Recycling and Government
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Reducing and recycling the Civic Administration Building
- Wellington City Council
- Nearly 80 percent (by weight) of the waste being created through the demolition of Wellington City Council’s Civic Administration Building (CAB) is being recycled instead of being sent to landfill.
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Te Ngākau Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Tips for recycling in Wellington
- Wellington City Council
- While recycling may initially seem daunting, when we get it right it’s an easy way to reduce our waste and negative environmental impact. Our Waste Minimisation Team have shared some things you may not know about recycling in Wellington.
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From the Archives: Inspector of Nuisances
- Wellington City Council
- Before we had street cleaning teams, sewerage systems, waste and recycling services, and a Public Health team, Wellington relied on one person to monitor the sanitation for the whole city – the Inspector of Nuisances. Read on to learn more about this interesting role from back in the day!
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Free tyre recycling facility to open at Spicer Landfill
- Porirua City Council
- Porirua City Council has partnered with Tyrewise for this recycling initiative.
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Spicers Landfill, Tawa, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Recycling myths – busted!
- Wellington City Council
- We’re taking the guess work out of recycling by debunking some of our most common recycling myths and mistakes.
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Submission on the WCC LTP, 2024-34
- Newtown Residents' Association
- The key issues for the Long-term Plan for the next 10 years are described in the consultation documents as being how much to spend on the three waters network to fix the pipes, how to manage waste collection and recycling, and whether or not to sell the WCC Airport shares to set up a ‘resilience … Continue reading Submission on the WCC LTP, 2024-34 →
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Proposal aims to get glass recycling back on track in Porirua
- Porirua City Council
- Porirua City Council is planning changes to its recycling system to ensure its glass can be recycled.
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Porirua, Wellington Region, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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The tale of Wellington's recycling history
- Wellington City Council
- When Wellington was first settled in the 1840s, there was no public collection of rubbish so waste gathered outside homes and businesses and littered the streets.
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Porirua City Council reminding residents how to recycle right at the kerb
- Porirua City Council
- Nationwide standardisation is a chance to make sure we're all recycling right.
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Porirua, Wellington Region, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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No change needed to recycling system in Wellington
- Wellington City Council
- The Ministry for the Environment is introducing nationwide recycling standards to make sure each council is collecting the same recyclables from homes across the motu – with no change needed in Pōneke.
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Re-framing old timber from local college
- Wellington City Council
- Ceres Demolition recently knocked down the Wellington Girls College auditorium and was faced with the prospect of trashing great quality timber. Instead of throwing it out, they turned to a local framing business, JW Framing, to salvage it – a move that diverted 8 tonnes of wood from the landfill!
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Wellington Girls' College, Pipitea Street, Pipitea, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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How to talk to your flatmates about recycling
- Wellington City Council
- If you’re sick of fishing recyclables out of the flat rubbish bin but smart enough to know that passive-aggressive notes aren’t going to cut it - read on for some tips on how to talk to your flatmates about recycling.
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Fresh new trucks coming to a bin near you
- Wellington City Council
- Our rubbish and recycling trucks are workhorses and can collect up to 1,000 bins and bags a day, so we’ve revamped them to keep them in good nick.
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Second-hand bike programme saves 3000 bikes from landfill
- Porirua City Council
- Porirua Green Bikes Trust working hard to give bikes a new life.
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Porirua, Wellington Region, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Council to consider revamp of recycling and rubbish systems
- Wellington City Council
- Wellington City Council will decide next week whether options to revamp rubbish and recycling collections go to consultation as part of the city’s Long-term Plan process next year.
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Welcome to new partners for Upper Hutt Bike Recycling Project
- Upper Hutt City Council
- Following six successful years in partnership with Rimutaka Prison, Upper Hutt City Council today farewelled one of its founding partners from the Upper Hutt Bike recycling project and thanked them for their efforts.
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Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt City, Wellington, 5218, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Waste Auditor with the gift of the gab
- Wellington City Council
- The cat’s out of the bag – and its body was shoved into a bin. That’s one of the worst things Merv has found in a Council recycling bin in his time as a Wellington City Council Waste Auditor.
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Friday Five: Tips for recycling in Wellington
- Wellington City Council
- While recycling may initially seem daunting, when we get it right it’s an easy way to reduce our waste and negative environmental impact. Our Waste Minimisation Team have shared five things you may not know about recycling in Wellington.
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Glass collections to resume
- Island Bay Residents' Association
- From WCC: After a two-week break due to the impacts of COVID-19, glass collections will resume on Monday 11 July. Collections are fortnightly, so please check the recycling calendar for your next collection date. There may be a backlog of glass as people have been stockpiling. Please put it out in stages, only in glass crates, soContinue reading "Glass collections to resume"
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Glass collections resume in the capital next week
- Wellington City Council
- Glass recycling collections will resume in Wellington from Monday 18 April, but residents are asked to drip feed any stockpiles where possible.
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Delivery of free recycling bags starts in the capital
- Wellington City Council
- Wellington City Council will be delivering free packs of recycling bags to households all over the capital from today (Friday 1 April) – and it’s no joke.
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Recycling tips for lids
- Porirua City Council
- Sometimes it's the little things that get in the way of getting recycling right.
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Coat hangers and takeaway cups found in Porirua’s recycling
- Porirua City Council
- An audit of Porirua’s recycling has confirmed contamination is occurring regularly.
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Porirua, Wellington Region, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Battery recycling trial powering ahead
- Wellington City Council
- A new recycling scheme being trialled by Wellington City Council is set to give used household batteries a new lease of life and prevent them from ending up in the landfill.
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City’s recycling to be examined
- Porirua City Council
- Our "recycling ambassadors” will check recycling bin contents before collection to combat contamination.
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Rinse, recycle, repeat challenge
- Upper Hutt City Council
- In early November Council submitted a video on the importance of washing recyclables before putting them in the recycling bin as part of WasteMINZ’s Rinse, Recycle, Repeat challenge.
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Dirty nappies, food and fish found among recycling
- Wellington City Council
- You may expect to find dirty nappies, food scraps, and rusted oven trays in rubbish bags, but surely not in with recycling. Yet, these are among the items the team at recycling centre Oji Fibre Solutions discover on their conveyer belts regularly.
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Meat trays meet their match with new optical sorter
- Wellington City Council
- Wellington’s recycling facility is now the proud owner of an optical sorter, capable of diverting over seven million meat and other clear plastic trays from the region’s landfills and overseas processors each year.
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Public Place Recycling trial ends, stations to be removed
- Wellington City Council
- Wellington City Council will remove nine public recycling stations around the city in mid-July, following the completion of its Public Place Recycling (PPR) trial.
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