NZ has new recycling rules - what you need to know | TVNZ Breakfast
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- From tomorrow New Zealanders will have new standardised recycling guidelines to follow - however, there is still some confusion for Kiwis who may not know which items belong in kerbside recycling bins.
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If it can not be recycled should not be made in first place
Agreed. If that product is made in NZ, we should make a law to change them to use packaging we can recycle.
If it's imported. Ban it outright unless it meets the same rule.
If it's a lack of market to take the recycled product afterwards, start one. Generate jobs.
Ideally, yes. They should add taxes to penalize companies using a ton of packaging that has to go straight to the landfill.
why though?
except the plastic box you are typing into, drugs, etc etc
I think only "1" plastic can be recycled in NZ. The rest is sent overseas and maybe recycled.
Bring in the green spot system, if you make it a no brainer you will get the results
Germany leading the way. Their roads are beautiful too
@@marilynschmidt6400it's very limited in Germany only 10% of recyclable products have the green dot, the rest have the same hard to read recycle stamps as NZ..
And German roads aren't very good, have you ever been to east Germany ?
Just because they have unlimited speed limits on 70% of their motorways (which 20% is currently under construction with reduced speed) doesn't mean that they have great roads..
In European countries they introduced in 2023 that all bottle caps for fizzy drinks are fixed to the bottle itself by a small tab.
So the bottle caps can be easily recycled with the bottle.
How does NZ come along and say, bottle caps can't be recycled.
Seems like bull to me.
So much for our clean green New Zealand image.
Here's a solution, give Nz companies incentive to change their packaging, or bring back bulk transported products and self serve where shoppers bring their own containment for more loose food. There are solutions and it seems convenience is biting back.
@@dswee3005 Germany have beautiful roads/highways compared to the East Coast of the North Island that's for sure. Also NZ should introduce vending machines like other countries where you put recyclables into and get paid for doing so.
Rinsing everything clean... Wasting water that i pay on a metre.
I think reducing unnecessary water consumption is more critical these days.
So are they going to give a bigger red bin to put the un recyclables in 🙄
Where I live in Hamilton, this is allowing significantly more to go into the recycling, not less. I suspect the same is true in most of the country, people just vastly overestimate the range of items that can be recycled, in my experience.
@@normalmighty if we have to put lids & uht containers in the red bins then it's going to make less for the recycle bins & more for the auctual rubbish bins..why are they hammering us when manufacturers should be held accountable for what they are using to package food products..and I still haven't used that usless little food scraps bin either might throw that in the recycle bin see if it comes back
@unknown-cp8zp #1 plastic wasn't even accepted anywhere that I've lived before, and bottle caps have almost universally been denied for a long time now.
These rules are more relaxed, people are just ignorant to how many not-accepted items they're currently putting into recycling.
They probably won’t , but they’ll put your rates up because they’re thieves
you can order lager bins through council. for extra 150ish added to rates
In layman’s terms, everything goes into the rubbish bin
This is confusing I think I will just burn my plastics lids and all in the back yard burner drum.
My household made that decision ages ago when it seemed every other week the recycling collection truck always whinged about something. So now we have a massive hole in the ground, and anything that "wants to burn" burns.
I know what belongs in the rubbish bin... tvnz
The new government belongs there too haha
I try to include my recyclables when washing the dishes. Throwing out the lids is the one I have to remember.
And then some feral dog walker walks past your bin and they throw in their dog poop bag in it!
You know you're white and first world with no actual problems when this is a major concern to you.
Better than on the footpath I guess 😄
But you have a good point, it's disgusting and should be heavily fined
Bahahaha
So now we can put less in our recycling bin, we will need bigger rubbish bins. Honestly they making it so complicated might as well just throw it all in the rubbish and stop recycling all together
Why can't the government improve the recycling services to cover everything?
Or if they want to use the excuse it's too hard, or the recycled product can't go to a "market", then ban the packaging?
