Resources

Community Recycling Services & Resource recovery centre founded by families in the community.

Raglan Resource Recovery Centre – Kaahu’s Nest

Here you can avoid packaging and shipping fee’s (& petrol costs to the city!), support circularity and reuse, and contribute to the local economy by buying items from us.

The wood yard and metal yard are home to plenty of resources for your whare renovations, or van fit out, upcycling projects, DIY creativity or repairing something that is loved but broken.

You can buy Superfood Compost or our popular Garden Mix by the bag in at Kāhu’s Nest.

Also fabrics, clothes, books, furniture, household items.

Useful stuff for schools, early childhood centres, community groups and craft and care groups.

Available items can be almost anything; such things as spindles; ball bearings; springs; nuts and bolts; stationery; cardboard; paper.

The West Auckland Resource Centre was set up in 1977 and redistributes resources back out to the wider community, especially to schools and early childhood centres across Auckland.

Types of materials include bubblewrap, books, calendars, cork, card, cardboard, carpet, dacron filling fabric. foam, greeting cards, haberdashery, labels, leather, magazines, mosaics, posters, plastics, containers of various sizes, paper, ribbon, vinyl, wool, wood, wrapping paper… and more.

Working towards Zero Waste

Para Kore educates and advocates from a Māori worldview for a world without waste.

They  work and collaborate with marae, community organisations, kura, kōhanga, and events providing waste minimisation education based on whakapapa to Papatūānuku.

Para Kore supports the collective wellbeing for Papatūānuku, Ranginui me ā rāua uri by advocating for Te Tiriti led futures, promoting indigenous understandings and practices which are restorative of our natural world.

They deliver a te ao Māori based, zero-waste education programme called Oranga Taiao. This programme aims to design out waste and strengthen the connection to Papatūānuku and Ranginui. They also offer online education modules.

If you have an innovative idea or project aimed at reducing the amount of waste sent to landfill, you could be eligible for funding from the Resource Wise Community Fund.

Tauranga City Council’s contestable Resource Wise Community Fund is about enabling the community to find creative ways to reduce waste, as well as inspiring and encouraging everyone to send less to landfill.

We want to see a measurable decrease in the amount of waste going into our landfill. That’s why we’ve created a new Waste Levy Fund to financially support projects that avoid, reduce, recycle, recover, or reuse waste in the Stratford district.

To successfully apply for funding, your project has to avoid, reduce, recycle, recover, or reuse waste in the Stratford district. We encourage you to be creative with your ideas.

New Plymouth District Council’s Zero Waste Fund is available to support local organisations, individuals, schools or businesses carry out new waste minimisation activities. This can happen through projects that help people rethink, redesign, reduce, reuse, repurpose, recycle or compost valuable resources.

All funds are sourced from the national levy on every tonne of waste disposed to landfill, which is overseen by the Ministry for the Environment and administered by local councils.

Assists with the minimisation or diversion of waste from landfills. A portion of the fund is available on an annual basis to provide support for local initiatives trialling or supporting new waste minimisation initiatives.

Council has an important role to encourage communities and businesses to reduce the amount of waste generated and disposed of and reduce the environmental harm waste can cause.

The Whakatāne-Ōhope Community Board has created a grant to encourage businesses in our area to reduce waste.

To be eligible, you must be a small to medium-sized business in the board’s catchment area – and you must have a great idea for minimising waste.

We have funding through the Waste Levy, to allocate towards community driven projects to minimise waste headed for landfill. Our focus is minimising food waste, as according to our 2020 waste audit, 35 tonnes of food waste goes to landfill, through kerbside services and private wheelie bins.

We know other forms of waste have an impact on the environment, so we welcome projects for how we can minimise the impact from other forms of waste as well.

Whanganui District Council can offer funding to assist communities and businesses to gain income to help address waste issues.

