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The New Zealand Product Stewardship Council (NZPSC) is an independent voice for effective product stewardship on behalf of the wider community.

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Local Government New Zealand support for product stewardship issues

2016 Remit to LGNZ: Beverage container deposit system Palmerston North City Council, supported by New Zealand’s Metro councils, proposed a remit calling for Local Government New Zealand to endorse the concept of a national-mandated beverage container deposit system, and requested Read more…

By Website Designer, 4 years1 year ago
Plastic bottle on grass
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UK: Impacts of a Deposit Refund System for One-way Beverage Packaging on Local Authority Waste Services

A UK study designed to answer the question: ‘What would be the impacts of the introduction of a deposit refund system for oneway beverage packaging on local authority waste services in England?’ shows councils would benefit from the introduction of Read more…

By Sandra Murray, 4 years4 years ago
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E waste product stewardship long overdue

The New Zealand Product Stewardship Council (NZPSC) supports the recent call by the eDay Trust to introduce an e-waste product stewardship scheme for New Zealand. “Electronic waste has been a growing problem for New Zealand, and unlike most western countries, Read more…

By Sandra Murray, 4 years4 years ago
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G20 Action Plan on Marine Litter recommends the introduction of product stewardship and Bottle Deposits!

G20 Action Plan on Marine Litter recommends the introduction of EPR (we call it product stewardship in NZ) and Bottle Deposits! Last month, the Group of Twenty – or G20 as it is popularly known – met in Hamburg, Germany Read more…

By Sandra Murray, 5 years4 years ago
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Flight Plastics opens PET plastic wash plant in Lower Hutt, but we need ‘bottle deposits’ to make it worthwhile.

The opening of Flight Plastics PET recycling facility in Lower Hutt is a good step towards development of NZ based recycling processing. The capacity to turn over 200 million plastic drink bottles a year into high grade food-safe packaging will enable Read more…

By Sandra Murray, 5 years4 years ago
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Cheap rubbish puts recycling out of business

Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of reusable and recyclable materials are going to landfill each year in NZ because waste disposal is the cheapest option. This includes electronic waste, plastic film, beverage containers and construction waste. A new report by Read more…

By Sandra Murray, 5 years4 years ago
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All Tyred out; government announces false solution for tyre woes

After rejecting an industry-designed workable product stewardship scheme for end of life tyres, Environment Minister Nick Smith announced today the government would allocate $19 million taxpayer dollars into a false solution instead – most of the funding to go to Read more…

By Sandra Murray, 5 years4 years ago
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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 Read more…

By Sandra Murray, 5 years4 years ago
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We want a Bottle Deposit scheme!

By Sandra Murray, 5 years1 year ago
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Coca-Cola to back deposit return scheme in major U-turn

In what will be widely seen as a massive U-turn, the soft-drinks giant Coca-Cola has thrown its support behind calls for the Scottish Government to introduce a deposit return scheme, in an effort to reduce littering and boost recycling. Deposit Read more…

By Sandra Murray, 5 years4 years ago

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