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OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF THE WASTE MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE NZ
SEPTEMBER 2019 \ ISSUE 173 \ $9.00
ALTERNATIVES
TO SINGLE-USE OPT-IN FOR
COFFEE CUPS ORGANICS
COLLECTIONS
WASTE LEARNING TEAMS
DATA
PRODUCT STEWARDSHIP | CONTAMINATED LAND MANAGEMENT
WASTEMINZ MEMBERS
P L ATIN U M SILVER
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WASTENET SOUTHLAND
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WASTE MANAGEMENT NZ
wastemanagement.co.nz WSP OPUS
wsp-opus.co.nz
ON THE COVER WAKING UP TO
NEW WASTE REDUCTION IDEAS
CHIEF EXECUTIVE
Janine Brinsdon \ +64 9 476 7172
janine@wasteminz.org.nz
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SECTOR PROJECTS MANAGER
Nic Quilty \ +64 9 476 7167
nic@wasteminz.org.nz
ARE THE DAYS OF SINGLE-USE
SECTOR PROJECTS MANAGER
COFFEE CUPS NUMBERED?
Jenny Marshall \ +64 9 476 7164
The search for alternatives to
jenny@wasteminz.org.nz
single-use coffee cups is leading
CORPORATE SERVICES MANAGER
to innovative options from
CJ Dooner \ +64 9 476 7162
reuse systems to edible cups.
cj@wasteminz.org.nz
SUSTAINABILIT Y ADVISOR
Sarah Pritchett \ +64 21 0825 4606
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sarahp@wasteminz.org.nz AN OUTSIDER’S PERSPECTIVE
ON WASTE DATA
ACCOUNTS ADMINISTRATOR
Justine Robinson \ +64 9 476 7163 Dr Rachel Chiaroni-Clarke reports
justine@wasteminz.org.nz on her analysis of the country’s
waste data and the data collection
EDITOR, REVOLVE
Kim Mundell \ +64 21 655 917 changes needed from industry
wasteminz@gmail.com to help solve our plastic crisis.
SUB-EDITOR, REVOLVE
Julie O'Brien 17
wasteminz@gmail.com GIVING RATEPAYERS A CHOICE
DESIGN, REVOLVE
Leanne Lassman \ +64 21 267 3885
leanne@electrichedgehog.co.nz
Offering Waimakariri District Council
ratepayers the choice of opting
in for an organics collection got
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complicated. Kitty Waghorn explains. PROPOSED REGULATED PRODUCT
T +64 9 476 7162
STEWARDSHIP SCHEME
PO Box 305426, Triton Plaza
North Shore 0757 20 The government’s consultation
on its proposed scheme to
Unit 2, 5 Orbit Drive, Rosedale 0632 LEARNING TEAMS: A TOOL FOR
New Zealand regulate product stewardship
WORKPLACE IMPROVEMENT
wasteminz.org.nz gives WasteMINZ members an
AND ENGAGEMENT opportunity to influence these
Greg Dearsly uses a case study to regulations.
WasteMINZ is the leading professional
body for waste management, resource
illustrate how learning teams can
recovery and contaminated land be used to enhance organisational
management in New Zealand. We deliver learning and worker engagement. REGULARS
value to our members through the 02 MEMBERS
shaping and sharing of policy and the
development of industry good practice.
24 04 FROM JANINE'S DESK
WasteMINZ publishes revolve magazine
A CONSULTANT’S PERSPECTIVE 05 YOUR BOARD
four times a year, it plays a vital role ON CONTAMINATED 07 CONFERENCE
in ensuring our members are up-to- LAND MANAGEMENT 08 MOVERS & SHAKERS
date with the latest in industry news,
policy and legislative changes as well
Simon Hunt describes the challenge 32 FROM THE REGIONS
that insufficient government
as innovations and advances. 34 SECTOR GROUPS
revolve magazine is a forum for positive
policy, regulation and guidance
sector debate and discussion. The poses for providing advice on
articles contained in revolve do not contaminated land management.
necessarily represent the views of
WasteMINZ or the WasteMINZ Board.
ISSN 2324-5417 (Print)
ISSN 2324-5425 (Online)
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FROM
JANINE'S
DESK Janine Brinsdon
Chief Executive, WasteMINZ
Talk to me janine@wasteminz.org.nz
+64 9 476 7172
The time has come — our conference at which chair Darren Patterson
is now just weeks away. It has
BUT WE ARE NOT and I will present the annual report
been an honour to work alongside ALONE. THE SEARCH and future priorities for the 2019-
the WasteMINZ team and to see FOR IMPROVED 2020 financial year. The AGM will
first-hand their extraordinary WASTE, RESOURCE also provide a chance for us to
commitment to the creation and RECOVERY AND collectively thank and acknowledge
delivery of a world-class event.
CONTAMINATED the current WasteMINZ board,
After months of planning and and to welcome three members
organising, it is almost time for
LAND MANAGEMENT for the next two years as voted
our sectors to come together in
SOLUTIONS on by you. Please see below the
Hamilton, and to have the chance EXTENDS BEYOND nominees standing for election to
to learn, listen and help shape our OUR ISLANDS. the WasteMINZ Board.
collective future. Now is the time for New
At conference we will share and
The consistent message I Zealand to define the future of our
celebrate some of the amazing
hear from members is that the sectors. Thank you in anticipation
initiatives, research and expertise
situation we find ourselves in now for your passion and commitment
we have within New Zealand, while
is unique, due to the scale and pace to leaving a legacy we can all be
taking the chance to challenge
of change we are experiencing. proud of. After all, toitū te whenua,
and test our thinking through
Global commodity pricing and whatungarongaro he tangata, the
international perspective and
export restrictions are forcing us to land remains when people have
experience.
take greater responsibility for our disappeared.
