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Rob Langford Chair the Packaging Forum winter 2018 Edition 15 The Packaging Word is the official publication of The Packaging Forum | packagingforum.org.nz EDITORIAL Rob Langford Chair The Packaging Forum HE RECYCLING industry percentages of glass cullet (recycled compost their packaging and around the world is in turmoil. glass) in its wine bottles in the world as is evident from the “pass on TChina’s decision to stop taking which we can rightly be proud of. plastic” campaigns, they expect the world’s paper and plastic We are also extremely proud that brands to take responsibility. It is waste has seen tonnes of paper in renewing the accreditation of the not enough for companies to say and plastic building up at recycle Glass Packaging Recycling Scheme, that “our packaging is recyclable”. centres around the country. the Minister acknowledged the The container/packaging may be Recycling contracts for councils important contribution it makes to recyclable but only if we put in and for commercial businesses waste minimisation. place and help fund the systems to are based on the collector recycle it. This is the same for new Following investment by Flight generating revenue from the sale compostable packaging which needs Plastics and the Waste Minimisation of the collected materials. With the right collection and processing Fund, there is now domestic the world’s recyclers vying for systems in place to allow it to be processing of clear PET bottles processing markets, the cost of composted, otherwise it simply and trays into recycled PET food recycling has gone up and the value becomes another waste stream. containers. This plant has the of the materials has gone down. I urge you to read the discussion capacity to take all the clear PET paper by the Waste Management Minister Sage has committed recycled at kerbside around New Institute of New Zealand to supporting more onshore Zealand as demand for RPET (WasteMINZ) Rebooting Recycling. processing facilities in New Zealand packaging increases. What we need What can Aotearoa do? through the latest round of the urgently are domestic processing Waste Minimisation Fund. This plants that can take mixed paper; We’re learning all the time. As is welcome. There is alignment coloured PET plastic 1; and plastics managers of the soft plastic across industry, local and central 2-7 or to transition away from using recycling scheme, we are now part government that New Zealand must these materials. of the collection and recycling invest in its own recycling solutions service industry and we fund the For our existing processors, we need so that it is not reliant on overseas costs from members’ fees. There to improve the quality of collected markets. is no commercial value to post- materials so that they receive paper, consumer soft plastic materials Last month Minister Sage visited glass and PET of the right quality and increasingly we will pay the Auckland’s Materials Recovery and the minimum waste. The best processor to take the waste. Over Facility at Visy and the glass results come from single stream 70% of New Zealanders have access manufacturing plant at O-I NZ collection systems. We also need to to the service and we are committed in Penrose to follow the process look at the logistics of moving waste to sustaining this and expanding of how waste glass containers around the country to the end user. it further. In May, Minister Sage collected from kerbside around This is not someone else’s problem, also approved the accreditation of New Zealand are remanufactured we must own the solution. the soft plastics recycling scheme into glass bottles. New Zealand Consumers want to recycle or under the Waste Minimisation Act. boasts one of the highest packagingforum.org.nz | glasspackagingforum.org.nz | recycling.kiwi.nz To make the scheme sustainable we to make this economically viable. need to develop onshore processing We need to work with the recycling hot off solutions and start buying the and composting industry to ensure products made from our recycled that the packaging which we use the press! waste to create demand. is recyclable or compostable in New Zealand. RADIO LIVE The government and a number COMPOSTABLE of New Zealand and international The Packaging Forum is in the unique companies have signed a declaration situation of operating and managing PACKAGING JUST to reduce plastic packaging waste three accredited voluntary product AS DETRIMENTAL AS focussing on the redesign of stewardship schemes. We now PLASTIC BAGS? packaging so it contains recycled need to up our game and make materials and is recyclable or changes to our packaging so that it bit.ly/RadioLive-compostable- compostable by 2025. aligns with what can be processed packaging here and help develop our onshore At our AGM in July we will set You can’t just throw all processors by changing our our members