Experts are calling for urgent government action to prevent lead poisoning in our children.

Congratulations to our three Board members and two new Life members.

Read about organisations making reusable serviceware more accessible; refurbishing laptops to give to highschool students; and bringing reuse to the middle of Wellington city!

In this member spotlight, we talk to Anna Robinson from Dunedin, who is in the brand new role of Regional Waste Officer and works across all councils in Otago. Anna is passionate about behaviour change, and says it's a critical piece of work across all levels of change.

WasteMINZ is calling for the food and waste industries to work together to solve the issue of food waste in Aotearoa New Zealand.

In this member spotlight, we talk to Joanne McGregor, who has more than 20 years' experience in organic waste recovery, and says collaboration is the key to success.

Have you ever wondered what a sector group steering committee member does, and what value they get out of being on the committee? We spoke to members of WasteMINZ's sector group steering committees to get the scoop on why they love what they do.

In this member spotlight, we talk to Alyesha Candy, Technical Supervisor at Scion, who is passionate about adding value to waste streams (mostly organic waste from food sectors) and diverting them from landfill by using them to make biobased products.

Industry-specific guideline documents developed by the Ministry for the Environment (MfE) in the 1990s contain valuable information to guide development of contaminated land conceptual site models and source pathway receptor linkages.