Directory of what to do with each waste item a-z Source: WasteNet User Comments: Helpful to see how we can recycle things that aren't collected in curbside recycling.

Includes several case studies guides and links to organisations resources and websites associated with waste minimisation. Source: Ministry for the Environment User Comments: Lots of incredibly useful links about waste all in one place!

The downloadable Target Waste Guide is highly comprehensive and focusses on opportunities for reducing the quantity of material resources in the form of solid wastes that your business disposes to landfill with separate information for offices and manufacturers. Source: Christchurch City Council User Comments: Wow a wealth of information and not wordy at all mainly done in bullet points!

A website full of information how-to guides news and events to do with reducing reusing and recycling waste. There is also a section under the Take Action heading with guides and information specifically for businesses. Source: WasteNet User Comments: Really great to have a website with specific information for Southland businesses! I never realized there were sustainable business programmes and workshops down here!

WasteMINZ facilitates and shapes the best practice for environmentally and economically sustainable waste minimisation strategies in NZ. Their website has information about various sector groups including BusinessCare which you will find under the Resource Effiency link Source: WasteMINZ The Waste Management Institute of New Zealand User Comments:

Links to find out what recycling services and facilities or waste exchange programmes are available in your area. Source: Zero Waste New Zealand Trust User Comments: I didn't realize there were waste exchange systems in place in Southland until I saw this!

Links for information about waste management rubbish and recycling in Southland Source: Ministry for the Environment User Comments: Good to have the links straight to the right section of the council websites as I find it hard to find what I'm looking for sometimes

A practical guide for waste, water and energy intitiatives. Includes waste audit check list. Source: Future Genz User Comments: Some great tips, some information is out of date. Waste audit checklist at back is good for a quick audit.

A manual designed to help someone from a company or organisation to conduct a simple yet useful solid waste audit. Source: Zero Waste New Zealand Trust User Comments: All the steps I need to go through are right there in explicit detail - perfect!

A pamphlet providing an overview of the New Zealand Packaging Accord 2004 - an initiative to cut down on wasteful packaging. Source: Ministry for the Environment User Comments:

This website provides impartial factual information on packaging and it's impact on the environment as well as all of the Packaging Council's initiatives to minimise the environmental impact of packaging and increase packaging recovery rates by advocating cost effective sustainable solutions and championing product stewardship. Source: Packaging Council of New Zealand (Inc) User Comments:

This tookit asks you questions about potential clean production actions your firm can take by substituting materials changing processes saving water and much more. Next you add the actions that are possible for your fim to your 'Action List' and prioritise them with the help of the 'Instant Gains' page. Source: Auckland Regional Council User Comments: Loved the tips on prioritising and the whole toolkit just 'clicked' with me it was so structured.

Simple tips for re-using and recycling products to minimise rubbish and waste and save costs. Source: Ministry for the Environment User Comments: The sort of tips your mum told you when you were a kid but you'd forgotten - until now!

DonateNZ is a portal where individuals organisations and companies can donate goods time and discounts to schools early childhood and not-for-profit organisations in New Zealand. Source: DonateNZ User Comments: What an amazing intiative! Diectly helping both the environment and the community at the great time. Really great for a firm's image!

This guide is designed for businesses in Southland to make it easier for them to justify and work out how to set up a good recycling system. Source: Venture Southland and Wastenet User Comments: I had no idea that a business could recycle so much here in Southland - even polystyrene!

Encourage recycling by downloading this poster and displaying it to show where the recycling centre is in Te Anau. Source: Waste Net User Comments: Open the PDF in an up-to-date version of Adobe Reader, use “Fit to printable area” the “Page Scaling” section.

This guide will enable property owners, property managers and businesses to facilitate the set-up of building-wide recycling systems within their buildings, and will start to address resource use issues in the workplace. Businesses that are the sole occupants in buildings will also find this guide useful as many of the practical aspects of a successful system are the same. Source: Ministry for the Environment User Comments: This was really practical, enabled me to tick off all the people I needed to think about.

This dynamic directory lets you search by the material you wish to dispose of or by the service required e.g. kerbside collection. You can refine your search by Region (drop down box) or Town / City. You'll then be offered the contact details of the appropriate recycling operator(s). Source: Recyclers of New Zealand User Comments: Make sure you write the material whatever you want to recycle is made out of rather than the name of the product

A variety of quirky and eye-catching posters containing facts about recycling designed to raise awareness of the benefits of recycling. Source: Ministry for the Environment User Comments: The posters are simple yet very effective

This document provides the contact details and a decription of recycling bin and accessory suppliers focused on the needs of commercial operations. Source: Tasman District Council User Comments: All the info needed to take action in using environmentally friendly recycling bins and other acessories

Encourage recycling by using the NZ Recycling Symbols around your business and on your products. They're available as a FREE downloadable pdf. file in a variety of styles or you can purchase them as self-adhesive labels. Source: Recyclers of New Zealand User Comments: I'm going to stick these simple recycling symbols on the individual recycling bins I've purchased to encourage the recycling of the waste my firm generates

Southland disABILITY Enterprises through the Invercargill Recycling Depot collects and sells as many and as much recyclable items as logistically possible. This page explains what Southland Enterprises are achieving: reducing energy consumption while providing employment for people with disability Source: Southland disABILITY Enterprises Inc. User Comments: I'm definitely doing my recycling with these guys from now on! Helping the environmemt AND the community at the same!

Fullcircle collects and recycles over 200000 tonnes of paper per year and also provides waste audits analysing waste volumes and making recommendations that best suit an organisation providing the optimum cost-effective waste recycling system for your business. Source: Carter Holt Harvey - Fullcircle User Comments: Looks blank when the page loads scroll down to see the info!

Motor oil is a valuable resource which can be re-refined into lubricants processed into fuel oils and used as raw materials for the refining and petrochemical industries. This page outlines how to recycle oil safely. Source: Australian Government User Comments: Simple easy-to-understand tips.

This leaflet contains simple guidelines on worm composting, or vermi-composting as it is also known. Source: Christchurch City Council User Comments: This was great to see you don't have to buy a fancy system.

"Information on the HotRot in-vessel composting system an environmentally superior and cost effective alternative to landfill that also produces top quality compost. " Source: HotRot Composting Systems User Comments: Seems like the system is easy to set-up and run

This website contains information on why you should compost and why earthmaker should be your chosen compost system. Source: Earthmaker User Comments: Makes it easy-to-understand the process.

Bokashi is a brand specialising in environmentally friendly products for recycling kitchen and garden waste. Their website includes how their products can be used (with specific information for businesses) and where they can be purchased. Source: Bokashi NZ User Comments: Good range of products

Simple rules to follow when creating a newspaper bokashi bucket compost. Source: Bokashi User Comments: Great instructions and tips that can only come from experience