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BRADEN FASTIER / STUFF
Disposable cups and straws accounted for 4.6% of all waste found in a national count conducted in 2017/18.
It is hoped that knowledge will prove powerful when it comes to suppressing the garbage habits of Kiwis.
Snack packs, disposable beverage containers and paper were identified as the items most often disposed of incorrectly in the last national waste survey released on Monday.
The report, which is the second of its kind, provides an overview of visible and bulky waste in eight regions, including Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, which account for just over half of the population
Love NZ and Be a Tidy Kiwi launched an advertising campaign in 2017 to encourage Kiwis to "put their litter in its place".
Lyn Mayes, head of the Public Place Recycling Scheme (PPRS), said the annual survey was an important tool for determining which containers were most often littered in order to find sustainable solutions to promote the marketplace. correct disposal.
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An Overview and Comparison That Will Be Used in conjunction with qualitative surveys of the evaluation tool of the own communities conducted by the project partner, Be a Tidy Kiwi, "she said.
ABBEY PALMER
Te Ngākau Civic Square in Wellington became one of the first places for a 12-month public refresher trial
Litter is defined as material that has been intentionally misplaced or not, in a public place.
The study found that snack packs accounted for 10.5% of all waste; with bottles of drinks, cans and cartons not far behind on 10.1 percent.
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PETER MEECHAM / STUFF
Litter is defined as a material that has been improperly disposed of intentionally or unintentionally. public place.
"The survey found an average of 30.5 waste items per 1000m2 In the last survey [2014/15] of exactly the same region, a total of 18,620 items were counted [32 litter items per 1000sqm]," said the director Bruce Middleton
. Although reducing waste and lowering grading sites seemed a good thing, Middleton said it could be due to the number of storms and heavy rains throughout the country during the summer
" more waste has been washed away by trails and roads and accumulated in rainwater channels and drains. "
In the latest CCAT survey, cigarette butts and chewing gums dominated the counts of trash found in crowded public places in Auckland.
