Kaibosh

sector groups
Nic Quilty
Sector Group Coordinator
nic@wasteminz.org.nz
The year is heating up, with
meetings and teleconferences
set up for a number of the sector
groups. Some groups will be
discussing current projects, most of
them in their inception, and others
will be identifying projects and
determining what their work plans
will be for the year.
Contaminated
Land Management
The NES and Contaminated Land
Fundamentals workshops were very
successful with high attendance
numbers. Panel discussions were
held at both workshops and the
minutes for these were distributed
at the end of last year. They are also
available on our website at bit.ly/
NESandSQEP.
Last year, the NES Working
Group developed a flow chart to
stimulate discussion on what a
SQEP system could look like. In
order to progress the flow chart,
the NES working group forwarded
out a survey to stakeholders. Thank
you to everyone who responded.
The results will be discussed with
the working group once a meeting
date has been finalised.
The steering committee’s first
meeting of the year will be held on
7 March.
Health & Safety
Funding has been secured to
develop parts three and four of
the Health and Safety Guidelines:
for the Solid Waste and Resource
Recovery Sector; resource recovery
parks, material recovery facilities
and transfer stations. WasteMINZ
has contributed funding from its
reserves, with the balance funded by
Onyx Group, Smart Environmental,
REMONDIS New Zealand,
EnviroWaste Services and the
Accident Compensation Corporation.
Thank you to those industry players
for supporting this project. Burke
Consulting and First Principles for
Safety have now been appointed to
develop the guidelines.
The steering committee met on
22 February, where the guidelines
were discussed and a work plan for
the year was developed.
Landfill &
Residual Waste
A very useful workshop was held
at the WasteMINZ conference to
give participants an opportunity
to provide input into an integrated
technical guideline document for
the disposal to land of residual
waste and other materials. The
guidelines’ project team met on 13
February to discuss outlines for the
proposed sections of the guidelines.
A workshop will be held at the midyear
roundup where feedback will
be provided and progress reported.
Liquid &
Hazardous Waste
An election was held to fill two
vacancies on the Liquid and
Hazardous Waste Operators
Certification Council late last year.
The elected Council members were
announced at the Council’s Annual
General Meeting, which was held
on 5 December 2012. The Council
now comprises of Bruce Holland,
Parkinson & Holland (chair); Wayne
Plummer, EnviroWaste Services
(deputy chair); Graham Farrelly,
Transpacific Industries Group (NZ);
Bruce Bain, Bain Liquids Disposal;
Grant Marshall, Wasteaway
South and John Matangi, JB’s
Environmental.
The Council will meet in the
next six weeks.
TA Forum
At the recent TA Forum, held at the
WasteMINZ conference, each TA
gave a brief outline of their current
projects and their number one issue.
The TA Forum teleconferencing
group will discuss these at their next
teleconference on 12 March. This
will determine where assistance is
needed and what the forum’s focus
needs to be this year.
Organic Materials
The mid-year roundup will feature
a stream dedicated to organic
materials, where participants will
look at the issues and opportunities
for organic materials, the key drivers
for diversion and evaluate the
various options available.
The steering committee will be
formalised very shortly, which will
enable the sector group to develop
its work plan.
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