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Recycling in Southland

Recycling makes sense - it turns rubbish into useful products. Saving us money and reducing the amount of waste going to the Southland Regional Landfill.

Our Target

WasteNet aims to recycle 9,000 tonnes of material in 2013.    The recyclables will be collected from kerbside yellow recycling bins, recycle drop off centres, and Transfer Stations.  

What materials are recyclable?

The following products are recyclable:

  • Paper and cardboard
  • Plastics - bags, bottles, containers, lids, packaging and trays
  • White polystyrene
  • Metal cans - aluminium, tin and steel cans
  • glass bottles and jars

What resources are we saving?

Recycling saves a number of resources including trees, water, energy, oil and landfill space.  WasteNet has developed a 'resource calculator' that works out how many trees, litres of water, barrels of oil and cubic metres of landfill space is saved for every tonne of materials that are recycled.

 

How are we doing?

In May we recycled 597 tonnes of materials. That means we saved:

  • 4,496 trees
  • 5,671,118 litres of water
  • 4,697 drums of oil and
  • 2,126 cubic metres of landfill space.

We are 33% closer to our target of 9,000 tonnes saved in 2013.

 

In April we recycled 565 tonnes of materials.  That means we saved:

  • 4,026 tress
  • 5,072,249 litres of water
  • 4,296 drums of oil and
  • 2,023 cubic metres of landfill space.

We are 27% closer to our target of 9,000 tonnes saved in 2013.

 

In March we recycled 565 tonnes of materials.  That means we saved:

  • 3,939 tress
  • 4,970,670 litres of water
  • 4,147 drums of oil and
  • 1,964 cubic metres of landfill space.

We are 20% closer to our target of 9,000 tonnes saved in 2013.

 

In February we recycled 591 tonnes of materials.  That means we saved:

  • 4,039 trees
  • 4,921,295 litres of water
  • 4,358 drums of oil, and
  • 2,169 cubic metres of landfill space.

And we are 14 percent closer to our target.   Thank you for recycling! 

In January we have recycled 682 tonnes of materials.  That means we have saved:

  • 4,230 trees
  • 4,887,056 litres of water
  • 4,361 drums of oil, and
  • 2,424 cubic metres of landfill space

We are 8 percent closer to our target.   Well Done Southland !!! 

 

How did we do in 2012?

In 2012 we recycled a whopping 6,650 tonnes of materials.  That means we saved:

  • 48,730 trees
  • 56,102,167 litres of water
  • 49,459 drums of oil, and
  • 23,548 cubic metres of landfill space.

 

 

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