NZ has new recycling rules - what you need to know | TVNZ Breakfast 

Bring in the green spot system, if you make it a no brainer you will get the results

If it can not be recycled should not be made in first place

So are they going to give a bigger red bin to put the un recyclables in 🙄

In layman’s terms, everything goes into the rubbish bin

Rinsing everything clean... Wasting water that i pay on a metre. I think reducing unnecessary water consumption is more critical these days.

I try to include my recyclables when washing the dishes. Throwing out the lids is the one I have to remember.

This is confusing I think I will just burn my plastics lids and all in the back yard burner drum.

And then some feral dog walker walks past your bin and they throw in their dog poop bag in it!

Why can't the government improve the recycling services to cover everything? Or if they want to use the excuse it's too hard, or the recycled product can't go to a "market", then ban the packaging?

So now we can put less in our recycling bin, we will need bigger rubbish bins. Honestly they making it so complicated might as well just throw it all in the rubbish and stop recycling all together

My partner used to work for the council the stuff that people would put in recycling was crazy. Nappies, dead animals, electronics, paint etc all in the recycle bin. They wouldn't pick them up just take a photo of the bin to show the contents for the admin team and move on. Some people just don't get that recycling isn't an extra rubbish bin but the majority get it after a chat. It just comes down to people caring enough about our environment to spend an extra 2 mins just doing it right its not hard.

Love this interviewer. His mum raised him well, polite, nicely spoken, humorous, modest.❤️

I know what belongs in the rubbish bin... tvnz

What if your lid is marked recyclable 2? I always check the lids for their number and many are 2 so they have been put in the recycle bin.

I used to recycle everything i could but stopped because i couldn't read the symbols and had no idea what i could and couldn't so everything goes in my wheelie bin each week.

Honestly - we're still trying to recycle Chippy and Cindy

Everything goes in the rubbish then

Where do the lids go then? How do I know which number plastic is the lid made of?

Where was the marketing around this? I’ve literally heard nothing and only came across this PSA by accident during the ‘scroll hole’ on RU-vid!

Why don't we have 1, 2 & 5 marked with orange or a visible color under the plastic bottles or meat trays? That will help everyone make decisions quickly.

2:01 why? if we were able to recycle it before are we no longer able to ? did the plant that used to recycle it break or something ?

I am on tank water, I'm not wasting it to clean out containers, then getting a magnifying glass to read the recycle symbols, and then still throwing some of it in the trash bin. Now it ALL goes in the trash.

Get lost, make the suppliers ware this cost or use better packaging. We now just dump everything, not my problem. Most of it goes to dump anyway as it is "contaminated". Everyone has tried for years and have been let down badly by councils and manufactures.

I used to sort in recycling facility in Australia, if they didn’t have a buyer for the certain number on the plastic, we let it go to the skip. 1s are clear plastic bottles, 2s are milk bottles/laundry containers, 5s are 2litre ice cream containers. I think the bottle lids are all different numbers

So far no mention of steel tins and Aluminium cans, or glass

The council should have an option for a medium-sized recycling bin since every forthrightly bins are taken, and less product is recycled . ..

So am I getting a discount on my rates for doing their job?

why minus the lids?????

Aren’t coffee cups and fast food drink cups made from paper? I’ll have to print a chart because I’ll forget about the lids! 😬

The worst thing a city council and/or government can do is put another regulation on the public. Instead of virtue signaling the public, regulate the manufacturer the same as what was done with the bread tags

Why not place milk bottle tops in a empty milk bottle until full then also recycle ♻️

Unlike the good old days when glass was the norm and it got washed and use again,, I think that's called recycling too.

You are doing it to load more in the regular, smaller rubbish bins so the frequency of buying those tags increases. More tags bought to accomodate the spillover from the previously allowed items, more income for the council. Those tags have become so expensive as of late, and there is no doubt that the cost of these tags will go higher the moment the volume of the now non-recyclables reaches elevated levels. Good luck!

I find that the the recycling ♻️ symbols on some products are that small that you can't even see the numbers with a magnifying glass the recycling symbols and numbers should be larger by law.

The recycling companies and councils are behaving like choosing beggars. Let them sort it out or else it will all end up in the landfill. It's taken along time to get some people to recycle , let's not ruin this with too many details!

Im amazed people are allowed to comment TVNZ are good at turning comments off

At least putting nappies in a bin is better than leaving them in the carpark...

But what do you actually DO with the recycling stuff? Does any actual recycling happen?

Council's obviously have nothing better to do than to come up with these crazy idea's, my recycling habits won't change, stuff them

To keep NZ clean, instead of putting numbers on these recycled materials, add 10 cents on each packaging. And have a drop off zone so recycled items are dropped off, counted and get paid. This way the whole community will get involved. Parents and children will definitely support their children to earn a bit of money and in return we keep our Country CLEAN. All grocery supermarkets, takeaways, gas stations should get involved in supporting this initiative. Australia is up there.

