Congratulations to our Board and Life members

18.10.24 02:03 PM By WasteMINZ

The WasteMINZ AGM 2024 ran without a hitch on Thursday, 17 October, with about 30 people attending in person and 10 online. 


At the AGM, WasteMINZ chair Parul Sood and WasteMINZ chief executive Nic Quilty talked through the annual report - including the work we've done over the past 12 months and our financial situation. You can read the annual report here. 


Members voted to adopt a slight change to the WasteMINZ Rules, which documented in writing that nominees and nominators for WasteMINZ Life Membership must be current WasteMINZ members. Parul highlighted that work needed to be done to ensure there was robust criteria for life membership nominations, to ensure the Board can make informed decisions when ratifying the nominations. 


The full AGM minutes, with the updated WasteMINZ Rules, will be included in the next WasteMINZ Circular on 31 October.


Thank you to WSP for hosting us!


Board members

All three Board members have been re-elected. Congratulations to:

Dave Bull
HAIL Environmental

Parul Sood
Auckland Council

Paul Evans
Localised

Thank you to everyone who was nominated for the Board - it is an important time for our sector and we appreciate the quantity and calibre of our nominees. 

New Life members

Congratulations to Parul Sood and Sue Coutts on their Life Membership. You can read more about them below. 

Parul Sood, Auckland Council
​Parul has been involved in the waste sector, and in WasteMINZ specifically, for nearly 20 years. She has held a number of key roles at councils in the Auckland region pre-amalgamation, and then at Auckland Council from 2010 onwards. She has built a productive waste team at Auckland Council and is one of many women illustrating what strong collaborative leadership looks like in the waste sector and is someone for younger women entering the sector to look up to. Parul has held a number of key roles at WasteMINZ and delivers these very effectively alongside her roles at Auckland Council; including most recently as a member of the WasteMINZ Board and now Chair.

Sue Coutts, Zero Waste Network
Sue has over 20 years of practical experience running resource recovery centres and education programmes. She was the General Manager of Wanaka Wastebusters and a founding trustee of the Sustainable Wanaka Charitable Trust and the Zero Waste Network. After many years on the board of Zero Waste Network, she now works in an external relations role to influence the sector through relationships with the government, commercial and community sectors. Sue has been a passionate and active contributor to the sector and to WasteMINZ throughout all this time. She has regularly presented at conferences, written articles for Revolve, and worked with WasteMINZ members to move our focus up the waste hierarchy.