Waste Minimisation Bill Archive

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    Campaigning on waste - by frog



    For some reason Labour is saying on its campaign website that it is: putting forward a Waste Minimisation Bill which will encourage producers to develop better designs and cleaner production processes to improve a product’s sustainability. That seems an odd sort of thing to do given the Greens have already got a Waste Minimisation Act [...] read more
    October 14, 2008 9:53 am - 10 Comments
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    Nandor shepherds waste bill through Parliament - by frog



    Nandor gave his second reading speech on the Waste Minimisation Bill last night. It retains the financial driver of the original bill – the levy on waste going to landfill. It is a blunt attempt at a pigovian tax, to internalise environmental externalities. The New Zealand Business Council for Sustainable Development suggested that it would [...] read more
    June 19, 2008 11:40 am - 37 Comments
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    Mike, Russel and Nandor - by frog



    I haven’t written about Mike, Russel and Nandor’s dance around that one chair in the debating chamber yet, and that’s partly because I’ve got a lot of respect for all three men. Obviously Nandor wants to move on and that’s a shame because he brings such an incredibly strong set of skills to the Green [...] read more
    June 5, 2008 9:27 am - 45 Comments