The fund provides financial assistance, by way of grant, seeding finance or loan, to applicants for waste minimisation initiatives that further Whanganui’s waste minimisation goal. The fund has been set up to boost Whanganui’s performance in waste minimisation by increasing resource reuse, recovery, recycling and decrease waste to landfill.

The Upper Hutt City Council Environment and Waste Minimisation Fund (formerly Zero Waste and Community Environment Fund) seeks to support practical sustainability initiatives related to environmental protection, waste minimisation, and community resilience.

The priorities for funding

• The extent the project will directly reduce waste to landfill or support initiatives for environmental protection.
• The extent the project will indirectly reduce waste to landfill or support initiatives for environmental protection through the educational impact on the wider community.
• The extent the project will build community resilience.
• The project shows how success will be measured.

The purpose of the Waste Minimisation Fund is to boost the Whangārei District’s performance in waste minimisation.

Successful projects will benefit our District and lead to measurable reductions in waste to landfill, or other waste improvements.

Projects will be assessed for their strategic value in achieving and promoting waste minimisation in an ongoing way. Refer to the assessment criteria below to prepare your application.

The Horowhenua Waste Minimisation Fund is available to aid the start-up costs of a project that minimises waste in the Horowhenua District, by reducing or reusing waste that would otherwise go to a landfill.

Project values should align with the vision, goals and objectives from our Waste Management and Minimisation Plan which is:

1. To avoid creating waste.
2. To make it easy and safe to recycle.
3. To ensure households and businesses have access to appropriate disposal of residual waste.
4. To create opportunities for the Horowhenua District – community partnerships, jobs, new products, more efficient businesses.
5. To reduce illegal dumping.
6. To improve community understanding of issues and opportunities for waste minimisation and management in the Horowhenua District.

We have waste minimisation grants available to support innovative projects that aim to reduce waste in Tasman.

As well as reducing waste, these grants are intended to support community engagement and education about one or more of the following methods for waste management and minimisation:

• Rethink how we use and value our resources to avoid the creation of waste;
• Reduce the amount of waste we create;
• Reuse resources;
• Recycle or recover materials.

The grants are also intended to support our Tasman communities to show kaitiakitanga of our natural resources.

The purpose of the Taupō District Council Waste Minimisation Fund Grant is to provide individuals, community groups and organisations with the the opportunity to fund initiatives that:

• Reduce the generation of waste
• Encourage the reuse and recovery of materials
• Divert waste from landfill through reuse, repair, recycling, and composting
• Raise awareness of issues around food waste, single-use plastics, and other wastes

We know lots of people in the community have fantastic ideas to reduce waste and this fund is a great way to help people make those ideas come to life!

The Waste Minimisation Fund supports development of innovative solutions for reducing waste, this involves providing financial assistance to local waste minimisation and management initiatives that contribute to achieving the goals outlined in Hastings District Council’s Waste Minimisation and Management Plan 2018.

The aim of the Fund is to support waste minimisation projects which encourage community participation and education and/or are of benefit to the community of Hamilton and lead to long-term waste minimisation action and behaviour change.

The Fund is open to community groups, businesses, Iwi/Maaori organisations, educational institutions and other community-based organisations operating within Hamilton or whose aims and outcomes are for the benefit of the Hamilton community.

The Waitaki Waste Minimisation Fund aims to help our community create and deliver projects so we have less rubbish going to landfill or ideally to stop waste being created in the first place.

No idea is too big or too small. If you can teach and inspire people to reduce rubbish going to landfill please apply! The Waitaki Waste Minimisation Fund is offered annually.

This fund supports the development of innovative solutions for reducing waste, so that Wellingtonians can be leaders in waste minimisation.

Funding will be allocated in order of priority according to the waste hierarchy and priority waste streams and sectors, and adherence to the principles of the Circular Economy.

The fund supports projects that rethink, reduce and reuse waste. Local individuals, organisations and community groups are encouraged to apply for funding if they have an initiative that will reduce waste.

