Why act on Waste?
- Save money. Reducing waste levels can reduce costs.
- Increase customer service. Provide end of life solutions to make it easy for your customers to recycle, repair and reuse your products.
- Increase customer engagement throughout the lifecycle of your products, including the end of life phase.
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- The shift to a circular economy is cited in the Emissions Reduction Plan and Draft Waste Strategy.
- Product stewardship (Regulated product stewardship | Ministry for the Environment) isn’t just about end of life but care (customer service and engagement) throughout the life of the product ie. As well as end of life solutions, need to talk about service throughout the life (repair, servicing etc).
- Meet customer expectations. Increasingly customers are demanding action from businesses to reduce waste. The demand is to reduce waste during the production of the product or carrying out of the service, but also at end of life
- Carbon Neutral Government Programme agencies must report on their waste to landfill figures.
- The waste levy rate for landfills is being increased over four years from the current $10 per tonne – set in 2009 – to $60 per tonne by July 2024.
- Regulated product stewardship is being introduced for six 'priority' products. It will make businesses responsible for the following products when they reach end of life:
- plastic packaging
- tyres
- electrical and electronic products (e-waste including large batteries)
- agrichemicals and their containers
- refrigerants
- farm plastics