The Packaging Forum has today released “The National Litter Survey”, which is the first national study looking at New Zealander’s litter in over a decade.
The Glass Packaging Forum’s Public Place Recycling Scheme has allocated $46,000 to projects designed to increase recycling and reduce litter in high traffic public places.
At its annual symposium today the Glass Packaging Forum (the Forum) reported on the performance of its two accredited packaging product stewardship schemes and set out new targets for packaging.
Environment Minister Amy Adams today announced the accreditation of two product stewardship schemes that cover the recycling of plastic, aluminium, paper, glass and cardboard packaging.
Following the successful re-start of collections across the Auckland region, shoppers in and around Hamilton will be able to drop off their soft plastic packaging from Monday 9th September at nine selected Countdown and The Warehouse stores.
The Packaging Forum has appointed its Independent Chair, Rob Lanford, as the inaugural CEO....
Check out some te reo Māori terms related to waste and reycling. Para kore and WasteMINZ have consulted with many groups to come up with an agreed set of terms that can be used in signage and other c...
The Soft Plastics Recycling Scheme has added15 new drop off sites in Auckland and Northland as processing of the colleced plastic increases....
Join our Soft Plastics Recycling Scheme manager and Ministry for the the Environment expert Dana Peterson to find out about recyclability cover and thresholds, and an overview of the priority product ...
The Packaging Forum welcomes Government’s latest move to phase-out difficult to recycle and unnecessary plastic packaging, with caution....
What does recent regulation of plastic packaging as a priority product mean for business? Rob Langford, Independent chair of The Packaging Forum explains....
Single-use plastic beverage containers, such as plastic bottles, are included in the Government’s latest announcement to tackle waste reduction....
The Government’s announcement to regulate product stewardship for single-use plastic packaging is broadly supported by the Soft Plastics Recycling Scheme....
The Packaging Forum, backs today’s announcement by Associate Minister for the Environment Eugenie Sage to declared a plastic packaging a priority product....