Students at Opunake High School in Taranaki are proving persistence and determination pays off, with their seaweed fertiliser project going from strength to strength....
The move to glass refillable bottles has gotten off to a stolid start for a popular string of Auckland taprooms The Beer Spot. The Glass Packaging Forum (GPF) awarded The Beer Spot a $29,000 grant to help roll out its new refill system, which uses glass...
Rotorua Lakes Community Board Chair Phill Thomass and Rotorua Lakes Council Waste Minimisation Officer Meghan Cooper with one of the bintainers at Lake Rotoiti. Rotomā and Rotoiti holiday makers and residents will be able to easily recycle glass bottles and jars thanks to funding from the...
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...
Xtreme Zero Waste's chief story teller Sarah Lancaster with Collections Coordinator Awatea Dillon, left, and Senior Processor Kaleb Kingi. Xtreme Zero Waste in Raglan is one of the country’s longest running and most successful waste warrior community groups. Their new centre of excellence, which the Glass Packaging...
A leader in New Zealand’s war on waste is further upping its game with a centre of excellence partly funded by the Glass Packaging Forum (GPF)....
Waikato District Council Solid Waste Team Leader Phillip Ellis with the new glass storage bunkers. The Waikato District Council has upped its recycling game with a new, fit-for-purpose kerbside recycling sorting centre in Huntly. The new centre, which received a $20,000 grant from the Glass Packaging Forum...
A grant from the Glass Packaging Forum has helped keep high-quality recycled glass flowing from the South Island’s Waitaki district to Auckland to be made into new containers....
EcoCentral's glass collection trial will determine the viability, and sustainability of collecting colour-sorted glass for processing back into glass containers. Christchurch-based EcoCentral is trialling a new way for residents of the Garden City to recycle their glass bottles and jars. The trial, at EcoCentral’s Parkhouse transfer station,...