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Waste Waste Streams
Guidelines and recommendations for reuse and recycling operators
These pages provide guidance for reuse and recycling operators on the minimum expected standards of operation for New Zealand including information on:
- environmental, health and safety, and quality management systems
- insurance
- business plan
- legislative compliance
- staff training
- disposal chain responsibilities
- design of physical facilities
- health and safety risk assessments
- verification of processes and data collection
- information exchange programme.
All companies operating businesses that reuse, refurbish, and/or recycle WEEE should be committed to:
- minimising the health and safety risks associated with their operations
- minimising the release of hazardous substances to the environment by adopting good practice
- maximising the diversion of WEEE from landfill
- recording data so WEEE can be monitored through the reuse and recycling chain
- only working with competent companies operating at the next stage of the reuse and recycling chain
- providing a quality-assured service that meets customers’ needs.
To achieve these aims, reuse and recycling operators should:
- prioritise reuse
- have the financial, managerial and technical ability to perform their operations to the recommended good practice standards
- have systems to check that downstream recyclers also meet the recommended good practice recommendations.
Last updated:15 March 2011
