Composting Food Packaging at Events

The CCC-led initiative Composting Food Packaging at Events was established to reduce the amount of waste that was being sent to the landfill from Christchurch events. A large amount of event waste is generated from food vendors packaging.

The success of the initiative has been due to:

building strong relationships with packaging distributors, food vendors and waste facilities.
tight controls (e.g. restricting trade to vendors with incorrect packaging), thorough training and monitoring.
measuring and monitoring, with quantified results in order to build baseline data

What you can do?

Sign the NZ Tourism Sustainability Commitment
Investigate accreditation programmes, such as Qualmark, Earthcheck, B-Corp, Enviro-Mark
Conduct a waste audit to see where your waste is coming from and where it is going to

Thanks to Kat Ralph-Triebels, the Event and Sustainability Manager from Total Waste Solutions for presenting at TECNZ Conference. If you wish to seek any further information please contact her at: M 027 232 3116 P 03 385 6972

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