What are the goals of the Waste Management and Minimisation Plan?

The goals of the Waste Management and Minimisation Plan (WMMP) are:

  • Promote reuse of waste
  • To reduce waste disposal to landfill
  • Enable data sharing with private waste collectors
  • Enable data sharing with private recycling companies
  • Provide the community with access to recycling services
  • Ensure households and business have access safe disposal of general waste
  • Provide environmentally safe disposal of hazardous waste
  • To reduce illegal waste dumping 
  • To provide waste minimisation education to schools
  • To educate the community in waste minimisation
  • To work collaboratively with other territorial authorities, central government, industry, and other parties to improve waste management and minimisation in New Zealand
  • Provide high impact low cost waste diversion initiatives.
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