New Zealand Waste Strategy

THE NEW ZEALAND WASTE STRATEGY

 

Overview

The New Zealand Waste Strategy was published in March 2002 as a long-term strategy to help reduce and better manage waste in New Zealand.

The strategy contains 30 aspirational targets for improved waste management, waste minimisation and resource efficiency. Although packaging was not specifically identified as a high volume priority waste, nevertheless it was the genesis for the New Zealand Packaging Accord 2004-2009.

A review of the strategy’s targets in 2006 found that the foundations for minimising and managing waste in New Zealand had been laid and that good progress had been made on meeting the Strategy’s objectives.

However, progress against the Strategy's targets has been variable and more work needs to be done. The review also found that some of the targets were out of date or unmeasurable and they needed to be changed.

In March 2009, the Ministry for the Environment published a discussion document on waste minimisation, which included proposals to revise the targets in the New Zealand Waste Strategy.  To date, no further action has been taken by the Ministry for the Environment.

2009 Discussion Document - Waste Minimisation in New Zealand

  • Download the Packaging Council's submission on the proposals

 

2006 Review of Progress

 

2002 Waste Strategy

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 Download zip file of PDF's for entire document (1.5mb)
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 Download PDF's of parts of the document
  -   Contents, Foreward and Executive Summary (473kb)
  -   Section One:  The Waste Problem (189kb)
  -   Section Two: A New Direction (105kb)
  -   Section Three:  Taking Action (342kb)
  -   Glossary and Abbreviations (489kb)

For free printed copies of these documents, email the Ministry for the Environment - publications@mfe.govt.nz

 

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