Because there are not enough private sector joining in, Rubbish is big business. the whole ecosystem of recycling need privates sectors to join and govt support. In Japan, ppl follow and understand the importance of recycling, in Singapore, there are more players joining this recycled business. You can see deposit box for light bulbs, batteries, electronic like hp, pc, printeres.. and a machine to take in paper and carboard and a mineral water deposit machine. Ppl who partake can get tokens and used it in supermarket.
The government needs to take control of this. Private recycling is picking and choosing the easiest and most economical items to maximise profits. Tons of recyclable materials are being thrown in the rubbish for future generations to deal with. Shame.
@@Carlos-uo3fk I agree that the govt must take the lead and also provide the infrastructure and faciliate on both govt and private sector. Sembcorp in Singapore provides consultation services for waste management so does the Japanese. We need to learn from others as well and modified to suit our own country.
Everything goes in the rubbish then
Love this interviewer. His mum raised him well, polite, nicely spoken, humorous, modest.❤️
My partner used to work for the council the stuff that people would put in recycling was crazy. Nappies, dead animals, electronics, paint etc all in the recycle bin. They wouldn't pick them up just take a photo of the bin to show the contents for the admin team and move on. Some people just don't get that recycling isn't an extra rubbish bin but the majority get it after a chat. It just comes down to people caring enough about our environment to spend an extra 2 mins just doing it right its not hard.
Big black dildoes
Yes extra effort is needed for a difference
you want it recyced then you do it.
Those people may not understand English and or Maori? Go with the dot. Surely everybody understands a coloured dot 🔴🔵⚪⚫ Sadly I have no green emoji dot 🤭
What a load of shite thats not recycling no plastic milk or drink tops
I used to recycle everything i could but stopped because i couldn't read the symbols and had no idea what i could and couldn't so everything goes in my wheelie bin each week.
Kudos for being honest. The sad part is even after doing everything right recycling is only fractionally as effective as it is purported to be. Even something like glass which is one of the very few things that is actually "recyclable" is apparently being done for next to nothing(was 8$ a ton when I checked a few years ago) which is how the glass was ending up in roads.
you can get an info sheet from your local council to put on your fridge, that's how I learnt the recycling rules when I moved cities. agreed symbols need to be larger though. (Edit: just got to the info sheet idea in the video too)
Honestly - we're still trying to recycle Chippy and Cindy
What if your lid is marked recyclable 2? I always check the lids for their number and many are 2 so they have been put in the recycle bin.
Maybe just loose and not attached to the container??
omg thy will b going in the supermarkt bin.....
I've been wondering the same for a while
According to the website, all lids should go into the rubbish bin. I'm baffled as some lids are made from the same plastic but nope, it says all lids should go into the rubbish.
@@dragonrings14 it's because the machinery isn't able to pick up and process the smaller plastic lids even if they are have from the same plastic, it tells you this in the CCC rubbish app
Why don't we have 1, 2 & 5 marked with orange or a visible color under the plastic bottles or meat trays? That will help everyone make decisions quickly.
Where was the marketing around this? I’ve literally heard nothing and only came across this PSA by accident during the ‘scroll hole’ on TH-cam!
ditto
Yeah where's the several million dollar spend on Facebook, TV, and glossy non recyclable brochures?
My local recycle centre hadn't mentioned ANYTHING about this, though!??
The worst thing a city council and/or government can do is put another regulation on the public. Instead of virtue signaling the public, regulate the manufacturer the same as what was done with the bread tags
So am I getting a discount on my rates for doing their job?
Where do the lids go then? How do I know which number plastic is the lid made of?
Lids now go in the rubbish regardless of its plastic number
Into the rubbish. They're normally made of a different type of plastic that isn't recyclable.
Thank you both for clarifying.
The milk bottle lid is made of the same plastic the bottle is. Why it's not recycled is beyond me. There is a young fella that uses the lids to melt down & make skateboards out of. Any plastic left over gets remelted for the next batch. It was a news item in stuff last year, he's the one that said the lids are the same plastic as the bottle. The lids provide the mixing of colours he creates
@@scorpnz4433 yeah, agree 100%. Why not standardize it so bottles and lids are made from the same grade plastic instead of this new rule that will mean tons of plastic going into landfills.
