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The Government has announced it will spend more than $16 million to upgrade the city’s recycling facilities, a statement from Auckland Council says.
Mayor Phil Goff says the upgrade will improve technology used for optical sorting of the city’s recycling.
The $16.6 million in funding will allow Auckland to increase its recycling processing capacity by 28 per cent.
“This investment will help us to reduce contamination in goods put out by households for recycling, in the longer term, will help us recycle more here in New Zealand, rather than overseas,” Mr Goff says.
“We can’t just keep sending products to landfill and wasting valuable materials. We have in recent years focused on recycling as much as we can. However, we have relied heavily on this recycling occurring overseas, and with the closure of markets there for recycling, we want to minimise the risk of paper and plastics having to be sent to landfill.”
