Waste management report 2008

Waste management is an issue for the whole community at an individual level, for groups, communities and the district as a whole.

Download - Waste management in the Gisborne district 2008  
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This report includes: 

Reuse and Recycling

• Second-Hand Sundays
• Recycling depot
• Car body crushing and collection
• Recycling at events
• Recycling in the CBD
• eDay computer recycling 

Recovery

• Organic waste
• Chipping and shredding trials
• Bokashi scrap-ing system
• Compost workshops
• Master composters
• Organic voucher system
• Worm farms

 Collection

• Kerbside collection
• Resource recovery transfer station
• Rural transfer stations

Disposal

• Total waste stream
• Initiatives for further reduction
• Cleanfill sites
• Restricted waste disposal sites

Hazardous Waste

• Substances
• Agriculture chemical collection
• Agriculture chemical containers
• Bale wrap
• Future Agrecovery initiatives
• Pollution response and incidents
• Marine oil spill response

Semi liquid special wastes

• Septage sites
• Liquid waste
• Septic tank sludge
• Campervans
• Stock trucks

Promotion, publicity, education and facilitation

• Rethink centre
• School environmental performance
• Enviro schools
• Sustainable living
• Recycling in schools