So far no mention of steel tins and Aluminium cans, or glass
Yes, I was wondering the same thing, going through all the comments to see if anyone wrote anything about tins🧐🤔
why minus the lids?????
2:01 why? if we were able to recycle it before are we no longer able to ? did the plant that used to recycle it break or something ?
Got sent to China but they don't want it anymore.
Get lost, make the suppliers ware this cost or use better packaging. We now just dump everything, not my problem. Most of it goes to dump anyway as it is "contaminated".
Everyone has tried for years and have been let down badly by councils and manufactures.
You realize that if you make the suppliers wear the cost, the consumer pays in the end right?
I am on tank water, I'm not wasting it to clean out containers, then getting a magnifying glass to read the recycle symbols, and then still throwing some of it in the trash bin.
Now it ALL goes in the trash.
Im amazed people are allowed to comment TVNZ are good at turning comments off
Why not place milk bottle tops in a empty milk bottle until full then also recycle ♻️
Very good suggestion. People need to think a bit harder
The lid has a different type of plastic that can't be recycled, and even if it could be how would you fit the lid into the bottle?
They want the containers empty.
@@michaeloxlarge4345 try it for yourself it’s quite easy
@@tinamitchell7496 do you know the recycling process method?
I used to sort in recycling facility in Australia, if they didn’t have a buyer for the certain number on the plastic, we let it go to the skip. 1s are clear plastic bottles, 2s are milk bottles/laundry containers, 5s are 2litre ice cream containers. I think the bottle lids are all different numbers
Aren’t coffee cups and fast food drink cups made from paper? I’ll have to print a chart because I’ll forget about the lids! 😬
They are but also they are coated with a wax so they don't leak paper not very good at holding liquid
I find that the the recycling ♻️ symbols on some products are that small that you can't even see the numbers with a magnifying glass the recycling symbols and numbers should be larger by law.
The council should have an option for a medium-sized recycling bin since every forthrightly bins are taken, and less product is recycled . ..
We pay for the service 😊 u sort the bloody thing
Then watch the price go up...
Staff are paid by the hour...
But what do you actually DO with the recycling stuff? Does any actual recycling happen?
Not really. 28% of waste gets recycled, while the rest gets burnt or buried here in New Zealand or in (Southeast) Asia. Only 6% of plastic is recycled. Metal is pretty much the only thing that has a high chance of being recycled, especially if it is iron-based because it can be extracted using magnets.
@@Delosian i believe you, but of course you have flatly contradicted the woman from the council, who stated without any ifs, buts, or maybes that if it's allowed in the bin, it IS recycled. I found that a bit hard to swallow.
She literally assured u of this
@@richardokeefe7410 Yeah, she is either ignorant or lying.
@@richardokeefe7410 Considering most Auckland recycling ends up in the landfill she is very much talking out her arse.
Council's obviously have nothing better to do than to come up with these crazy idea's, my recycling habits won't change, stuff them
I'm sure your vast knowledge on the subject affords you a valid opinion
@@Nathan-oe8utThanks
I just moved to New Zealand ... permanently and let me tell you she is pristine and oh so beautiful in comparison to the USA! LET US ALL KEEP AOTEAROA NZ BEAUTIFUL BY DOING THE RIGHT THING! 1,2,5! .. OH this should be the new nz recycling motto! Also I'm ZERO-WASTE, MINIMALIST AND follow a PLANT ONLY CLIMATARIAN DIET for the planet and our future.
I agree with everything you have said, except the plant based diet. Each to their own.
"climatarian" 😂😂😂 so u one of those bug munchers huh?
