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The New Zealand Waste Strategy: Towards zero waste and a sustainable New Zealand. ME422. Wellington: Ministry for the Environment. March 2002. ISBN 0-478-24051-1. New Zealand Waste Strategy - Reducing harm, improving efficiency (PDF). ME 1027. Ministry for the Environment. October 2010. ISBN 978-0-478-33298-8. New Zealand Packaging Accord 2004 ...
The Waste Minimisation Act is an Act of Parliament passed in New Zealand in 2008.. It was a Private Members Bill introduced by Nándor Tánczos.The major provisions of the Act are: a levy on landfill waste, promoting product stewardship schemes, some mandatory waste reporting, clarifying the role of territorial authorities with respect to waste minimisation, and sets up a Waste Advisory Board.
Act 2005 - 7 amending Act No. 185/2001 – Coll. on waste and on amendment to some other laws Decree 2004 – 382 – on the protection of farm animals at the time of slaughter, killing or other ways of putting to death
The first enactment of the New Zealand parliament (General Assembly), created by the New Zealand Constitution Act 1852, was the English Laws Act 1854, which established the applicability of all English laws in effect 14 January 1840, to New Zealand. The New Zealand Constitution Act 1846 was never implemented and was suspended.
The roots of New Zealand environmental law can be traced to the common law of Australia. [citation needed] The increasing environmental awareness of the 1960s led to a specific body of environmental law that developed in many Western countries including New Zealand.
New Zealand aims to reduce all greenhouse gases (except methane emissions from waste and agricultural biological processes) to zero by 2050. [18] The Ministry of the Environment has an emissions reduction plan (ERP) that outlines how New Zealand will reduce these emissions. [18] These plans are created every 5 years.
Electronic waste in New Zealand is an environmental issue being addressed by community and government initiatives. E-waste is the fastest-growing toxic waste stream in New Zealand. Every year, as of 2017, New Zealand generates approximately 99,000 tonnes (20.1 kg per capita) of electronic waste, of which 97,000 tonnes is disposed of in landfills.
Pages in category "Environmental law in New Zealand" ... New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987 ... Waste Minimisation Act 2008