New Zealand Product Stewardship Council releases Happy Returns – a new report on a mandatory Container Deposit Scheme for New Zealand

We are pleased to release our latest report Happy Returns: A proposed model for a Container Deposit Scheme for New Zealand. This new report explains how bottle deposits could be brought back to New Zealand to deal with the country’s beverage container waste, using an evidence-based model that draws on Read more…

(Un) Changing Behaviour: (New Zealand’s delay & dysfunction in utilising) Economic Instruments in the Management of Waste? – An Open Submission to the New Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment (PCE).

The following open submission to the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment (PCE) has been developed by the New Zealand Product Stewardship Council[1] (NZPSC). This submission utilises the PCE’s 2006 ‘Changing Behaviour: Economic Instruments and the Management of Waste’ report[2], as a rubric for both, examining New Zealand’s poor performance around waste management and Read more…

Is littering really about laziness? Or should we take a look at the role packaging manufacturers have in designing products that pollute.

Environment Minister Nick Smith recently announced public funding for yet another packaging-waste scheme (the ‘Do the Right Thing’ initiative), so it is timely that we cast our eyes back over the history of litter. View this article by the NZPSC on how littering has been used by the packaging industry Read more…