Click to enlarge. The Glass Packaging Forum is dedicated to keeping glass bottles and jars out of landfill so they can be recycled, reused or repurposed, but without data on how much glass is manufactured, imported and moved around New Zealand, and what’s happening to it,...
The Glass Packaging Forum's latest funding round has seen just over $92,000 awarded to seven projects ranging from reuse to infrastructure, and research to alternative use....
Ethical Waste owner Sam Gray with the forklift a GPF grant helped buy. Sam Gray is the owner of Ethical Waste, which has the site management contract at Waimarino Recycling Centre in Ohakune. Since taking over the contract 10 months ago Sam and his team have...
The team at Bin Hire recently developed a trolley into something which has the potential to help solve a long-running sustainability issue in New Zealand....
The new glass recycling storage bunkers at its Waipukurau Transfer Station. The Central Hawke’s Bay District Council (CHBDC) is ready should its glass recycling service be expanded later this year, thanks to a $20,000 grant from the Glass Packaging Forum. The grant has helped the council upgrade...
The Glass Packaging Forum recently completed its 2019-2020 annual accreditation report. The GPF runs the only Government accredited, voluntary product stewardship scheme for glass bottles and jars in New Zealand. Report highlights: The glass recovery rate climbed to 75% (despite glass consumption increasing)Grant funding totaled $215,472 for 15...
Schnappa Rock owner Nick Keene. Nick Keene is the owner of popular Northland restaurant and bar Schnappa Rock, in Tutukaka, which has been working hard to embed recycling and sustainability into its DNA. The Hospitality industry faces unique challenges for recycling glass which Nick, as a...
The Western Bay of Plenty is set to roll out a new kerbside service, which includes a best practice separate glass recycling collection, on 1 July 2021....
The Whangarei district’s sustainability work has received a major boost with a grant of over $42,000 from the Glass Packaging Forum. The grant will improve glass recycling through the upgrade of storage bunkers at the Re:Sort Centre in Whangarei, run by Northland Waste. “The Whangarei District...
A GPF grant will help with the construction of a concrete pad for new storage bunkers (similar pictured). Not only is Kaipara district’s population growing, but the of volume glass it recycles too – so much so the council’s has had to upgrade its storage facilities. This...