WasteMINZ’s AGM will take
choices — be that as a consumer or
place on 24 September in Hamilton,
within a commercial context.
31ST ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2 3 - 2 6 S EPT EMB ER | H AM I LTO N
WASTEMINZ BOARD NOMINEES 2019
DAVE BULL ALICE GRACE ALEC MCNEIL WAYNE PLUMMER LAURENCE ZWIMPFER
HAIL Environmental Morrison Low Marlborough District EnviroWaste Services eDay New Zealand
Council Trust
4
YOUR
BOARD Simonne Eldridge
WasteMINZ Board deputy chair
seldridge@tonkin.co.nz
Kia ora tātou board of trustees meeting, one of
The WasteMINZ Conference is my fellow trustees asked a group HOW TO
almost upon us and the team has
been working hard to shape up an
of students what advice they had
for a presentation he was going to
CONTACT
interesting and thought-provoking give to consulting engineers about YOUR BOARD
programme. I’m looking forward to generation gaps. They replied that
seeing as many of you there as can “you have to start by listening to MEMBERS
make it. your children and understanding
In the people management their lives."
aspect of my day job I strive to keep To be successful in an
at the forefront of my mind the increasingly volatile, uncertain,
following: complex, ambiguous world, we
He aha te mea nui o te ao. He need people who can provide vision,
tāngata, he tāngata, he tāngata understanding, clarity and agility.
What is the most important If we focus on agility, there is a
thing in the world? It is people, it need for a collaborative approach
is people, it is people. to rapid change and adaptation.
Through the WasteMINZ conference Rapid trust is also important. Think
theme, it is also great to be how much easier it is to get things
reminded of the following: done when you are working with
Toitū te whenua someone you trust.
whatungarongaro he tāngata I am looking forward to robust
The land remains when people debate at this year’s conference
have disappeared. around some of the challenges
WasteMINZ provides the perfect facing not only the waste industry
place to come together to solve (which tends to look to solve
today’s problems in a way that will problems created by others)
left-to-right top, middle, bottom
not jeopardise the future. What we but also waste producers. These Darren Patterson CHAIR
leave behind us, our legacy, is te taiao include container deposit schemes, darren@pattersonenvironmental.co.nz
(the environment), but it is also the expansion of the waste levy, in- Simonne Eldridge DEPUT Y CHAIR
future guardians of the environment, country processing needs and seldridge@tonkin.co.nz
te tāngata (the people). How do we industry-led collaboration as an Wayne Plummer
wayne.plummer@environz.co.nz
want to guide the next generation to essential role in the transition to the
equip them for the future? Equally circular economy. Parul Sood
parul.sood@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz
importantly, what do we need to Let’s collectively put our heads
Ian Stupple
learn from across the generations to together to solve the problems of
ianstupple@gmail.com
influence what we do now? tomorrow before we create them.
At a recent intermediate school Mā te wā
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WASTEMINZ CONFERENCE FEATURED SPEAKERS
Never has a conference been so topical. If you want to help shape the future
of New Zealand's waste, resource recovery and contaminated land sectors,
you need to be in Hamilton, 23-26 September 2019. Full programme and
event details are available here: wasteminz.org.nz/conference
Dan Hikuroa Robert Kelman Dru Marsh
Ngāti Maniapoto, Waikato-Tainui, President, Reloop Pacific, Senior Legal Policy Officer, Environmental
Senior Lecturer, Te Wananga o Australia Protection Authority, Australia
Waipapa, University of Auckland Best practice container A new approach to an old issue: Victoria’s
Toitū te whenua, whatungarongaro deposit schemes – lessons transformed contaminated land laws
he tangata – insights from indigenous from over the ditch and legal implications for development
ways of knowing and doing and management of brownfield sites
Hon. Eugenie Sage Kiri Hannifin Nicky McIndoe
Associate Minister General Manager, Corporate Affairs, Partner, Kensington Swan
for the Environment Quality, Safety & Sustainability, An RMA perspective on waste
Countdown Supermarkets management and contaminated land:
Rebel with a cause The Northern Corridor Improvements
Project as a case study
Douglas Woodring Kelli Sullivan Mark Bayer
Founder + Managing Director, Ocean Communications and Stakeholder President, Bayer Strategic Consulting, USA
Recovery Alliance, Hong Kong Manager, NZ Transport Agency Connect before you communicate: Keys
Plastic – the material that binds the planet How to plan and deliver effective for mastering difficult conversations
engagement strategies
WELCOME TO OUR NEW MEMBERS
SILVER SMALL BUSINESS INDIVIDUAL
Coca-Cola Amatil Acticycle Environmental Laura Banasiak
CORPORATE Ashbec Trading Vicktoria Blake
CRL Energy e3scientific Todd O'Hara
Kaipara District Council Earth Starch Gregory Selman
Spark Earthtech Consulting STUDENT
Envirokiwi Community Enterprise Deron Sharma
Position Partners New Zealand
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31ST ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2 3 - 2 6 S E P TE M B E R | H A M I LTO N 7
MOVERS & SHAKERS
NIGEL DONOVAN SHAUN LEWIS
KAIARATAKI MATUA/SENIOR POLICY ANALYST WITHIN HONO TĀTAKI, DIRECTOR, MANA HONOHONO
RESOURCE EFFICIENCY & INNOVATION TEAM - INVESTMENTS AND PARTNERSHIPS
Nigel Donovan has recently joined the Ministry for the Shaun Lewis leads the Ministry for the Environment’s
Environment and works with Scott Priestley in the work programme to accelerate New Zealand’s
Ministry’s compliance monitoring and enforcement team. transition to a circular economy. His directorate
Nigel is a key contact for councils and disposal facility takes an innovative approach to policy-making
operators when dealing with the requirements of the utilising regulatory levers, strategic investments, and
Waste Minimisation Act 2008. Nigel moved from Auckland partnering with stakeholders and change-makers.
