|
Resolution
number HM/2024/84
MOVED by Member B
Loader, seconded by Chairperson C Carter:
That
the Henderson-Massey Local Board:
a)
whakarite / provide the following
feedback on the draft Waste Management and Minimisation Plan 2024 and its 12
key priority areas:
Overall direction of the plan
i)
endorse the vision for Auckland to be
zero waste by 2040.
ii)
note that the majority of submissions
from the Henderson-Massey local board area supported the regional plan and
its priorities.
Key priorities
1.
Empowering iwi and community
partnerships
iii)
support strengthening our partnership
approach with mana whenua and delivering on Māori outcomes through waste
initiatives.
iv)
support te ao Māori values
underpinning the vision, priorities and actions of the waste plan.
v)
support expansion and strengthening
of the Resource Recovery Network and its services, in particular additional
community recycling centres.
vi)
note the critical, multi-faceted
roles that many community recycling centres played during the disaster
response and supporting the continuing development and establishment of the
Resource Recovery Network.
vii)
note the need to ensure recycling
services are provided in urban and rural areas.
2. Targeting
specific activities and materials
viii)
support efforts to target the
reduction of Construction and Demolition (C&D) waste, acknowledging that
this is a larger waste stream than residential waste, through methods such as
deconstruction rather than demolition.
ix)
support the five priority waste
streams (organics, including food scraps, green waste, timber and
cardboard/paper), plastics, packaging, textiles and biosolids and provide
more options to reduce/reuse/recycle.
x)
note with concern the limited options
for recycling and reuse of textiles in Aotearoa / New Zealand.
xi)
support efforts to change attitudes
towards fast fashion.
xii)
support efforts to regulate for
better design and durability of products.
xiii)
support strengthening our focus on
disaster preparedness and climate change mitigation, adaptation and
resilience, but note that 2023’s weather events demonstrate we are in a
climate emergency and steps to reduce and absorb carbon should be prioritised.
xiv)
do not support the reduction in the
number of bins in our public spaces.
xv)
support the introduction of more
public bins for specific purposes, such as dog waste.
xvi)
support more enforcement of illegal
dumping and littering and support the focus on better regulatory tools to
address this issue.
3. Advocacy
for future action
xvii)
support advocacy to all sectors for
actions, policy and regulation that will move Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland
up the waste hierarchy where reduce, rethink, redesign and reuse, repair and repurpose
principles are the preferred approach to waste reduction.
xviii)
support advocacy for implementation
of a container return scheme.
xix)
support the extension of the
mandatory product stewardship schemes to further products.
4. Delivering
direct action
xx)
support Aucklanders to use their
kerbside recycling and food scraps bins effectively, and to shift to
rates-funded collection services.
xxi)
do not support transition to a
fortnightly kerbside rubbish collection once the kerbside food scraps
collection is well established, noting that a majority of submitters in the
Henderson-Massey Local Board Area did not support the transition to
fortnightly rubbish collection
xxii)
support multiple bin sizes including
very small bins that empower low waste producers.
xxiii)
support accelerated efforts to
minimise operational wastes from the Auckland Council Group.
xxiv)
support efforts to address litter and
illegal dumping to protect public health and the environment.
5. Across
all priorities
xxiv) support efforts to
utilise partnerships to achieve a Zero Waste Auckland built on a circular
economy.
CARRIED
|
