LGNZ welcomes the review  of New Zealand’s waste and recycling systems. Standardising recycling and improving collection systems across the motu will respond to a number of concerns and opportunities that have been raised in the Local Government Waste Manifesto and by communities.

Managing carbon farming incentivesThe Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) is proposing changes to better manage carbon farming that could see future permanent plantings of exotic forests like radiata pine excluded from the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).

Local Government New Zealand’s submission on the Ministry for the Environment’s
proposals for transforming recycling systems in Aotearoa.  

The Government is consulting on their proposals to Transform Recycling in Aotearoa New Zealand.