Council where he was a senior consents monitoring officer. Prior to working at the Ministry for the Environment,
He has worked closely with all classes of landfill and Shaun worked for the Environmental Protection
Authority as a project leader within the resources team
landfill operators, communities impacted by large scale
responsible for managing the consenting process for
landfills and clean fills, and local and central government
Proposals of National Significance.
stakeholders. He is also part of the team working on
the landfill levy expansion and will also be involved in
the Ministry’s compliance assurance programme.
TRISH HURLEY ROWAN LATHAM
Trish has recently taken over the role of operations Rowan recently joined Christchurch City Council as
manager at Waitaki Resource Recovery Trust. Previously contract and projects lead with their solid waste team.
she was the site administrator/manager. She has been Rowan brings his international local government
working at WRRT for 12 years in a variety of roles and experience (Australia and UK) to the role, along with three
has recently completed her level 5 National Certificate in and a half years as a senior advisor at the Canterbury
Adult Literacy and Numeracy. WRRT works closely with Regional Council, Environment Canterbury. His experience
the local council and schools to help reduce, reuse and delivering complex waste minimisation and resource
recycle as much as they can. WRRT are undergoing a site recovery projects will help develop the scope of this
redevelopment to enhance customers’ enjoyment of newly established position, with a number of interesting
visiting their Get Sorted Shop and new garden centre. They initiatives in development. CCC are delivering a new
run a variety of programmes, including the Bike Project for waste minimisation and management plan this year
children and are the lead agency in the workplace literacy and investigating options for an innovative inner-city
programme in North Otago. Trish can be contacted at collection programme. Rowan has been an active member
Trish@resourcewaitaki.co.nz. of the Canterbury Waste Joint Committee staff group and
WasteMINZ, regularly presenting at conference, and as a
member of the WasteMINZ Sector Group for Disposal to
Land. Rowan can be contacted at
rowan.latham@ccc.govt.nz.
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SCOTT PRIESTLEY RODERICK BOYS STUART MCKAY
KAIWHAKAHAERE /MANAGER, KAIARATAKI MATUA/SENIOR POLICY KAIWHAKAHAERE /MANAGER,
HONO TĀTAKI, RESOURCE EFFICIENCY ANALYST WITHIN HONO TĀTAKI, RESOURCE HONO TĀTAKI, RESOURCE EFFICIENCY
& INNOVATION EFFICIENCY & INNOVATION TEAM & INNOVATION
Scott Priestley manages the Roderick Boys joined the Ministry Stuart McKay manages the Waste
Ministry’s compliance monitoring for the Environment in February Minimisation Fund and has been with
and enforcement team. He brings and is lead on the National Resource the Ministry for the Environment
20 years experience in operational Recovery work programme. since September 2018. Stuart has
regulation, investigation, This work programme is to be 20 years + experience working for
enforcement and strategic planning implemented over the next three governments in Australia, the UK
at a state, federal and international years. It includes: a national and New Zealand across health,
level to the compliance, monitoring infrastructure analysis, review of environment and housing portfolios.
kerbside services, feasibility studies
and enforcement functions for the His experiences range from business
for on-shore processing of plastics
Waste Minimisation Act 2008. Scott matching environmental expertise to
and fibre, examining product
has contributed to the development companies looking to improve their
stewardship and other regulatory
and implementation of regulatory environmental performance in South
options for single use packaging,
programmes across protected East Asia, to managing investment
running a national education
area management, biodiversity, in health infrastructure, to leading
campaign to reduce contamination,
forestry, native vegetation, water, delegations to the Commission on
developing model contracts for the
minerals, coal and natural gas Sustainable Development at the
sector and developing a sustainable
reforms in NSW, Australia including United Nations headquarters in New
procurement plan/guideline.
the former Department of Climate York in the lead up to Rio +20. Stuart
Roderick has come from Wellington
Change at the Australian Federal City Council where he was the co- has been on both sides of the funding
Government and the development chair of the Wellington Region Waste process – prior to joining the Ministry
of Environmental Crime Programme Minimisation and Management Plan he worked closely with community
for INTERPOL steering group, and he was on the groups in his home town of Carterton
WasteMINZ Board. to help them access community
development funding.
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THE RISE &
FALL OF THE S
INGLE-USE SHAMING (verb):
the act of stigmatising a
SINGLE-USE
person for failing to take
their own reusable bag,
coffee cup or water bottle, or for failing
CUP
to refuse a plastic straw, stirrer or
other single-use item.
You may not be familiar with
the term but many of you will be
familiar with the sentiment. It’s the
The search for replacements to single- time you bumped into a friend at
the local farmer’s market and they
use coffee cups is on, with cup libraries, couldn’t quite meet your eyes and
plastic-free and edible cups vying for first kept their hands out of sight behind
place as credible alternatives. their back.
10Enter the cup library
If you have ever rushed out between
Suddenly they blurted out, “I’m
meetings for a coffee and realised
sorry, I forgot my reusable cup! I
your reusable coffee cup is still at Edible options
know how you feel about these,” For those of you who like a sweet
home, you can avoid being single-use
as they sheepishly brought their treat with your coffee, an edible cup
shamed by your colleagues if your
disposable coffee cup into sight. by Kiwi family business Twiice will
favourite cafe has a coffee cup library.
