 pandemic exposes flaw in Christchurch recycling system

Christchurch City Council’s decision to ask residents not to stockpile recyclables and send it to landfill is a result of the wasteful collection method used....

April 8, 2020 In Media releases, Recycling

Concern mixed messages over recycling may threaten glass supply chain

The public is being called on to support glass recycling during and after the COVID-19 lockdown to ensure a supply of glass containers to essential food and beverage manufacturers. The country’s only container glass stewardship scheme, the Glass Packaging Forum (GPF) says while the Ministry for the Environment has...

March 31, 2020 In Reuse, Sustainability

Reuse is king at Kapati craft distillery The Bond Store

When it comes to sustainability the waste hierarchy is the simplest and often best guideline, and it’s no different for packaging. In the hierarchy reuse is king and no other packaging material is better suited to this than glass. While reusing glass bottles and jars at scale around New...

March 27, 2020 In Member updates, Recycling

GPF COVID-19 update

New Zealand moving to COVID-19 Alert Level 4 has had wide-ranging impacts across society, with recycling among those. The Glass Packaging Forum has been working to ensure the flow of recycled glass to the furnace continues. Read more. ...

February 10, 2020 In Grants and Funding, Recycling

Grant keeps South Island glass recycling on the up

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...

February 4, 2020 In Grants and Funding, Recycling

Funding top-up boosts Wairoa glass recycling, sustainability

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...