We pay for the service 😊 u sort the bloody thing

Looks like all my rubbish is going in the rubbish bag..;since recycling has come to our city our street are littered

From one day to the next everyone’s (except packaging industry)being asked (?) to participate or follow rules for the benefit of our children's future, fantastic. But why is the program leaving rules out for the most important player out of the conversion, the food packaging industry? The program does service for the government and industry, but what about the people? Shouldn’t the emphasis be with the food packaging industry and government? The public is not part of the decision making process as to the materials the packaging industry chooses to use, right? If the government is serious about recycling it needs to be equally demanding of industry and not allow products lacking critical information on their items to be sold. Consumers must not be manipulated by industry and government and be treated with respect, that’s all of us actually. Government has been looking into dishonest packaging labeling, which are a serious health hazard with no results or solutions so far, nothing's happening why? It seems news readers may be restricted scripted very limited when bringing up issues we only get one side, again why? When consumers are clearly not part of a decision making process that effects them the program producer in fairness should encourage bring people together making us aware of the people that are making these decisions.Then all involved can sit at the same table and have a meaningful conversation. Does that make sense, of course. So far consumers of health education food town planning etc have not been invited to sit at the government and industry table. Consumers ie all of us, need to seriously start to get organized have a voice as the other parties or the resistance have already been for a very long time.

It's time to see how things are done in Japan. They have it down to a very disciplined science and most everyone follows the rules.

What about photo graphic paper or shiny paper.

If they say that with the old rules people were putting weird stuff in the bin, it's hard to think people will stick to the new tougher rules. What happens when this isn't followed? do you get a warning, fine ? Or do they just not empty your bin?

Here in the UK we have a bin for plastics a bin for glass a bin for cardboard and a bin for food plus the bin for everyday rubbish

On another note, the reason why people are finding it hard to get a GP appointment, and the clinics are sounding the alarm?. It is because of all the injections everyone has taken.

We recycle everything we can and used to only put out a rubbish bin once every 4 - 5 weeks or so. Don't have food scraps to put out (wasteful) and whatever can goes into compost that feeds our veggie garden. Suitable bottles are cleaned and go to beekeepers. Don't drink alcohol, soda drinks, etc so no wine or beer / coke cans, etc. Cardboard. paper, coffee grounds goes into compost, timber repurposed, batteries/ light bulbs to Mitre 10/ Bunnings (so easy to have a waste electronics basket).I recycle old computers (my line of work is software and IT) and repurpose by installing Chrome OS and give them away to whoever if I have available. Old mobile phones the same. Easy to convert to security/ dashcam cameras. The rest goes to e-waste recycling on the day. So I think I do my bit..... Living in Waitakere the rubbish tag system was great as we had the opportunity to manage our rubbish disposal and save quite a bit of money annually. Then Auckland Council in all its wisdom added a fixed cost (sneaky tax?) to our rates bill BUT we still need to attach a tag in Waitakere so effectively we are now paying twice for rubbish removal.....feedback an utter waste of time. I believe the new rubbish initiative to be just that. Counter productive, high administrative costs, ideological in execution (Government driven) and a huge disincentive to ratepayers that have been responsible and disciplined in managing their household waste. Just because you wag a finger and tell people to do something does not mean they are going to change old habits. 40% of kiwi adults are unable to read at a functioning level - now extrapolate that to responsible waste management through council literature and "re-education". As the saying goes "Yea Right mate - I am going to do my bottles in 1, 2 and 5's. Nah, lets just chuck in 3,4,6 and 7." Food scraps bin ----- mine sits in the corner of my shed, gathering dust and housing spiders. Any sudden windy day sees these bins strewn across residential roads and drivers playing zig-zag- don't hit the bin. Go figure..... A far better approach would have been a tag system (you pay for what you put out for disposal) and a rates incentive for ratepayers to manage their waste and recycle responsibly and sensibly. Now ? My bin goes out each week. Not so, but, definitely more frequently just to make a point. You get what you ask people to pay for..... more, not less rubbish.

And now you're only getting a full red bin. I'm gonna ditch the yellow for a larger red.

Ok team here's the new rules. First half is normal household rubbish, top half is recycling, pushed down hard. South Auckland for life.

Part 1 cool! Looking forward to Part 2 who are the local Kiwi companies recycling some of this. Eg the coat hangers to metal recyclers. Uht cartons to that company in Hamilton, etc. 🎉. Laurie

Thanks for the well explanation

if its that easy and fast to clean all before the recycling bin , you can come do it for all of us yes!

I just moved to New Zealand ... permanently and let me tell you she is pristine and oh so beautiful in comparison to the USA! LET US ALL KEEP AOTEAROA NZ BEAUTIFUL BY DOING THE RIGHT THING! 1,2,5! .. OH this should be the new nz recycling motto! Also I'm ZERO-WASTE, MINIMALIST AND follow a PLANT ONLY CLIMATARIAN DIET for the planet and our future.

