11 November 2009
The Waitaki District Council has funded a resource exchange programme to help businesses look at their rubbish and offer it for others to use. The council has put around $75,000 towards the programme.
Business waste makes up about half of what goes into the Oamaru and Palmerston landfills. The programme will initially target the biggest business producers of waste and evaluate what they dump and whether it can be offered for exchange to other businesses and the public. For example, businesses buying new packaging materials and containers could source these from others and reuse them. Materials would be listed in a newsletter and on a website, with businesses or the public contacting those who had materials they wanted to reuse. The programme would include a "Resource Wise" newsletter, individual help for businesses to reduce, reuse and recycle waste, a website, follow-up phone calls, revisiting businesses to assess the situation and a survey form to monitor the exchange's success.
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