Colin Turner made four trips on his mobility to the refuse and glass recycling pop-up site in Te Aroha. He took the glass which he and the other residents at his block of flats had stockpiled during the COVID-19 lockdown. While COVID-19 Alert Level 4 and...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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. ...
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...