Sustainability
Sustainability
Our team is passionate about creating a cleaner, greener New Zealand, for future generations.
At Northland Waste, we specialise in innovative and sustainable solutions for your rubbish and recycling. We take steps to reduce, reuse, and recycle materials to create a more sustainable world for generations to come.
We are passionate about sustainability and are eager to work with you to help make your home & business more sustainable.
Investing in a Sustainable Future
We don’t just talk about taking action when it comes to large-scale investments in waste reduction infrastructure - we make it happen.
We know that by investing in sustainable ‘green’ initiatives, we can help reduce our environmental impact and create a healthier future for ourselves and generations to come. To date, we have spearheaded a number of sustainable initiatives in the northland region to benefit our community.
Sustainability for your business
Organic Waste
By recycling our green waste, we are helping to protect the environment. Every year, we divert over 25,000 tonnes of organic waste from landfills and turn it into valuable compost for local use. This reduces greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution while reducing our impact on the planet.
Construction and Demolition Waste
Reusing and recycling construction waste conserves natural resources. In the last year, we have saved over 15,000 tonnes of construction waste from landfills to be reused, recovered and repurposed as biofuels, new metals, glass, concrete and rubble.
Commodity Recycling
Recycling is an essential part of protecting our environment and reducing waste. We offer a full suite of recycling services for paper, cardboard, plastic, glass, metal and electronics. Last year we proudly recycled 30,000 Tonnes of commodity recycling, making us Northland's biggest recycler!
Sustainability Reporting
We provide sustainability reports and waste audits for our business customers. This means our business customers can better understand their environmental impacts, and we assist our customers to develop more effective strategies for reducing their carbon footprint.
Our local initiatives
The last Re:Sort Second-hand Shops
Our Re:Sort facilities in Warkworth, Kaitaia, Mangawai and Whangarei have an onsite purpose-built indoor shop for recovering items that would otherwise end up in a landfill. This initiative has seen great success with increasing visitor numbers and has provided local community groups and charities with much-needed proceeds from the sale of diverted materials. Some beneficiaries include SPCA, CanTeen, Hospice, The Salvation Army, and Northland Emergency Services Trust's Rescue Helicopter.
Education Tours
We run education tours at most of our sites across Northland. Recently, we were delighted when Snell’s Beach School approached our Warkworth team for a visit to their new Re:Sort, as they were learning about sustainability and the environment this term. The aim was to provide an immersive experience to teach students about recycling on-site, how we divert waste from landfills, and what happens when we throw it away. We were excited at the prospect of hosting just over 100 years 5 and 6's in two groups for the day.
To make the tour truly memorable, we decided to incorporate practical learning into our activities - such as a recycling race, building a mini landfill model, and deconstructing scrap metal - that would spark curiosity and engage everyone involved. Our approach was an instant hit with students and teachers alike; even bringing out the inner child in some of us!
Get in contact with us, if you would like to arrange a tour for your school or group at one of our sites.
Construction waste to biofuel
We are thrilled to introduce our new 'Re: Fuel Your Wood' initiative to the Northland District! By separating wood waste at our operational sites with sufficient floor space, we can divert it from landfill and repurpose it as an alternative fuel source. Our wood processing facility, based in Whangarei and Silverdale, has been purpose-built for this endeavour, where recovered timber from across Northland is chipped and used to replace coal in concrete production. This not only improves CO2 emissions but also reduces the amount of waste that would otherwise end up in landfills.
Kaitaia Goodlife Project
An innovative collaboration between Northland Waste and the Goodlife Project in Kaitaia, under the Far North District Council contract, has transformed organic waste into a valuable resource for our local community while providing meaningful employment opportunities to people with intellectual disabilities. The Goodlife Project offers vocational opportunities that encourage and build confidence in individuals with intellectual disabilities, inspiring them to reach their full potential and foster skills that can be carried over into the wider workforce. Northland Waste is proud to support this great initiative by supplying organic materials for creating jobs and growing healthy kai for the Kaitata community.