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Tools for collecting waste data: Waste Data Pilot

The Ministry for the Environment is working with Local Authorities and the waste management industry in the Waikato and Bay of Plenty to develop some practical tools and systems for collecting and using waste data.

In developing tools and systems for collecting and using waste data, the Waste Data Pilot Group will:

  • document what information is held by each organisation
  • develop standardised monitoring and reporting methodologies – draft circulated, to be refined throughout the pilot process
  • consider options for addressing data management and commercial sensitivity issues.

To date (April 2003) the Waste Data Pilot group have compiled an inventory of waste data in the Waikato and Bay of Plenty Regions, agreed on a working draft for standardised monitoring methodologies, and started to share waste data for the purposes of testing the methodologies.

Last updated: 17 September 2007