“Hey, no judgement here,” you said. hit the spot. It has taken them four
From walls and crates of
But you both knew that not-so- years but they have now developed
eclectic ceramic mugs to regionally
secretly you were in fact judging a tasty cup that lasts as long as
based models using a standardised
them — your friend had just been your coffee does and can be eaten
cup, there is a system for almost
single-use shamed. or composted. It’s the coffee cup
everyone, apart from those cafes
While single-use shaming may equivalent of the ice cream cone and
that have no sterilising system and
be on the rise, with an estimated it may just revolutionise takeaway
are therefore not licensed to sell
295,000,000 disposable coffee coffee — as long as Kiwis can wean
coffee in reusable cups.
cups used per year in Aotearoa, themselves off the ubiquitous coffee
A recent development has been
the search has also been on for a cup lid.
the regionally based coffee cup reuse
better vessel.
systems CupCycling™ and Again
Fibre cups with a plastic lining Single-use cups – are
Again. CupCycling™ was started by
and lid initially seemed to be a good
New Zealand reusable-cup pioneers
they here to stay?
solution, until it became apparent There is a lot of passionate
Stephanie and Nick Fry of the
that coffee dregs contaminated opposition to single-use coffee cups,
Motueka-based Ideal Cup. This system
other recyclables and separating and with good reason. Some brave
is available for single cafes, corporate
the plastic lining for recycling was cafes have chosen to do without
cafes or a cluster of cafes in a street,
uneconomic. them already (Otago Polytech’s Eden
suburb, town or region.
Compostable cups hold Cafe, Sign of the Kiwi in Christchurch
Again Again was started by
promise but have also proven to and Indies in Raglan), but it is
Wellingtonian Nadia Piatek and is
be problematic, as composting difficult to envisage a time when all
available on a region-only basis.
facilities cannot always process cafes just simply refuse to use them,
For both systems cafes pay a
them. There was quite the unless it was legislated.
monthly fee and customers pay a
storm in a single-use coffee So while we should encourage
membership or cup fee to borrow
cup when Wellington’s Capital innovative single-use cups with
a cup.
Compost recently announced it better waste outcomes, supporting
To avoid customers stockpiling
could no longer accept certified cup reuse systems and encouraging
cups, both systems require another
compostable coffee cups because coffee cup libraries is a better bet.
cup fee or deposit if the original cup
its organic certification precludes If we can do without our single-
is not returned and another cup
any bioplastic inputs. use shopping bags, we can likewise
is borrowed. This should provide
Thus the search continues and learn to live without our single-use
an incentive to remember to take
in 2018 the international OpenIDEO cups. And if we do, one day that bin
cups back — if not it could become
issued a NextGen Cup Challenge overflowing with coffee cups will
an expensive way of avoiding
for recoverable fibre-based cups. become a relic of the past that we
single-use shaming. Cafes can opt
This resulted in eight winners in the look back on in disbelief. R
to use reusable or disposable lids
cup liner category, including some
for CupCycling™; Again Again cups
plastic-free options that may be References
require a heat-proof disposable
acceptable to composting facilities bit.ly/nextgencupchallenge
cardboard sleeve.
in Aotearoa that have organic bit.ly/findcoffeecuplibrary
These schemes obviously
certification, so watch this space.
work, with the recorded number
of cups diverted from landfill for
CupCycling™ so far sitting at 76,763.
31ST ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2 3 - 2 6 S E P TE M B E R | H A M I LTO N 11WASTE DATA
AN OUTSIDER'S PERSPECTIVE
Dr Rachel Chiaroni-Clarke of the Office of
the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor
has been analysing New Zealand’s waste
data. She shares what data is needed to truly
understand and solve our plastic crisis.
I
’VE BEEN ON A mission to Systematic data We need to know more
find out how much plastic collection is needed than gross tonnages
comes into Aotearoa New As members of the waste industry, The majority of available data
Zealand and where it ends up. I’m sure it comes as no surprise on landfilled or recycled plastic
My hunt for data forms part of the to you that we are lacking an is limited to a tonnage value.
Rethinking Plastics project by the aggregated national dataset housing Capturing additional data has
Office of the Prime Minister’s Chief the information I’m hunting for. This the potential to support better
Science Advisor, which will provide urgently needs to change. Aotearoa management of plastic in Aotearoa
government with a summary of New Zealand needs accurate, high- New Zealand by better supporting
the evidence and accompanying quality data as the foundation of our evidence-informed decisions.
recommendations on ways to system-wide rethink of how we use Because all plastic products
mitigate the issues related to and dispose of plastic. aren’t equally recyclable, knowing
plastics. The waste industry’s role here which resin types and colours
Our project is guided by a panel is crucial. Coordinated, systematic are used is key. The best publicly
of experts from wide-ranging and ongoing collection and sharing available data on kerbside recycling
disciplines, and is further supported of data for recovered and waste composition differentiates by
by a broader group that has helped plastic is essential to inform and clear PET, natural HDPE and mixed
us through consultation and peer prioritise policy decisions, including plastics. This makes practical sense
review. Ahead of the full report, infrastructure investment. for the day-to-day business of
we’ve published the draft of Part I’ll briefly explain what I recycling because of the nature
1 of To what extent can we quantify think the waste industry can do of how bales are currently sold,
Aotearoa’s plastics footprint? New to help fill some of those gaps, but doesn’t allow us to really
Zealand’s data challenge, which and highlight some of the initial understand how much and which
provides a current snapshot of recommendations from our panel. types of plastic need to be managed
the available data and highlights differently.
knowledge gaps for plastic material
flow through Aotearoa New Zealand.
