Current Issues

Landfill’s

Landfill’s are the easiest yet most expensive means of solid waste disposal, both to the ratepayer and the environment.
All aspects of Landfill’s are negative
Choosing the easy option to dispose of an ever-increasing quantity of waste is the most wasteful thinking in society.
Waste is a complex issue, which only our commons sense, ingenuity and efforts to change bad habits can solve.
Disposal of solid waste to Landfills on the other hand does not require any effort or dynamic thinking. And therefore the opportunities to create employment and recover valuable resources are lost.
The short-term consequences of landfills are numerous and do nothing more than complicate the problems of waste disposal.

Short-term effects associated with disposal to landfill include:

• Noxious gas emissions
• Toxic leachate entering ground water and ultimately adjacent waterways.
• Loss of amenity to communities

Long-term effects associated with disposal to landfill include:

• Landfill Closure Costs
• Centuries of Monitoring
• On-going contamination
• Degradation of agricultural soils associated with the loss of organic material to landfill
• Ever increasing costs of building new replacement landfills

Dumping of solid waste into Landfills is NOT SUSTAINABLE. Will we be building Landfills on top of landfills before we realise there is no alternative but to change the practices of waste disposal away from landfills?

Sewage disposal to waterways

For years City Planners and Council Engineers have believed "The solution to pollution is dilution"

This has never been the belief of Maori.

Sewage disposal into any kind of waterway is unacceptable. There are alternatives but the "dilution" paradigm must be broken.

Depletion of natural resources.

There are no wastes in the natural environment. In all natural systems the waste from one process becomes the resource of another.

We are the biggest part of that natural environment.

Continued removal and wasteful disposal of resources is a serious problem we must take care of now so future generations can use the same resources we are gifted with today.

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          New Zealand

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