What shouldn't be going to landfill?
17/09/2018 1:32am
As part of the work to prepare a new joint Council Waste Management and Waste Plan, we did an up to date estimate of what’s going into landfill.
The results of the review are shown in the table above.
Each year about 62,000 tonnes of waste (including 2,000 tonnes from Buller District) is sent to landfill in our region, with annual total waste per person estimated at 598kg for 2016.
About 6,500 tonnes of recyclable materials were diverted from landfill through kerbside collection services during 2016. Most of our recycling is made up of glass and mixed paper and cardboard, with a smaller amount of plastics, tin and aluminium.
So can we do better? Watch this space because we’re going to run a series of stories about how we can ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’ to help us all get less waste into landfill.
For more information about the kerbside recycling service and to make sure you are recycling as much as you can, check out nelson.govt.nz/recycling.