31ST ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2 3 - 2 6 S E P TE M B E R | H A M I LTO N 13Soon our country won’t be able The same goes for non- Now is the time
to rely on shipping mixed bales household waste plastic. Data
to start collecting
offshore, so more granular data is collection efforts need to include
better data
needed to inform decisions such the amount, types, colours,
A national data framework for
as whether government should contaminants and diversion
plastic is needed, but it won’t
restrict use of certain resin types potential of plastic in commercial
happen overnight and Aotearoa
or colours, invest in infrastructure recycling streams and non-
New Zealand simply cannot wait for
for secondary sorting, or move to a municipal landfills, making sure that
a perfect dataset before initiating
waste-to-energy approach to deal data is captured for other high-use
change. Our panel recommends that
with plastic at its end-of-life. industries such as construction and
a series of audits are undertaken
The diversion potential of plastic agriculture.
across the plastics supply chain
sent to landfill is useful information But beyond individual measures,
to give us a better baseline
that is often not recorded or what’s really needed is a co-
understanding of the plastics
disclosed. The current WasteMINZ ordinated approach across the
material flow through Aotearoa New
study auditing a nationally plastic value chain to capture data
Zealand. Particular effort should be
representative sample of household and make it accessible. That will
made to address knowledge gaps,
refuse and recycling streams is a require data collection throughout
such as how much plastic waste
great first step to address this data the full product lifecycle.
goes to non-municipal landfill and
gap. It would also be informative Measurements also need to
how much plastic that is sent for
for educational campaigns and include information about recycled
recycling actually ends up in landfill.
policy decisions to have data on content, reuse potential for multi-
From there, a framework
the types of plastic that commonly use systems, industry, source and
for the ongoing collection of
contaminate the recycling stream end market (local or overseas),
information on plastics across the
and are then sent to landfill. location and average lifetime of the
product.value chain should be built. One Aotearoa New We’re at a pivotal point where we
way to approach this could be for can rethink how we use plastics to
Zealand’s plastic data
stakeholders to disclose their data reduce the negative impacts while
can guide our shift to a
to an independent third party, retaining its many benefits. Let’s
to be aggregated into a national
new plastics economy seize the opportunity!
I think one of the biggest
dataset that is easily accessible for Look out for our full report later
opportunities for better data on
policymakers and the public. in the year. R
plastic use and disposal in Aotearoa
An aggregated national dataset
New Zealand is that it can support
will also allow government to
and guide the transition to a circular
supply more accurate waste data to
economy for plastics. The waste
the OECD and other international
industry has an important role here
organisations, and hold ourselves
— you can support manufacturers
accountable to targets related
and brand owners to establish Dr Rachel Chiaroni-Clarke is the research
to plastic use and waste, such as
circular solutions for products, analyst and writer leading the Rethinking
those agreed to in the NZ Plastics Plastics in Aotearoa New Zealand project
particularly with your knowledge
Packaging Declaration and the for the Office of the Prime Minister’s Chief
of the various recovery techniques Science Advisor. Through this project,
New Plastics Economy Global
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Commitment. The National Waste of plastics, spending months analysing the
plastic materials in circulation, and evidence, consulting with stakeholders
Data Framework is a great start
their associated environmental across Aotearoa, and working with the
for data collection for the waste project’s expert panel.
impacts.
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A CHOICE
AN OPT-IN OPTION FOR ORGANICS COLLECTION
Kitty Waghorn describes what happened when
Waimakariri District Council gave their ratepayers
the choice of opting in for an organics collection and
switching from rubbish bags to rubbish bins.
T
WO YEARS AGO the Tendering We also wanted to minimise the
safety risks of providing a manual
Waimakariri District uncertainties
Council embarked on collection service, to be able to track
Without any solid evidence of
an ambitious journey to trucks and bin pickups, and ideally
potential uptake, we estimated that
tender for our kerbside collection to be able to see via a recording why
50 per cent of serviced properties
services and solid waste facilities a bin might not have been picked up,
would opt in for rubbish and
operations. so that our call centre staff could
organics bins, and the rest would
It was ambitious because we respond to customer complaints
continue to use bags or private
chose to offer an opt-in rubbish and from a position of certainty.
collectors.
organics bin service to ratepayers, in In short, we needed a contractor
To minimise the uncertainty,
addition to the existing rubbish bag with the flexibility to manage
bands of bin numbers were created
and recycling bin collections, with a uncertainties and fluctuations, who
to allow the contractors to price
choice of three bin sizes for organics had a strong customer and health
different levels of resourcing for
and two bin sizes for rubbish. and safety focus, was responsive to
each scenario, so they wouldn’t
An opt-in service was chosen as changes in technology and diversion
carry all the risks if the predicted
many of the private collectors are markets and committed to working
uptake differed from actual uptake.
local businesses and the council with the council to minimise waste.
This also allowed the council to
wanted to ensure they could stay in ascertain the cost implications from
business.
