by Molly Coombes | 3 Jun 2025 | Reports, Sustainability, Waste
In May 2025, Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment (PCE) published the research note ‘Resource use and waste generation in Aotearoa New Zealand: filling (some) gaps’ to contribute to the investigation they’re carrying out on the impacts...
by Molly Coombes | 3 Jun 2025 | Marine, Presentation, Sustainability, Waste
Consultant Anita Lewis presented a webinar hosted by WasteMINZ on the 9th October 2024. Titled ‘Invisible Waste: Unveiling Microplastic Pollution’, Anita discusses the pervasive issue of microplastics. Focusing on its sources, environmental impacts, and...
by Molly Coombes | 4 Apr 2025 | Policy, Recycling, Reports, Waste
The Ministry for the Environment commissioned Eunomia to produce a report about recycling rates that would assist them to determine how to calculate national recycling rates for Aotearoa New Zealand. Six metrics were put forward for the Ministry’s refinement and...
by Molly Coombes | 31 Oct 2024 | Reports, Waste
WasteMINZ have recently published the Organic Waste Collection and Processing Guidance for Local Authorities that was produced by Eunomia with support from Waste Not Consulting and Sunshine Yates Consulting, with funding and support from the WasteMINZ Territorial...
by Molly Coombes | 2 Oct 2024 | Councils, Disposal, Policy, Reports, Sustainability, Waste
In September 2024 Eunomia produced a report for Waikato Regional and Tauranga City Councils that seeks to understand what place waste to energy has in Aotearoa. The report presents outcomes on key waste to energy technologies and their potential application in New...
by Duncan Wilson | 29 May 2023 | Reports, Waste
Waste and resource recovery infrastructure stocktake Eunomia undertook a comprehensive review of New Zealand’s waste and resource recovery infrastructure in 2020-21. The summary report for the project is now publicly available and can be downloaded here. The...
by Duncan Wilson | 13 Dec 2020 | Disposal, Reports, Waste
So you declared a climate emergency. What’s next? Duncan Wilson presented at the WasteMINZ conference in October 2019 about how tackling waste can have a bigger carbon impact than you might think. Officially waste accounts for 5% of NZ’s greenhouse gas...
by Duncan Wilson | 28 Nov 2019 | Disposal, News, Policy, Recent, Recycling, Waste
The Government has announced a consultation on changes to the waste disposal levy. The proposals would see the rate of the levy increase to $50-$60 a tonne by 2023 for waste to class 1 landfills. The levy would also be extended to cover classes 2-4 landfills at lower...
by Duncan Wilson | 24 Jul 2019 | article, Marine, News, Reports, Sustainability, Waste
Ever wondered where the rubber on your tyres goes when it wears off? Eunomia Senior Consultant Dr Chiarina Darrah took part in a panel discussion on the problem of microplastics from tyre wear at this year’s Fully Charged Live. The festival of clean energy...
by Duncan Wilson | 5 Apr 2019 | article, Disposal, News, Recent, Waste
Recent events such as floods washing out the old Fox Glacier landfill and a large fire at Hampton Downs landfill have prompted the question: Do we have a landfill problem? Eunomia Senior Consultant, Lisa Eve spoke with Larry Williams on Newstalk ZB about the issue....
by Duncan Wilson | 4 Apr 2019 | Councils, News, Recent, Strategy, Sustainability, Waste
Darebin City Council (DCC) in Melbourne, Australia were the first in the world to declare a climate emergency in December 2016. We have been appointed to help the council to determine what practical actions they can take to meaningfully reduce the amount of carbon...
by Duncan Wilson | 17 Oct 2018 | article, Councils, News, Recent, Recycling, Sustainability, Waste
In the course of our work we talk to lots of council members, stakeholders, and members of the public. The topic of Waste to Energy comes up regularly. Waste to Energy is common in many places overseas such as UK, parts of Europe, Japan, and it is becoming more...
