Glass For Good
How the GPF's proposed scheme would work
This is an outline of how the proposed scheme would work. Validation is needed through a formal multi-stakeholder co-design process.
The benefits of the GPF’s proposed scheme
- Includes all container glass – from beer and wine bottles, to jam and pasta sauce jars.
- It is a simpler and more effective solution for container glass than the proposed Container Return Scheme (CRS)
- Will make use of the country’s already extensive kerbside recycling network, significantly enhancing New Zealand’s existing recycling infrastructure and collection networks nationwide.
- Doesn’t require any major changes to current recycling behaviours. Instead, the price paid by the scheme for glass encourages collectors to increase people’s access to recycling.
- Alongside councils and other existing collectors, community groups and organisations can collect and sell glass to the scheme for a financial benefit – the local rugby club, the marae in a rural community, even your kids’ school.
- Funding will be available to assist community groups with support that will help them to become a collector.
- It will pay the highest price to collectors who use best practice collection methods that recover 20-30% more glass for recycling with less contamination than mixed recycling collections.
- It will be fully funded by the glass packaging industry.