a challenge for compostable packaging away procurement practices so that we “all packaging to be recyclable and expect it to biodegrade. Kim buy packaging and products that and diverted from landfill by contain New Zealand recycled Renshaw from Beyond the Bin 2025”. To achieve this will require materials. joins James Coleman on First@5 changes to packaging design but to discuss New Zealand’s need to as importantly the availability of We invite you to join us and help us facilitate compostable packaging. processing plants for recyclables invest in the solution. Ms Renshaw acts as an independent and for compostable packaging Nga Mihi and the logistics networks in place facilitator for the Packaging Forum’s Working group. radio rhema perspectives | hon. simon bridges LET’S PUT LITTER leader of the opposition IN ITS PLACE bit.ly/Rhema-LPLIIP In an effort to make recycling and waste management more effective, Wellington has installed new bins as part of the Let’s Put Litter in its Place campaign. Andrew Urquhart talks with Public Place Recycling Scheme Manager Lyn Mayes about this initiative. newstalkzb KERBSIDE RECYCLING BINS GIVEN THE GREEN LIGHT FOR TAURANGA HEN THE Volvo Ocean Plastic campaign throughout the Race sailed into Auckland eight months of the race. bit.ly/Newstalk-Tauranga-kerbside earlier this year, one of W The one thing we can be sure of Tauranga City Council turned to the the yachts was Turn the Tide on is that change is inevitable, and Glass Packaging Forum for help, and Plastic. we need to evolve our thinking it has now stumped up $165,000. The team’s mission is to amplify around the impact we have on the The money will cover around the United Nations Environment’s environment. quarter of the cost of providing Clean Seas: Turn the Tide on continues on next page kerbside, glass-only recycling bins. hot off the press! Adele Rose says kerbside recycling is the overwhelming preference of people living in Tauranga, with older people especially struggling I congratulate the Packaging Forum Since 2008 our greenhouse gas and its members for its leadership emissions have fallen, despite a with heavy boxes of empties. She in packaging product stewardship growing economy and a growing says the council is purchasing which is recognised by the three population. 52,000 bins and residents will voluntary product stewardship schemes which it operates. That’s a big deal, but now we need receive instructions on how to use to shrink emissions even further. As Leader of the National Party, them before kerbside recycling I want us to focus more on I want us to take the politics out resumes in October. environmental issues. of climate change and work with other parties to make meaningful I’ve charged our environment MPs, NINE TO NOON led by Scott Simpson, Todd Muller, progress on climate change. MINISTER INCLINED Sarah Dowie and Erica Stanford That’s why I wrote to the Prime TOWARDS BAN ON with the task of modernising our Minister and Minister for Climate approach to environmental issues. Change, offering to work with PLASTIC BAGS New Zealand is a successful, them to establish a non-political bit.ly/RNZ-ban-on-bags prosperous, confident country, Climate Change Commission. filled with people and businesses Associate Minister for the Getting cross-party agreement that can foot it with the best in the Environment Eugenie Sage says she’s world. will be challenging and require compromises on both sides. inclined towards a ban on plastic But in a hundred years, when we’re But the prize is too great not all long gone, National wants our bags, but work is still underway. to try, and the consequences grandchildren to be living in a New Plastic bags and their eco-friendly on our economy, jobs and the Zealand that is still the envy of alternatives have been in the the world, because of its stunning environment are too serious if we natural environment as well as its don’t do so responsibly. spotlight following Countdown’s prosperity. Of course, simply establishing a first 10 supermarkets going plastic Climate change is one of Climate Change Commission isn’t free, and The Warehouse choosing the world’s most serious sufficient — there will be ongoing to switch to compostable bags. environmental challenges, and I debate and differing views about But there are criticisms about the am committed to ensuring New the specific policy choices that Zealand plays its part. will be taken to reduce emissions. lack of standards around what compostable materials should be We want to find sensible and National believe a sustainable, practical solutions to climate pristine environment and a strong made of. Ms Sage said she would change that are science-based economy that creates jobs and make announcements on plastic and won’t harm our economy lifts incomes can and must go or drive up the cost of living for bags by the end of the year.
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