Lawrence Gullery05:00, May 05 2021
WaipÄ District Council
Rick Thorp from Xtreme Zero Waste in Raglan with Waipā District Council’s waste minimisation officer Sally Fraser.
Waipā is looking to follow in Raglan’s footsteps by setting up a resource recovery centre to intercept building material, clothing, concrete and scrap metal heading to landfill. Instead, those household and secondhand items could be reused and given a new life. That’s backed by a solid waste audit in October 2020 where the Waipā District Council found more than half the items thrown into residents’ household rubbish could have been diverted from landfill. The council had been investigating how to increase resource recovery in its communities and was promoting a few options, hoping for more public feedback.
What a load of garbage: More than half of Waipā s rubbish doesn t belong in landfill
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Waipa District Council contractors hand-sort the rubbish before categorising and weighing it as part of the audit process. Photo / Supplied
Waipa District Council contractors hand-sort the rubbish before categorising and weighing it as part of the audit process. Photo / Supplied
NZ Herald
By: Danielle Zollickhofer
More than half of the waste Waipā residents toss in their rubbish bins could have been diverted from landfill – much of it food that would have been still good to eat.
That is one of the findings of a Waipā District Council solid waste audit, which involved hand-sorting the contents of 253 randomly selected bins and bags from 44 streets in the district.
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