Waste Management and Minimisation Plan

Let's get our rubbish sorted

Auckland Council has developed the first Auckland-wide draft plan to deal with waste in Auckland and to provide consistent services across the region, meet government regulations and manage costs.

To help us succeed, we need to:

• deliver waste services more efficiently
• find better ways to recover and re-use resources, and
• send less waste to landfill.

Auckland Council is proposing a range of streamlined services and new initiatives to meet these objectives.

From 17 November 2011 until 31 January 2012 we collected Aucklanders opinions on the draft Waste Management and Minimisation Plan (WMMP). Submissions have now closed.

The council will listen to what people had to say and decide what changes will be made to the plan before it is adopted in May/June 2012.

You can also join in the conversation about waste management on our Facebook page.

Once the WMMP is adopted, we will work with you and your community to ensure you know what these changes entail. We will develop an extensive community educational programme to guide the lead up to and implementation starting in 2015.

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Timeline

17 November 2011		Submission period began. Information and advice on how to provide feedback on the draft plan was available at all libraries, council customer service centres and local board offices across the Auckland region.
31 January 2012		Submission period closed at 4pm
February - March 2012		Council considers submissions. Hearings are held for those who wish to speak to their submission. For details on where and when hearings will be held, see our WMMP hearing schedule (1.1mb) * WMMP hearing agenda (92kb) WMMP hearing agenda for Local Boards (3mb) WMMP hearing report (32kb) WMMP hearing report - Attachment 1 (516kb)  WMMP hearing report - Attachment 2 (1.07mb)
May/June 2012		The Auckland Council Waste Management and Minimisation Plan is finalised and adopted by the council.

* Please note: The public deliberations for the draft Waste Management and Minimisation Policy hearings (previously scheduled for Friday, 4 May and Tuesday, 8 May 2012) have been re-scheduled to take place on Tuesday, 29 May 2012 at 12 noon. The public is welcome at the deliberation.