Reduce Your Waste

There are heaps of ways to reduce your waste. Scroll on down to learn more.

The Waste Hierarchy

The waste hierarchy outlines the best way to best manage waste. It is designed to minimise the generation of waste in the first place and promote resource efficiency. The layers of the hierarchy are:

  • Refuse what you do not need
  • Rethink what you do need
  • Repair instead of replacing
  • Reuse as much as you can
  • Recycle right
  • Recover any remaining value
  • Dispose in the rubbish bin as a last resort

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The Waste Hierarchy

Refuse what you do not need
Rethink what you do need
Repair instead of replacing
Reuse as much as you can
Recycle right
Recover any remaining value
Dispose in a rubbish bin as a last resort

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Minimise Your Waste

Zero Waste Events

Learn about Zero Waste events and how all the waste coming into an event could be managed, by the reducing incoming waste. Zero Waste is made easy. 

Auckland Council is proud to support event organisers in working towards our vision of zero waste by 2040.

Zero Waste Partners

We are lucky to work with so many great waste-focused community organisations implementing zero waste programmes throughout the Auckland region, in partnership with Auckland Council. There’s so much to discover and get involved with, whether by learning more about waste at a free event or joining your local group.

Compost Collective

Find out how to Compost your food and garden waste at home with support from Compost Collective to get started with a system that suits your lifestyle.

Don’t have room for a system or a garden to use your compost? Learn about diverting organic material from landfill while getting to know your neighbours with Sharewaste.

Waste Minimisation

Learn how about reducing the amount of waste you create, you help prevent pollution and protect the environment. You also limit the amount of waste going to landfill, preserve natural resources and save money.

Love Food Hate Waste

Don't let food go to waste, the rubbish bin is no place for it. Love Food Hate Waste wants to change this. Learn how you was waste less food.

Waste Free Parenting

If we all do nothing because it seems like we are not making a difference, nothing will ever change. Learn how to make a difference for future generations.

WasteWise Advisor

Learn about a passionate team who implement waste minimisation engagement by unlocking community knowledge in a new way across Tāmaki Makaurau.

Aucklanders, are you WasteWise?

A free e-Learning course for Aucklanders to learn the basics of waste in Auckland, which can be used at any age and stage. It's a 2-hour course where you'll learn everything you need to know about how you can join the journey towards zero waste, simply by reducing and better managing your waste at home.

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ZERO WASTE LEARNING RESOURCE BOOK

Two extraordinary women, Jan Scott and Abeer Khankan, from English Language Partners North Shore, have developed the online Zero Waste Resource Book, an updated educational resource for its students and teachers. It is a fantastic output from our Local Board project, the Albany New Kiwis Zero Waste Education Initiative.

This amazing resource aims to empower English language learners from refugee and migrant backgrounds to become champions of Auckland Council’s 2040 Zero Waste target.

The teaching module contains a series of lessons relating to different zero waste topics. The aim is to both inform learners about Auckland’s waste issues and, at the same time, offer linguistic support to enable learners to participate in a series of zero waste workshops and activities outside the classroom.

Equipped with first-hand experience from their work with migrant students and ESOL teachers, Jan and Abeer spent numerous hours on the resource book during last year’s lockdown. They did a splendid job, using feedback from participants in the zero waste Local Board project to develop the final version. It is a great addition to the resources available for our migrant communities to learn about waste in Auckland.

Several colleagues from the Community WasteWise team helped review its contents and recommended sharing this valuable educational resource with wider communities. Overall, reviewers are impressed by its thoughtful and interactive design and outstanding level of inclusiveness; one commented:

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“This will be a great resource for the community. A lot of work has gone into making it so comprehensive”


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