The fund can support individuals, community groups, businesses, Iwi/Māori organisations and education providers who want to deliver a waste minimisation project for their community in the Waipā district.

The Waste Levy Fund provides funding to initiatives that reduce waste and encourage resource recovery in our district. It focuses on accelerating New Zealand’s transition towards a low emissions and low waste circular economy.

Council’s waste levy funding can be used to

• Work with community organisations/private sector to establish or expand reuse centres at or adjacent to selected transfer stations where feasible
• Investigate, and if feasible support establishment of additional processing/disposal capacity in the East Waikato for waste streams. E.g. Biosolids, Construction and demolition waste, e-waste and or garden waste
• Provide waste education services to the community including (but not limited to):  Primary and secondary schools education, home composting, waste prevention information, food waste prevention

Ngā pūtea whakaheke para ā-hapori

Do you have a great idea for a project that will help move our community towards zero waste? You might be eligible for funding through our Waste Minimisation Community Fund. Projects must  achieve the following objectives:

• Waste Reduction – Reducing waste at source and/or,
• Resource Recovery – Diverting waste from landfill

The aim is to support new initiatives that complement and enhance existing programmes, address gaps or create new opportunities.

This fund is available to projects that promote or contribute to reducing, reusing, and recycling items, with an overall goal of reducing the amount of waste ending up in landfill.

The Resource Recovery Fund is specifically for new and existing projects in Palmerston North that:

• Reduce the amount of waste created
• Reuse or upcycle end of life material
• Recycle waste material
• Align with actions in the Waste Management and Minimisation Plan.

Nelson City Council has a range of waste minimisation grants available to our community. The purpose of these grants is to build capacity and leadership to keep waste out landfill through projects which reduce or avoid waste. Examples of suitable projects might include workshops and education programmes, materials and equipment and other costs to implement projects, or feasibility studies. We will consider both new projects, and opportunities to significantly extend or further develop existing projects beyond day to day ‘business as usual’.

Assessment criteria are provided for each programme.  As a general principle, priority will be given to projects which demonstrate the following:

• Avoid or reduce the creation of waste in our region
• Close the loop on resources that would otherwise be wasted (circular economy)
• Outline how Te Ao Māori values are incorporated

The fund supports projects, initiatives or programmes which demonstrate promotion or achievement of waste minimisation by promoting a circular economy for waste, and/or by supporting reuse, recycle and recover principles.

Funded projects, initiatives or programmes include but are not limited to:

• educational or behavioural change approaches that promote waste minimisation activity to the public or a particular target audience;
• infrastructure that helps divert resources from landfill;
• projects focused on understanding existing waste quantities and composition, behaviour or economic incentives, as a precursor to effectively reducing waste and/or increasing reuse, recycling and recovery of waste materials;
• design of product stewardship schemes or other solutions that promote and achieve waste minimisation;
• other initiatives that contribute to the actions and strategic priorities of the Manawatū District Council Waste Management and Minimisation Plan.

The Waste Levy Grants aim to increase the range, scale and number of waste minimisation activities on the Kāpiti Coast.

Waste levy grants include two funding categories to help you with your waste minimisation projects:

• community projects
• business waste reduction projects.

We especially encourage project applications that:

• move up the waste hierarchy to a circular economy
• shift to a low-emissions, low-waste society, inclusive and equitable outcomes
• reduce amount of organic waste sent to landfill
• reduce, rethink, redesign
• reuse, repair, repurpose
• protect and regenerate natural systems.

We receive funds from the national waste levy – a government charge for all waste going to landfill.

We know that some of the best ideas and deliverers of waste minimisation initiatives are within our community, the funding is there to support these initiatives.

The Waste Minimisation Fund supports new local initiatives by providing the opportunity for annual funding of up to $10,000.

We’re looking to fund new projects that contribute to waste minimisation, avoid harm and improve resource efficiency.

The council allocates funding for small projects, community initiatives and commercial innovation and development that demonstrate or encourage waste minimisation activities.