Managing residents
an increase or drop in bin numbers
While tendering documents were
and bag use.
being prepared, the council got
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preliminary choices. Owners of all for reciprocal questions. We used opted in for rubbish bins, which
18,050 properties were sent a post- the Price Quality Method, in which was more than we had budgeted
paid multi-choice barcoded card to assessments are made by using for, with 42 per cent sticking
tick and return within six weeks, or weightings of 70 per cent for non- with bags or private collectors or
they could go online and enter their price attributes and 30 per cent for dealing with their own waste.
choice with their unique code from pricing. The non-price assessment • Our initial estimate for additional
the card. was completed before the price bins was 10 per cent of those
The scanned cards and the envelopes were opened. initially requested, but to date
online submissions were linked The collection and facilities it is an additional 53 per cent
to a database with property contracts were both awarded increase for organics bins and
addresses and their service choices. to Waste Management in early households and a 62 per cent
We received responses for 9680 December 2018, and then the real increase for rubbish bins.
properties with the following complications set in.
An opt-in service provides a
choices: Property owners were reminded
challenge for councils and their
• 5650 organics bins early in February of their choice, or
contractors. One of the downsides
• 6785 rubbish bins lack of choice, and invited to change
is that it doesn’t necessarily cater to
• 2920 status quo for rubbish. their selection, if required, by
rental properties, whose landlords
However, we did not receive 1 March. Waste Management then
may not opt in on tenants’ behalf.
completed forms for 46 per cent of received the details so they could
If a compulsory system is not
properties. finalise bin orders, prepare their
being implemented, perhaps an
While this gave us an indication, delivery schedules and deliver bins
opt-out service is the next best
we still had no firm idea of final before 1 July.
option, as this means only those
numbers, so another 10 per cent was For the contractor this was a
opposed to getting or paying for
added into the tender document, district-sized jigsaw, with some
bins will choose not to have them.
along with the band we expected to properties not getting bins and
This reduces the risk to the council
start with for each waste stream, some getting one or other of the
by having more certainty about the
container type and bin size, and a bin types. When you throw in two
number of properties that will be
higher and lower band for bin and different bin sizes for rubbish and
rated for the service. R
bag numbers. Tenderers were invited three for organics, it gets really
to suggest different bands if that complicated.
better reflected when resource levels
And the final results?
would change for them.
• 48 per cent of eligible households
Four tenderers provided
opted in for an organics bin,
competitive two-envelope bids
which was more or less what was
and were invited to present to the
budgeted for.
assessment panel and probity
Kitty Waghorn is the Waimakariri District
Council’s solid waste asset manager. Her role
in Waimakariri has changed considerably
over the past 20 or so years and she now
concentrates on solid waste contracts
and asset management, and on waste
minimisation projects and education. She is
involved in steering groups that cover waste
management and minimisation projects in
Canterbury, which included management of
post-earthquake demolition and hazardous
wastes after the Canterbury earthquakes,
and New Zealand-wide projects (e.g., Love
Food Hate Waste), and is a trustee of the
Sustainable Living Education Trust.
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USING LEARNING
TEAMS TO
ENHANCE
ORGANISATIONAL
LEARNING
AND WORKER
ENGAGEMENT
20Greg Dearsly explains what a learning came about. Stakeholders from
the industry, territorial authorities,
team is and describes a learning team community groups and, most
process initiated by the WasteMINZ importantly, workers involved in the
Health and Safety Sector Group Steering use of these vehicles, were invited to
participate.
Committee in response to an incident
involving a waste collection truck. What is a
learning team?
A learning team is a facilitated
I
conversation between those who
T’S FAIR to say that workplaces behaviour and point of view about do the work and those who design
have a level of commitment to how work happens. These different the work to enable the sharing of
ensuring the health and safety perspectives change what you look operational intelligence between
of all stakeholders exposed to at in the work environment and what the two groups and improve system
the work that is done as part of the you do to make problems go away. design.
organisation’s activities, but what As a result of an incident The learning team process
knowledge do we have about how involving a waste collection truck, recognises that team-based learning
work happens? WorkSafe NZ provided the industry is the best way to understand a
We all look at work through with some guidance about what particular problem and that a
a different lens. If you are in a could be done to improve safety significant contributor to such a
management role you’re viewing in relation to these vehicles. The team must include the workers who
work from the perspective of industry agreed it could come up are involved in the work.
organisational success, contractual with other approaches that would For learning teams to deliver
obligations and logistics; if you’re have more impact on reducing risk the best results the following is
a front-line worker your context is with these vehicles. important:
that the organisation is the place During discussions at a • Learning teams should be
where you perform your duties to WasteMINZ Health and Safety an unstructured and organic
enable you to make a living. Sector Group Steering Committee process.
Or you might be another type meeting in late 2018, the group • Understanding is needed that
of stakeholder, maybe an industry considered these risk reduction ‘work as done’ is not a linear
association, territorial authority methods and a suggestion was made process but a dynamic activity
or community safety group to engage a group of stakeholders to and that the best way to
representing the interests of the discuss the safety issues related to understand the complexities of
community, ratepayers or road these vehicles. It was here that the work is to have open discussions
users. Your context drives your proposal to facilitate a learning team about those complexities.
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NORMAL WORK in discovery mode; this is when the public. The knowledge that was
FROM THOSE focus is solely on learning. It is not an obtained from the process was
WHO DO THE environment to edit or argue about gained through the power of asking
WORK CAN NOT what is right or wrong – the group is better questions.
ONLY HELP WITH simply in a situation of discovery. There were learnings about
If the group jumps from learning conditions in the workplace
ORGANISATIONAL mode to problem-solving mode, experienced by drivers and
PERFORMANCE, IT learning stops. The intent of this bystanders on collection day. The
WILL MAKE YOUR process is to help the organisation group learnt about mistakes that
BUSINESS MORE become wiser. Not knowing about operators made; remember, error
KNOWLEDGEABLE aspects of how work happens is a is a normal part of the human
AND BETTER AT powerful position to be in: it means condition.