@@SKNZ2727they're right about the diet, unfortunately. It just IS better for the climate, and going veggie can cut your carbon footprint 70%. I decided to split the difference. Instead of stopping eating meat altogether, I've just cut it down pretty significantly. More curries with small amounts of meat, a veggie dish once or twice a week, only doing the occasional splurge with a meal with lots of meat. Its easy enough to be mindful without going crazy on it, IMO. I think more people would be open to that. It's also a good way to reduce your risk of cancer and heart disease.
thank you all for your kind words. i appreciate it.
Sorry, didnt understand a word she said
“It can’t go to a market”. Make one lol. We aren’t a third world country
The markets are the third world countries. Recycling is completely unviable economically unless the manual labourers are being paid very little.
The recycling companies and councils are behaving like choosing beggars. Let them sort it out or else it will all end up in the landfill.
It's taken along time to get some people to recycle , let's not ruin this with too many details!
Looks like all my rubbish is going in the rubbish bag..;since recycling has come to our city our street are littered
Unlike the good old days when glass was the norm and it got washed and use again,, I think that's called recycling too.
From one day to the next everyone’s (except packaging industry)being asked (?) to participate or follow rules for the benefit of our children's future, fantastic. But why is the program leaving rules out for the most important player out of the conversion, the food packaging industry? The program does service for the government and industry, but what about the people? Shouldn’t the emphasis be with the food packaging industry and government? The public is not part of the decision making process as to the materials the packaging industry chooses to use, right? If the government is serious about recycling it needs to be equally demanding of industry and not allow products lacking critical information on their items to be sold. Consumers must not be manipulated by industry and government and be treated with respect, that’s all of us actually. Government has been looking into dishonest packaging labeling, which are a serious health hazard with no results or solutions so far, nothing's happening why? It seems news readers may be restricted scripted very limited when bringing up issues we only get one side, again why? When consumers are clearly not part of a decision making process that effects them the program producer in fairness should encourage bring people together making us aware of the people that are making these decisions.Then all involved can sit at the same table and have a meaningful conversation. Does that make sense, of course. So far consumers of health education food town planning etc have not been invited to sit at the government and industry table. Consumers ie all of us, need to seriously start to get organized have a voice as the other parties or the resistance have already been for a very long time.
Well said. We used to try and recycle everything properly. Now we put everything in waste bin as most of it is going there anyway. Push this problem back on the manufactures who expect us to pay for their waste.
Time we had a big change of who pays.....
You are doing it to load more in the regular, smaller rubbish bins so the frequency of buying those tags increases. More tags bought to accomodate the spillover from the previously allowed items, more income for the council. Those tags have become so expensive as of late, and there is no doubt that the cost of these tags will go higher the moment the volume of the now non-recyclables reaches elevated levels. Good luck!
I'm a kiwi living in china and u can leave bottle tops on and leave it dirty and they will PAY u cash for your recycling so what is going on with nz recycling??
we sell our recycling to china, that's the "market" she was referring to. They're one of the only countries to allowed workers to be paid little enough that recycling can be economically viable.
On another note, the reason why people are finding it hard to get a GP appointment, and the clinics are sounding the alarm?. It is because of all the injections everyone has taken.
Excess death data is also incredibly unsettling
Amen dude
no one is finding it hard to get a gp appt you weirdo
What about photo graphic paper or shiny paper.
Where do the metal lids of cans of cat food go? 🤷♂
Thanks for the well explanation
How many Councils actually have recycling contract in place and functioning? Fewer than you would think!
At least putting nappies in a bin is better than leaving them in the carpark...
if its that easy and fast to clean all before the recycling bin , you can come do it for all of us yes!
