Annex I: National Targets for Priority Wastes

This annex lists all the targets given in the New Zealand Waste Strategy.

1. Waste minimisation

1.1 Local authorities will report their progress on waste minimisation and management for their annual report in 2000/02 and quantitatively on an annual basis from then onwards.

1.2 By December 2005, all regional councils will ensure that new or renewed industrial resource consents include a recognised waste minimisation and management programme and will report on the percentage of all consents under their jurisdiction that have such a clause.

1.3 By December 2005, at least 10 major businesses will be participating alongside central and local government in developing and promoting waste minimisation programmes within their sector.

1.4 Ninety-five percent of the population will have access to community recycling facilities by December 2005.

1.5 By December 2005, territorial local authorities will ensure that building regulations incorporate reference to space allocation for appropriate recycling facilities in multi-unit residential and commercial buildings.

1.6 By December 2005, all councils will ensure that procedures for waste minimisation have been addressed for all facilities and assets they manage and will have set target reductions based on public health, environmental and economic factors.

1.7 By December 2010, all regional councils will ensure that at least 25 percent of all existing industrial resource consent holders have in place a recognised waste minimisation and management programme.

2 Organic wastes

2.1 By December 2003, all territorial local authorities will have instituted a measurement programme to identify existing organic waste quantities, and set local targets for diversion from disposal.

2.2 By December 2005, 60 percent of garden wastes will be diverted from landfill and beneficially used, and by December 2010, the diversion of garden wastes from landfill to beneficial use will have exceeded 95 percent.

2.3 By December 2007, a clear quantitative understanding of other organic waste streams (such as kitchen wastes) will have been achieved through the measurement programme established by December 2003.

2.4 By December 2007, more than 95 percent of sewage sludge currently disposed of to landfill will be composted, beneficially used or appropriately treated to minimise the production of methane and leachate.

2.5 By December 2010, the diversion of commercial organic wastes from landfill to beneficial use will have exceeded 95 percent.

3 Special wastes

3.1 By December 2005, businesses in at least eight different sectors will have introduced extended producer responsibility pilot programmes for the collection and reuse, recycling or appropriate treatment and disposal of at least eight categories of special wastes.

4 Construction and demolition wastes

4.1 By December 2005, all territorial local authorities will have instituted a measurement programme to identify existing construction and demolition waste quantities and set local targets for diversion from landfills.

4.2 By December 2008, there will have been a reduction of construction and demolition waste to landfills of 50 percent of December 2005 levels measured by weight.

5 Hazardous wastes

5.1 By December 2005, an integrated and comprehensive national hazardous waste management policy will be in place that covers the reduction, transport, treatment and disposal of hazardous wastes to effectively manage risks to people and the environment.

5.2 By December 2004, hazardous wastes will be appropriately treated before disposal at licensed facilities, and current recovery and recycling rates will be established for a list of priority hazardous wastes.

5.3 Recovery and recycling rates for priority hazardous waste will increase 20 percent by December 2012.

6 Contaminated sites

6.1 By December 2008, all sites on the Hazardous Activities and Industry List will have been identified and 50 percent will have been subject to a rapid screening system in accordance with Ministry guidelines.

6.2 By December 2010, all sites on the Hazardous Activities and Industry List will have been subject to a rapid screening system in accordance with Ministry guidelines, and a remediation programme will have been developed for those that qualify as high risk.

6.3 By December 2015, all high risk contaminated sites will have been managed or remediated. A timeframe will also have been developed to address the management or remediation of remaining sites.

7 Organochlorines

7.1 By December 2010, New Zealand will have met international obligations under the Stockholm Convention to collect and destroy PCBs and organochlorine pesticide wastes.

7.2 By December 2020, the average body burdens of dioxins will have been reduced to 10 percent of present day levels.

8 Trade wastes

8.1 By December 2005, all territorial local authorities will have implemented and will be monitoring Model General Trade Waste By-laws based on the New Zealand Standard Model General Bylaws, Part 23 - Trade Waste or its equivalent.

8.2 By December 2005, all territorial local authorities will ensure that all holders of new or renewed trade waste permits will have in place a recognised waste minimisation and management programme.

9 Waste disposal

9.1 By December 2003, local authorities will have addressed their funding policy to ensure that full cost recovery can be achieved for all waste treatment and disposal processes.

9.2 By December 2005, operators of all landfills, cleanfills and wastewater treatment plants will have calculated user charges based on the full costs of providing and operating the facilities and established a programme to phase these charges in over a timeframe acceptable to the local community.

9.3 By December 2005, all cleanfills will comply with cleanfill disposal standards.

9.4 By December 2010, all substandard landfills will be upgraded or closed.

9.5 By December 2020, all substandard wastewater treatment facilities will be upgraded, closed or replaced with systems that comply with all relevant regional and coastal plans, standards and guidelines.

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