Te Mahere Whakahaere me te Whakaiti Tukunga Para 2024 - Ki te Para Kore
Waste Minimisation and Management Plan 2024 – Towards Zero Waste
Our goal is to achieve ‘zero waste’ in Tāmaki Makaurau by 2040 and avoid sending waste products to landfill. To do this we need to:
- care for our resources and reduce waste
- redesign products to make them more durable and reusable
- repair broken items, rather than throw them away
- recycle materials like food scraps, garden waste, paper, plastic and metals.
A zero waste view includes valuing and restoring the health of te taiao (the natural world) so we can take better care of people.
Much of our current waste represents a loss of valuable resources. We need to reclaim these resources through designing new processes to reduce waste, reuse, repair and recycle products. This will create more jobs, assist our economy and help us protect the environment while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
We can all take steps – whether as individuals, organisations, or communities – to reduce waste and preserve valuable materials. The Waste Minimisation and Management Plan 2024 (WMMP) helps us to achieve this goal.
Key actions of the WMMP
Our WMMP sets out what we will do to reduce waste over the next six years. There are 12 key actions, grouped under four topics.
- Help to build strong partnerships with iwi and the community, including delivering on Māori outcomes and strengthening the Resource Recovery Network.
- Target specific activities and materials (including construction and demolition waste), five priority materials (including plastics and packaging) and a focus on climate change and being prepared for a disaster.
- Support future action on moving up the waste hierarchy – where reusing and redesigning products is encouraged and disposal is the least preferred option. We also want to adopt product stewardship – where product producers accept more responsibility for returning and recycling resources.
- Deliver direct action through our kerbside services, our litter and illegal dumping prevention programme, plus reducing waste across the council group.
Get a copy of the WMMP and Hauraki Gulf Island Waste Plan 2024
Support information for WMMP plan
The WMMP also includes two other sections of support information. The first explains the background and evidence behind the proposal to move Aucklanders from weekly to fortnightly rubbish collections. The second sets out the strategy for improving and expanding the Resource Recovery Network.
Get a copy of WMMP support information
Waste assessment 2023
To help form our WMMP plan we produced a waste assessment looking at:
- the amount of waste produced in the region
- existing services
- future needs.
Get a copy of the assessment
Related topics
Ways to reduce your waste | | https://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/rubbish-recycling/ways-reduce-waste | Ways to reduce your waste | Learn the different ways you can contribute to waste minimisation. | | | | aspx | | | | | | | | | Reducing waste | |
How to get rid of unwanted items | | https://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/rubbish-recycling/Pages/get-rid-unwanted-items.aspx | How to get rid of unwanted items | Find out the disposal options for each type of waste or unwanted item. | | | | aspx | | | | | | | | | Recycling | |
Trade Waste Bylaw 2013 | | https://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/plans-projects-policies-reports-bylaws/bylaws/Pages/trade-waste-bylaw.aspx | Trade Waste Bylaw 2013 | This bylaw protects people, the environment and infrastructure from harmful substances being put into the public wastewater system from commercial and industrial activities. | | | | aspx | | | | | | | | | Bylaw | |
Waste Management and Minimisation Bylaw 2019 | | https://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/plans-projects-policies-reports-bylaws/bylaws/Pages/waste-management-and-minimisation-bylaw.aspx | Waste Management and Minimisation Bylaw 2019 | This bylaw helps to manage and minimise rubbish, recycling and compost in Auckland. It includes rules about kerbside collections and requirements for the waste industry, businesses and multi-unit residential properties. | | | | aspx | | | | | | | | | Bylaw
Waste Management and Minimisation Bylaw
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Waste minimisation programmes | | https://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/environment/what-you-can-do-for-environment/join-community-programme/Pages/waste-free-programmes.aspx | Waste minimisation programmes | Waste-free programmes and groups in the Auckland region. | | | | aspx | | | | | | | | | Volunteering | |
Minimising construction and demolition waste | | https://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/plans-projects-policies-reports-bylaws/our-plans-strategies/topic-based-plans-strategies/environmental-plans-strategies/aucklands-climate-plan/built-environment/Pages/minimising-construction-demolition-waste.aspx | Minimising construction and demolition waste | Find out how we aim to tackle the problem of construction and demolition waste. | | | | aspx | | | | | | | | | | |
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