Horowhenua Waste Management & Minimisation Plan
The Horowhenua Waste Management & Minimisation Plan (WMMP), adopted by Council on 26 June 2024, sets out how Council will progress efficient and effective waste management and minimisation in the Horowhenua District.
The Plan's vision is:
- To provide households and businesses with affordable and impactful waste management and minimisation services.
- To promote community empowerment, individual responsibility and positive behaviour change.
Objectives
The objectives for waste management and minimisation in the Horowhenua District are:
- To reduce waste disposed to landfill
- Enable data sharing with private waste collectors
- Enable data sharing with private waste recycling companies
- Provide the community with access to recycling services
- Ensure households and businesses have access to the safe disposal of general waste
- Provide environmentally safe disposal of hazardous wastes
- To reduce illegal dumping
- To provide waste minimisation education in 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 Aotearoa, New Zealand
- Provide high impact, low cost waste diversion initiatives
Horowhenua Waste Management & Minimisation Plan (WMMP) 2024(PDF, 4MB)
Plan Review
The plan will be reviewed no later than six years from adoption, or earlier if a change in circumstances provokes a review of the Waste Management and Minimisation Policy framework.