We recycle everything we can and used to only put out a rubbish bin once every 4 - 5 weeks or so. Don't have food scraps to put out (wasteful) and whatever can goes into compost that feeds our veggie garden. Suitable bottles are cleaned and go to beekeepers. Don't drink alcohol, soda drinks, etc so no wine or beer / coke cans, etc. Cardboard. paper, coffee grounds goes into compost, timber repurposed, batteries/ light bulbs to Mitre 10/ Bunnings (so easy to have a waste electronics basket).I recycle old computers (my line of work is software and IT) and repurpose by installing Chrome OS and give them away to whoever if I have available. Old mobile phones the same. Easy to convert to security/ dashcam cameras. The rest goes to e-waste recycling on the day. So I think I do my bit..... Living in Waitakere the rubbish tag system was great as we had the opportunity to manage our rubbish disposal and save quite a bit of money annually. Then Auckland Council in all its wisdom added a fixed cost (sneaky tax?) to our rates bill BUT we still need to attach a tag in Waitakere so effectively we are now paying twice for rubbish removal.....feedback an utter waste of time. I believe the new rubbish initiative to be just that. Counter productive, high administrative costs, ideological in execution (Government driven) and a huge disincentive to ratepayers that have been responsible and disciplined in managing their household waste. Just because you wag a finger and tell people to do something does not mean they are going to change old habits. 40% of kiwi adults are unable to read at a functioning level - now extrapolate that to responsible waste management through council literature and "re-education". As the saying goes "Yea Right mate - I am going to do my bottles in 1, 2 and 5's. Nah, lets just chuck in 3,4,6 and 7." Food scraps bin ----- mine sits in the corner of my shed, gathering dust and housing spiders. Any sudden windy day sees these bins strewn across residential roads and drivers playing zig-zag- don't hit the bin. Go figure..... A far better approach would have been a tag system (you pay for what you put out for disposal) and a rates incentive for ratepayers to manage their waste and recycle responsibly and sensibly. Now ? My bin goes out each week. Not so, but, definitely more frequently just to make a point. You get what you ask people to pay for..... more, not less rubbish.
Part 1 cool! Looking forward to Part 2 who are the local Kiwi companies recycling some of this. Eg the coat hangers to metal recyclers. Uht cartons to that company in Hamilton, etc. 🎉. Laurie
If they say that with the old rules people were putting weird stuff in the bin, it's hard to think people will stick to the new tougher rules. What happens when this isn't followed? do you get a warning, fine ? Or do they just not empty your bin?
Waste of time its up to the manufactures to package food in things that are biodegrade and for shops not to buy things that cant be recycled in the first place.
Or you can just recycle and follow the rules and stop being lazy
hmm, we have the choice in what we do with it. We can hold them accountable.
@@StarWarsForge2010 We do, meanwhile plastic pollution carries on. (I believe in Germany every manufacturer has to take back and deal with all they produce when it is finished with, product, packaging and everything not biodegradable.)
@@hvlyvoice9127 Exactly, we need to vote for the same here.
To keep NZ clean, instead of putting numbers on these recycled materials, add 10 cents on each packaging. And have a drop off zone so recycled items are dropped off, counted and get paid. This way the whole community will get involved. Parents and children will definitely support their children to earn a bit of money and in return we keep our Country CLEAN.
All grocery supermarkets, takeaways, gas stations should get involved in supporting this initiative. Australia is up there.
It's time to see how things are done in Japan. They have it down to a very disciplined science and most everyone follows the rules.
What about steel? I’m guessing tins are ok, but what about things like used nails and roofing iron offcuts? Do they go in the skip or can they be recycled? Is there an electromagnet at the facility to isolate steel?
No. Recycling is only for household items. Scrap metal can be processed via other means. Some you can sell for a small sum. Either way don't put it in the bin.
Here in the UK we have a bin for plastics a bin for glass a bin for cardboard and a bin for food plus the bin for everyday rubbish
Ok team here's the new rules. First half is normal household rubbish, top half is recycling, pushed down hard. South Auckland for life.
Haha it's rubbish then bottles then more rubbish I do it layers and if the rubbish guys complain I put heavy weights at the bottom of the bag na lift that sht mofos
The neat ones are going adjust and do the right thing. The rest (% your guess) are just going to carry on, (probably contaminating the recycling of others.) Again just a wish list. If there is no consequences many/most people won't do it these days, I'm sorry to tell you. (Runners who go ahead of the truck and check and sticker bins with unsuitable waste are too few, if you want to be serious about it.)