How many Councils actually have recycling contract in place and functioning? Fewer than you would think!

Still remember you could recycle the long neck coke, fanta drink bottlefor 20c. in the 70/80s. Everything was glass back then, but not so today

Where do the metal lids of cans of cat food go? 🤷‍♂

The recycle number system is not user friendly. Older people can’t see little numbers on the bottoms of contains. I’m dumb and if you had a big green recycle logo on a container/packet then it’s going to work a lot better ! Why do they have a red bin for recycling by the way! Green yes for plant material, but yellow for recycling? Red for rubbish? People associate green with being “green” lol 😂 shit now I’m Totally confused

1:50 and why is that? are they made from thermoset plastic that cant be melted?

What say the lid has a 1, 2, or 5 recycling mark?

Maybe our government needs to take control of this industry instead of greedy kiwi private owners which pick and choose what the easiest and most profitable items are to recycle. We are disposing of tons of recyclable plastics into landfill for our future generations to deal with. I also find it strange that everything needs to be cleaned when the process of recycling involves machines that clean the items thoroughly first.

I'm a kiwi living in china and u can leave bottle tops on and leave it dirty and they will PAY u cash for your recycling so what is going on with nz recycling??

The reality is our recycling efforts are not making the most cost effective results from what is a resource that has more value than given credit for.

This is crazy. We need to waste water to clean everything. Come on preserving water is a must. When we make things this complicated people just give up. Way to much bs

What about steel? I’m guessing tins are ok, but what about things like used nails and roofing iron offcuts? Do they go in the skip or can they be recycled? Is there an electromagnet at the facility to isolate steel?

Why recycle when the council dumps the lot in the hills,i know this because my man was the dumper the councils are not green and charge us for the green bill

“It can’t go to a market”. Make one lol. We aren’t a third world country

None of it gets recycled anyway... what a circus.

The neat ones are going adjust and do the right thing. The rest (% your guess) are just going to carry on, (probably contaminating the recycling of others.) Again just a wish list. If there is no consequences many/most people won't do it these days, I'm sorry to tell you. (Runners who go ahead of the truck and check and sticker bins with unsuitable waste are too few, if you want to be serious about it.)

so basically we end up recycling stuff all of the plastics that are used

You're suppose to raise them...where do the hangers go?yes green dot it...it would have had to be better to have done this long time ago when people realised plastics didn't break down...

Cardboard should be composted... Why no lids!?? They have plastic numbers?

Crazy stuff time to get out the magnifying glasses for these numbers. What the hell do we do with the lids?

Coffee cup lids are plastic #2. Why not compost them!?

They'll need to swap the bins around so the recycle is the little and rubbish is the big.

This changes nothing il just be putting rubbish recycling all in the rubbish bag and I know for a fact alot of people will do the same

Recycling does not equal zero waste!! Eventually everything ends up in landfill, recycling only delays the inevitable end.

What about lids on tin cans?

It's easy to follow the rules and regulations and people are complaining about having to recycle and follow regulations

Where does the recycling go

Captain James Kirk here of the Star Ship Enterpize on behalf of the federation You are hereby oderdered to stop recycling lids

Waste of time its up to the manufactures to package food in things that are biodegrade and for shops not to buy things that cant be recycled in the first place.

but some lids have the correct numbers!!!!

Define "lid"

How she can lie so blatantly is beyond me. New Zealand's poor track record for recycling is about to get even worse. A Fair Go investigation can reveal that the vast majority of mixed recycling collected from public bins ends up in landfill. March 2023.

3:06 soo why cant we recycle the other numbers ?

So many things that we don’t recycle 😢

If the government and private businesses CARED themselves 'about the environment', they would outlaw plastic packaging and packaging that can't be recycled... but wait, I forgot, it's all about money!

Bit late isn't it. It wont stop . These items were not recycled,to begin with. So why leaving this too last minute. I am one of those, who remove labels and also washed out containers. Never let males loose in the allocations into bins.

I love the transition from proudly recycling to omg I just exposed my lifestyle 😂 That's the tahi 😂

The whole system is too complicated. If recycling is ever going to work it has to be simple for everyone to work. The new rules do not simplify the process. Why bother?

Good luck

Don't want the bins do my own

Recycling is largely a con and an utter waste of time, resources and money. The vast majority of "recycled" material is put in landfills.

Standardized recycling = huge cuts and lay offs to recycling.

1 news once again seriously, what a disgrace , challenge these manufacturers, if you believe in what is doing the right thing , do that , but why no lids ? No explanation to why ?

Only 10 k people watched this there's 5 mill in nz

This council lady have been working for council for so many years! Why didn’t she come up with this idea a long time ago? She SITS on her arse first so long! Could have saved rate payers heaps! Holding positions and sitting on it!!

How do they recycle the recyclables?? Plastics? Cardboard? Paper? This is where they should be making power stations to burn rubbish to generate power!!