Auckland Waste

Auckland — Auckland now has its first region-wide plan for tackling waste to reduce harm to the environment and help ensure Auckland is the world's most liveable city.

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Auckland City — Auckland Council is advising residents that, commencing Monday 4 June (Queen’s Birthday), all its regular kerbside rubbish, recycling and paper collections will be one day later than usual due to the Queen’s Birthday public holiday.

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Whangaparaoa — Rubbish and recycling scheduled to be collected on Anzac Day Wednesday, 25 April will be collected on Tuesday, 24 April 2012.

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Auckland City — <p>Auckland Council is advising residents that, for two weeks commencing Monday 30 January, all its regular kerbside rubbish, recycling and paper collections will be one day later than usual due to the Auckland Anniversary and Waitangi Day public holidays.

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Auckland City — Auckland Council is advising residents that, for two weeks commencing Monday 30 January, all its regular kerbside rubbish, recycling and paper collections will be one day later than usual due to the Auckland Anniversary and Waitangi Day public holidays.

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Auckland — Auckland Council has developed the first Auckland-wide draft plan to deal with waste in Auckland and to provide consistent services across the region, meet government regulations and manage costs.

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Auckland City — Auckland Council’s draft waste plan was the inspiration behind a competition aimed at getting young people involved in tackling Auckland’s waste issues.

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Auckland — After the festive season Aucklanders can dispose of unwanted Christmas trees at over a dozen locations across the region.

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Auckland City — Auckland Council’s draft Waste Management and Minimisation Plan asks Aucklanders to take a closer look at what they throw out in the rubbish, with the focus on putting resources to better use.

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Auckland City — More than 120,000 litres of Auckland households’ used engine oil was recycled in the first six months of a trial oil recovery scheme initiated by Auckland Council, with even better results expected in the future.

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Auckland City — The draft Waste Management and Minimisation Plan includes proposals to standardise household kerbside collection across Auckland to help achieve a 30% reduction in kerbside waste by 2018.

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Auckland — Two boxes of toxic 60-year-old bug spray and hundreds of kilograms of other dangerous chemicals are amongst the tonnes of household hazardous waste handed in to Auckland Council’s HazMobile team so far this year.

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Auckland City — From 17 November Aucklanders will be able to give feedback on Auckland Council’s draft waste plan, outlining ways to manage and minimise waste.

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Auckland — Auckland Council is increasing the availability of free composting courses so more Aucklanders can learn how easy it is to put their food and garden waste to good work, rather than sending it to landfills.

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Manukau City — At its Annual General Meeting, the Glass Packaging Forum (the Forum) released details of its performance against the targets set out in its product stewardship scheme.

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Auckland — Rugby fans were encouraged to look after the environment at Saturday night’s Investec Tri Nations 2011 Rugby game at Eden Park between Australia and New Zealand when National MP and Chair of the Love NZ Advisory Board Nicky Wagner issued a challenge to all patrons to recycle 100% of their bottles and cans as part of the Love NZ recycling programme.

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Auckland — Auckland Council is urging more people to take advantage of a used engine oil recovery trial that’s providing Aucklanders with a free, easy way to safely dispose of their waste engine oil.

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Auckland City — Exchanging scrap metal for cash has just become a whole lot easier for Aucklanders with the launch of Metal Exchange’s second branch.

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Auckland — Auckland Council is advising residents that no council rubbish, recycling and paper collections will occur in the region on Good Friday (22 April) or Easter Monday/ANZAC Day (25 April).

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Auckland — Technology finance specialist, Equico, launched its Equico-Eco initiative at Richmond Road Primary School in Auckland yesterday, marking the start of a campaign to improve the sustainability of New Zealand’s schools.

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Auckland City — Floral rubbish bags, signs written in moss and colourful flowerbeds adorn the CBD this month.

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Auckland — Not telling Auckland ratepayers how they will be charged for wastewater leaves water charges in limbo, says Auckland City Councillor Richard Northey Councillor Richard Northey said: “The government has found that setting a pricing policy for the disposal of waste water would create winners and losers, so they have quickly resorted to the too-hard basket.

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