The Canterbury Waste Joint Committee is responsible for advancing regional solid waste and hazardous waste minimisation in Canterbury. The Committee annually invites proposals for suitable waste minimisation project proposals within the Canterbury region.

The WMIF will support projects that promote or achieve waste minimisation, include educational projects that promote waste minimisation activity only, result in new waste minimisation activity (either by implementing new initiatives or a significant expansion in the scope or coverage of existing activities) and last for a funding timeframe of one to three years, after which the project objectives should have been achieved and, where appropriate, the initiative has become self-funding.

The Ākina Foundation Impact Investment Readiness Programme is for New Zealand business with a realistic plan to make a social or environmental difference. The programme helps fund whatever professional support is needed to secure investment, including legal fees, marketing and communication services, and financial assistance.

Your circular plastics project

This PlasticsNZ subsidy is for businesses embracing circularity – the idea of designing products that go back into the supply chain when finished with, rather than into landfill. It covers systems, products and packaging. PlasticsNZ will subsidise up to 50% of consulting fees during your discovery and/or action planning phase(s) to help you achieve your 2025 plastic packaging targets.

Hackland is a makerspace in Auckland where anyone can come to learn, make or just hang out.

Sign-up to get 24-hour access to 3D printers, CNC machines and a whole heap of other tools and materials.

Own less, do more.

The Auckland Library of tools is a community hub that provides access to a broad range of tools and equipment, reduces unnecessary consumption, and empowers people to build, share and create in a more sustainable way.

It has a range of tools and equipment for construction, gardening, woodwork and textiles. Located in the shared workshop space Hackland.

Join our community of Makers

A space that delivers practical, creative and innovative pathways that unlock values from localised waste streams through the sharing of equipment, space and ideas.

Join our circular maker movement through one of our memberships. Anyone can purchase a RE: MAKER SPACE membership which allows you to utilise all of the equipment, gives you access to a network of experienced makers, and you get discounts on workshops and room hire.

Te Tahua Pūtea mō te Kirihou Auaha

The Plastics Innovation Fund supports projects that will minimise plastic waste and its harm on the environment. We are seeking to fund projects that find ways to use less plastic and make what we do use reusable or recyclable.

The primary objective is to promote or achieve plastic waste minimisation.

We are looking for ways to reduce plastic waste at the source, separate out plastic types and keep them in the highest possible quality for the longest possible time. This is particularly difficult when finding solutions for soft plastics — especially when contaminated by food, dirt or chemicals.

An Upcycle Collective

The ReCreators believe that collective business power will help both artistan and consumer alike.  By coming together under one brand, their multi-culturally diverse artistans can share their skills, showcase their products, all of which have been lovingly restored, revived or crafted from sustainable materials. Consumers can choose to either learn new skills through workshops, purchase custom made products or purchase from their pre-made selection.

Based at RE: MAKER SPACE Massey and expanding into Waikato.

We believe everyone has a creative side!

A material-resource supplier for creatives, such as artists, crafters and DIY enthusiasts.
They rescue and reprocess unwanted materials from commercial and domestic waste streams so that you don’t have to buy new materials for your creative project.
Panels and sheets of plywood, MDF, pine (treated and untreated), planks and lumber, chipboard, ACM panels, mixed media, hardboard, decking and cladding offcuts, laminates, native soft and hardwoods, paper and card, ready to use art panels, plastics and composites.

A treasure trove of craft materials.

Creative Junk is a not-for-profit community centre incorporated in 1985. They collect and accept a wide range of cheap and reusable materials. They usually have a good amount of paper, boxes, paints, books, plastic containers, bottle tops, fabrics and so on. Art materials and other equipment are for sale at wholesale prices.

Workshops are held to promote recycle, reuse, rethink and develop and strengthen education profile on and off site. They have a Makerspace for hire and provide sewing machines, tools and resources for you to use to create, upcycle or repair items using anything from their store.