MAKING DECISIONS. the business has the potential Attendees were asked to discuss
to find out more and knowing is situations where they had to be
• Before trying to resolve issues, more powerful, making learning a extra vigilant or where they had
we first need to understand work deliberate improvement strategy. to innovate or improvise. These
as done. questions are designed to enable
While learning teams achieve the
Learning team a better understanding of work as
best outcomes when they are example actually done.
unstructured, there are some key The learning team that was When the discussions were
components to consider, starting facilitated for the WasteMINZ Health transcribed, there were five areas
with having a clear understanding and Safety Sector Group Steering where trends had developed in
and agreement about the goals for Committee identified a number relation to the operation of these
the process. of areas where there was more to vehicles. Those included capacity
learn about operating the vehicles in
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Some key takeaways that make sure
road conditions and configuration; good and bad news, or that change
a learning team is a success are as
the rules, regulations and is required. Learning is a deliberate
follows:
procedures that have to be followed; action that needs to be taken to
• A learning team needs to be
and the equipment itself. understand what you don’t already
conducted in a manner where
After this first session the group know. R
all contributions are valued,
was sent away to think, process and
without judgement.
reflect on what had been learnt, and
• The sessions need to be safe Reference
the group reconvened a week later
environments where everyone Conklin, T. (2016). Better questions: An applied
for session two.
is free to communicate their approach to operational learning.
This second session needs to
context without fear of
start in learning mode. Its purpose
repercussion.
is to refresh and remember what
had been learnt in session one, then • Learning is a corrective measure;
brainstorm possible solutions for it makes us smarter and more
the areas that had been identified as informed and has value.
needing further development. • When you get better at learning
As a result of this process, you have more knowledge and Greg Dearsly is the owner of First 4 Safety
Ltd and has been providing business with
WasteMINZ is prioritising the therefore you make better
workplace safety and health advice for
opportunities and looking at decisions. It is vital and primary 18 years. He holds a Graduate Diploma
potential sources of funding to to fixing problems. in Occupational Safety and Health from
Massey University and in 2018 began
assist with the development of Many businesses say they are a studying for a Master’s in Advanced
these improvements. learning organisation and that’s a Leadership Practices.
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LAND MANAGEMENT
FRAMEWORK
A CONSULTANT’S PERSPECTIVE
Simon Hunt outlines the challenge of providing
contaminated land advice in the absence of sufficient
government policy, regulation and guidance.
S
ELLING TECHNICALLY A tricky task a consistent national level playing
accurate and commercially Depending on the nature of the work field in the form of a coherent
focused contaminated land being undertaken, providing the contaminated land management
management advice is the correct advice can be a tricky task framework. This lack of consistency
life blood of a contaminated land because of the absence of strong creates confusion and typically
consultant. The advice given takes government policy and regulation generates a case-by-case situation
many forms, including due diligence (and mixed enforcement), operating that is time consuming and costly
supporting property purchase or standards that are current and up- for all involved.
sale, investigation and remediation to-date guidance.
of sites as part of redevelopment,
Progress made
Unfortunately, the New Zealand
regulatory compliance and liability contaminated land industry (which
in the 1990s
management for corporates. These issues are not new in
includes a range of stakeholders
Most of the advice given aims the context of management of
and practitioners) doesn’t have all
to minimise the cost of dealing contaminated land in New Zealand.
the necessary policy directives and
with contaminated land issues and I fell off the proverbial boat and
management tools available to
achieve regulatory compliance – landed in Auckland in 1993 and, from
deliver what would be considered
rarely are there real human health a contaminated land perspective,
best practice and fit-for-purpose for
and/or environmental risks, with it was an exciting time. I felt New
the New Zealand market.
much of the work undertaken being Zealand was ahead of the United
Some readers may disagree or
routine. Kingdom, from where I originated.
ask why is this the case? My answer
is simple – because we don’t have
24The Resource Management Contaminants in Soil to Protect
Act had just been enacted, an Human Health (NES-CS) that was THIS STOP WORK
integrated series of contaminated regulated in 2011 and gave us Soil SITUATION
land guidance was being developed, Contaminant Standards (SCSs) for AND ABSENCE
liability issues were being a select number of contaminants OF ‘JOINED UP
considered, the building regulations and the term 'suitably qualified and
THINKING’ BETWEEN
had taken steps to address experienced practitioner' (SQEP).
contaminated site issues and central
THE MANAGEMENT
government was actively focused on Foundations built OF CONTAMINATED
contaminated land management but work stalled LAND AND RAFT OF
and showed strong leadership. This initial work, as I understand it, OTHER VARIABLES
Things weren’t perfect, but there was meant to be the first building THAT INFLUENCE
was change and a roadmap. blocks and foundation for a national
contaminated land management
THE DECISION-
As a benchmark, I recommend
framework; however, work seems
MAKING PROCESSES
reading Michael Szabo’s 1993 article
in the New Scientist, New Zealand’s to have stopped on this building ON HOW BEST
Poisoned Paradise, or consider the project. TO MANAGE
positive effects the sequence of This stop work situation and CONTAMINATED
guidelines developed by central absence of ‘joined up thinking’ SITES HAS CREATED
and local government and the between the management of PERVERSE
oil industry in the 1990s had on contaminated land and raft of
other variables that influence the
OUTCOMES AND
standardising work and minimising
decision-making processes on how
FRUSTRATED
effects.
