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...
Tauranga's kerbside glass recycling collection system has shown excellent results a year since it began, more than doubling collection rates....
The announcement of $256,500 for Tauranga’s glass recycling service is a strong endorsement by Government of colour-sorted, kerbside glass collection, says Glass Packaging Forum scheme manager Dominic Salmon....
Residents in a growing number of regions may not be able to recycle much of their plastic packaging anymore, but that shouldn’t discourage them from recycling glass, paper, cardboard and metal, say the Glass Packaging Forum....
It's been six months since the Tauranga City Council kicked off its rates-funded kerbside collection for glass bottle and jar recycling, and the service is showing excellent results. The Glass Packaging Forum helped fund the new collection, which saw residents issued with glass recycling crates. The...
The new, rates-funded kerbside glass collection service in Tauranga has already diverted over 140 tonnes of glass bottles and jars from landfill to be recycled at O-I New Zealand in Auckland....
The biggest grant awarded by the Glass Packaging Forum to date has helped Tauranga City Council roll out the city’s first ever, rates-funded glass bottle and jar collection service....
Glass recycling will once again become quick and easy for Tauranga residents with the city council set to introduce a new kerbside collection service....
A grant from the Glass Packaging Forum has improved glass handling and storage facilities for one of Hawke’s Bay’s biggest recycling collectors....