by Duncan Wilson | 5 Jun 2017 | Marine, Policy, Reports, Sustainability, Waste
Eunomia advocates implementing a series of ‘best in class’ measures addressing specific items that are clearly identifiable as contributors to marine litter, including deposit returns, levies on single use plastic items, a comprehensive ban on microbeads, and, using extended producer responsibility to require those placing plastics packaging on the market to bear the full economic cost of collecting and treating them.
by Marc Wilson | 12 Apr 2017 | Recent, Recycling, Reports
In this report, prepared jointly with Resource Media, we analyse recycling data from around the world to understand which countries really lead the municipal waste recycling league table.
by Duncan Wilson | 2 Apr 2017 | article, Councils, Procurement, Recycling, Reports, Waste
The rise in popularity of private wheeled bin rubbish collections means an increasing number of councils in NZ are finding themselves with some tough decisions to make about how they provide services. Duncan Wilson provides insight and perspective in this article for...
by Duncan Wilson | 22 Jun 2016 | News, Recent, Reports, Waste
One of the biggest barriers to managing our waste better in NZ is a lack of good data. We worked with WasteMINZ, the Ministry for the Environment and Waste Not Consulting to develop the first step to better data. The development of the national waste data framework...
by Duncan Wilson | 22 Oct 2014 | News, Presentation, Recycling, Reports, Waste
View this presentation on ‘The Horror of 240 Litre Wheeled Bins’ from the WasteMINZ Conference 2014. In this presentation Duncan Wilson presents a range of data that demonstrates how large wheeled bins for rubbish drive wasteful behaviour. Simply put,...
by Duncan Wilson | 19 May 2013 | Councils, Recycling, Reports, Waste
This waste stocktake report has been undertaken to help construct a comprehensive picture of waste management in the Bay of Plenty and Waikato regions.
by Duncan Wilson | 19 Apr 2013 | Reports, Strategy, Waste
These guidelines provide good practice guidance to territorial authorities (TAs) on how to use Waste Disposal Levy money received.
by Duncan Wilson | 20 Jun 2012 | Recycling, Reports, Waste
Councils, like most sectors of society, have been feeling the pressure to constrain spending following on from the last global financial crisis. But ‘doing more with less’, as much as it sounds like a corporate cliche, is actually no bad thing.
by Duncan Wilson | 20 Apr 2012 | Recycling, Reports
This establishment guide has been developed to provide guidance, information, standard documentation and templates to any groups planning to establish a reuse centre.
by Duncan Wilson | 20 Oct 2011 | Recycling, Reports, Waste
Minimizing Waste Trial – a Presentation to WMINZ
by Duncan Wilson | 19 Oct 2009 | Recycling, Reports, Strategy, Waste
This report presents a stocktake of waste and diverted materials flows and facilities in the Auckland Region. Data and information from local government, business, and key waste and recovered material operators have been compiled to provide a quantitative analysis of waste and diverted materials in the region.
by Duncan Wilson | 20 Nov 2007 | Organic, Recycling, Reports
Kitchen food waste is one of the largest single fraction of the
domestic waste stream and therefore an obvious target for
diversion from landfill. This report explores optimising domestic kitchen waste