The move towards establishing a best to manage contaminated sites STAKEHOLDERS, AND
coherent management framework has created perverse outcomes and OFTEN RESULTED
waned in the early 2000s. There frustrated stakeholders, and often IN POOR DECISION
was a revised focus in 2006/2007 resulted in poor decision making. MAKING
with the release of the Ministry for At the same time, as an
the Environment’s Working towards industry, I sense we are kicking the
a comprehensive policy framework ‘contaminated land can’ down the
for managing contaminated land road, and all too often are focused
in New Zealand – Position paper. on dealing with de minimis issues
This was the catalyst for the rather than addressing the more
National Environmental Standard significant ones.
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Improvements can be made through contaminants. Environmental Practitioner —
addressing issues such as the • More frequent use of Tier 2 Site Contamination Specialist),
following: human health risk assessment but it really needs central and
• Better policy, regulation needs to be undertaken and local government to endorse
and advice on landfilling of documented in accordance the scheme and for industry to
contaminated soil – New with specific protocols. While back it through procurement
Zealand’s preferred remedial available overseas, they are initiatives.
method because of cost, but is not necessarily followed in • Existing regulation and guidance
it sustainable? Doesn’t it seem New Zealand, hence guidance are principally focused on soil
odd to place large volumes of low to direct practitioners on best impacts (other than several
level asbestos-contaminated practice and assist regulators is regional council groundwater
topsoil into engineered landfills? needed. rules) rather than the ultimate
A change in the landfill levy would • The NES-CS introduced the receiving environment
drive more sustainable outcomes, term SQEP to improve the (groundwater, surface water and
significantly change the industry quality of the work and assist sediment). Better guidance and
approach and hopefully save a regulators in understanding regulation are needed to address
valuable resource. who is competent. The wider the interactions between
• New Zealand’s specific guidance contaminated industry these media and protect these
has served us well over the stepped up (through a receiving environments —
years, but it needs a refresh to WasteMINZ initiative) and particularly given their ecological
make it current. The list of SCSs facilitated the generation of and cultural importance.
needs expanding to address the a trans-Tasman practitioner • Improvements to the NES-CS
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References
be in the pipeline — we just need the future Ministry for the Environment. (2007).
them to be released! Dealing with these issues creates a Working towards a comprehensive policy
• Retrospective liability and challenge in providing contaminated framework for managing contaminated land
polluter pays approaches land advice and making informed in New Zealand – Position paper.
are always fraught topics decisions, not just for consultants, Resource management (National
of discussion for central but for all interested stakeholders environmental standard for assessing and
government and industry, as – regulators, landowners, industry, managing contaminants in soil to protect
is the duty to report concept. insurers, banks, suppliers, vendors, human health) regulations 2011.
However, our current liability etc. Hence there is a need for Szabo, M. (1993). New Zealand’s poisoned
approach of buyer beware, a national contaminated land paradise. New Scientist.
coupled with historic loose management framework to provide
assessment or remediation of a road map and keep us honest.
contaminated sites, effects- But then if it was easy, life would
based legislation, lack of be boring; dealing with a challenge
reporting and remediation gets you out of bed in the morning.
principally driven by One last wish would be one central
redevelopment is likely to create agency dealing with contaminated Simon Hunt is a founding member of EHS
Support New Zealand Ltd. He has over
future management problems as land management – but probably 30 years of international contaminated
regulation and guidance become not in my working lifetime. R land experience gained as a consultant,
in industry and as a contractor. He has
stricter, particularly when you
been intimately involved in developing
throw emerging contaminants central and local government policy and
or changes to contaminant regulation on contaminated sites and has
contributed to the preparation of various
toxicities into the mix. contaminated land guidelines.GOVERNMENT
PROPOSED
REGULATED PRODUCT
STEWARDSHIP SCHEME
HAVE YOUR SAY!
The consultation process provides an opportunity for
WasteMINZ members to shape the future direction of
product stewardship in this country.
C
ONSULTATION WasteMINZ's Product WasteMINZ members can add
HAS opened on the Stewardship Sector Group value throughout this process, from
government’s proposed is looking forward to this the submission stage to future co-
regulated product opportunity. In 2018, 96 per cent creation and working collaboratively
stewardship programme, which of WasteMINZ members surveyed with the government.
will put greater accountability on voted in favour of regulated
producers for what happens to product stewardship. A decisive Ministerial
products at the end of their life cycle. approach to product stewardship announcement
is what some members have At the launch of the consultation on
Consultation runs from
been seeking for some time and 9 August, Associate Environment
9 August until 4 October and
the Ministry has clearly indicated Minister Eugenie Sage’s message was
WasteMINZ encourages members
that consultation is the first step clear: the focus is on partnership.
to take part in the process. "This
towards regulation. Producers of priority products,
is the ideal chance for members
The outcome from the current stakeholders involved in the product’s
to become informed, and to share
consultation will be the setting life cycle and other interested parties
their thoughts with the Ministry
of a framework for regulated should make submissions with a view
for the Environment regarding
product stewardship, the potential to actively being involved in potential
the proposed priority products
declaration of certain products as next steps.
and how these products will be
priority products, the issuance of The Associate Minister said that
managed through a regulated
guidelines which set expectations New Zealand has not yet used the
product stewardship scheme" says
for accredited product stewardship regulated product stewardship tools
WasteMINZ CE Janine Brinsdon.
schemes, and the chance to work in the Waste Minimisation Act.
The relevant WasteMINZ sector
with stakeholders to co-design, “Product stewardship has so
groups will be making submissions
monitor scheme outcomes and far been voluntary and while it has
and members are also encouraged
make and enforce any necessary produced some benefits it has not
to make their own individual or
regulations. significantly reduced the risk of
company submission.
harm from these products.”
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