And now you're only getting a full red bin. I'm gonna ditch the yellow for a larger red.
This is crazy. We need to waste water to clean everything. Come on preserving water is a must. When we make things this complicated people just give up. Way to much bs
Get a roof water run off tank. And use that water to clean them outside, before throwing them in the recycling bin?
@@LeeHalford pull your head out of your shady area. They want us to waste clean water. Roof water, water tanks etc to throw something away get a life
Maybe our government needs to take control of this industry instead of greedy kiwi private owners which pick and choose what the easiest and most profitable items are to recycle. We are disposing of tons of recyclable plastics into landfill for our future generations to deal with. I also find it strange that everything needs to be cleaned when the process of recycling involves machines that clean the items thoroughly first.
Define "lid"
None of it gets recycled anyway... what a circus.
1:50 and why is that? are they made from thermoset plastic that cant be melted?
Cardboard should be composted...
Why no lids!?? They have plastic numbers?
Why recycle when the council dumps the lot in the hills,i know this because my man was the dumper the councils are not green and charge us for the green bill
Still remember you could recycle the long neck coke, fanta drink bottlefor 20c. in the 70/80s. Everything was glass back then, but not so today
The recycle number system is not user friendly. Older people can’t see little numbers on the bottoms of contains. I’m dumb and if you had a big green recycle logo on a container/packet then it’s going to work a lot better ! Why do they have a red bin for recycling by the way! Green yes for plant material, but yellow for recycling? Red for rubbish? People associate green with being “green” lol 😂 shit now I’m
Totally confused
What say the lid has a 1, 2, or 5 recycling mark?
The reality is our recycling efforts are not making the most cost effective results from what is a resource that has more value than given credit for.
What about lids on tin cans?
Coffee cup lids are plastic #2. Why not compost them!?
Crazy stuff time to get out the magnifying glasses for these numbers.
What the hell do we do with the lids?
but some lids have the correct numbers!!!!
Where does the recycling go
so basically we end up recycling stuff all of the plastics that are used
Only 10 k people watched this there's 5 mill in nz
I love the transition from proudly recycling to omg I just exposed my lifestyle 😂
That's the tahi 😂
im not doing it
It's easy to follow the rules and regulations and people are complaining about having to recycle and follow regulations
if it is so easy why are they having to change the rules? bare in mind i have to work a 14hr day 16hrs away from home like most of the blue collar population.
They'll need to swap the bins around so the recycle is the little and rubbish is the big.
You're suppose to raise them...where do the hangers go?yes green dot it...it would have had to be better to have done this long time ago when people realised plastics didn't break down...
So many things that we don’t recycle 😢
Ridiculous. Looks a bit controlling
Just put it all in general rubbish !
The one onto it comment just spoke what most new Zealanders do anyway lol
How she can lie so blatantly is beyond me.
New Zealand's poor track record for recycling is about to get even worse. A Fair Go investigation can reveal that the vast majority of mixed recycling collected from public bins ends up in landfill. March 2023.
3:06 soo why cant we recycle the other numbers ?
Don't want the bins do my own
Captain James Kirk here of the Star Ship Enterpize on behalf of the federation You are hereby oderdered to stop recycling lids
Recycling does not equal zero waste!! Eventually everything ends up in landfill, recycling only delays the inevitable end.
Bit late isn't it. It wont stop . These items were not recycled,to begin with.
So why leaving this too last minute.
I am one of those, who remove labels and also washed out containers.
Never let males loose in the allocations into bins.
This changes nothing il just be putting rubbish recycling all in the rubbish bag and I know for a fact alot of people will do the same
Recycling is largely a con and an utter waste of time, resources and money. The vast majority of "recycled" material is put in landfills.
So were recycling less things.
Good luck
If the government and private businesses CARED themselves 'about the environment', they would outlaw plastic packaging and packaging that can't be recycled... but wait, I forgot, it's all about money!
Standardized recycling = huge cuts and lay offs to recycling.