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...
A truck offloads glass into one of the newly built storage bunkers built at the Kerikeri RE: Sort Resource Recovery Park. 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. The Kerikeri Re:Sort Resource...
Glass is colour-sorted at kerbside as part of the Tauranga City Council's rates-funded glass collection service. Tauranga's kerbside glass recycling collection system has shown excellent results a year since it began, more than doubling collection rates. The Tauranga City Council reported 3,313 tonnes of glass was...
Read the Glass Packaging Forum's submission to the Ministry for the Environment on the proposal to declare packaging a priority product....
Xtreme Zero Waste Raglan senior processor Kaleb Kingi, left, and processor Sean Dillon separate glass into the new trailer. 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...
The GPF currently runs the country’s only Government-accredited, voluntary product stewardship scheme for glass bottles and jars, with over 100 member brands. By Dominic Salmon, Glass Packaging Forum Scheme Manager It’s finally happened – a New Zealand government has taken the plunge and announced its...
The Government’s announcement that it is working towards co-designed and regulated product stewardship for a number of products, including packaging, is a huge step in the right direction for New Zealand’s war on waste, says the Glass Packaging Forum (GPF). Associate Minister for the Environment Eugenie Sage today announced a...
Pictured, from left, Smart Environmental Bay of Plenty Area Manager Johnny Dick, Waste Management Project Officer Nicole Banks, Tauranga City Council Team Leader: Waste Behaviour Change Programmes Cayley McLean, Tauranga City Council Manager: Sustainability and Waste Rebecca Maiden, Associate Minister for the Environment Eugenie Sage,...