Zero Waste: New Zealand

Governmental

• 48 (or 66%) of New Zealand Councils have adopted a ’Zero Waste’ policy, most with targets of 2015.

• The Ministry for the Environment published the National Waste Strategy, ’Towards zero waste and a sustainable New Zealand’, in March 2002. New Zealand is the first country in the world to have a national policy of ’towards Zero Waste’.

Non-Governmental

• Zero Waste New Zealand Trust was established in 1997 to "encourage and motivate all sectors of New Zealand society to work towards a target of zero waste".

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