Event waste management

We all love community events, but they can generate a lot of waste. You can find out more about waste management and minimisation in our Rubbish and recycling section. 

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Learn more about minimising event waste

With planning, you'll be surprised how easy it is to reduce waste at your next event. Check out our how-to videos and brochures.

Working with our partner councils, we've produced the following brochures to support your event planning: 

• Reducing waste at your event
• Event packaging guidelines for event organisers and food vendors in the Wellington region

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Bin hoods

We have the following available to borrow for free for your event:

• six sets of bin hoods to fit over 240L wheelie bins
• public litter bin covers to cover fixed street bins during your event

The wheelie bin hoods have bilingual labels and are colour coded.

Note that we don’t have wheelie bins for hire – contact Rubbish and recycling collectors to arrange these.

Book a bin hood

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Workshops

With effective planning and waste operations onsite, it's possible to divert more than 90 percent of your event’s waste from landfill. Kāpiti Coast District Council supports event organisers, stallholders, and food and drink vendors to reduce waste at events.

To do this, we run free event waste management workshops on a semi-regular basis; keep an eye on this page and our Upcoming events for new dates as they’re added.

Upcoming workshops

There are currently no workshops planned.

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Event waste case study – Movies in the Park 2021

Our Movies in the Park event in the summer months is rapidly becoming a favourite with locals, with 1800 people coming along this year to watch Wonderpark and Yesterday at Waikanae Park.

Events like these generate a fair bit of waste, so our Waste Minimisation team put out recycling and compost bins to help reduce the amount destined for landfill. Afterwards they sorted each bin to make sure things had been put in the right place.

Just over six wheelie bins were filled throughout the event, all of which would normally have gone to landfill. Instead, thanks to the combined efforts of the public and our Waste Minimisation team, 68 per cent of this was either recycled or composted! You can check out the full stats in the table below – in the end just two of the six wheelie bins contained rubbish, which was taken to landfill.

Extending this approach can make a huge difference to Kāpiti's waste over a year's worth of events, more than halving the landfill waste produced. Have a chat with our team about what your event can do! 

Thanks so much to:

• the team at Paekākāriki Holiday Park – who took our compostables, shredded them, and are turning them into new soil to feed the trees and gardens around the Holiday Park
• the Waste Station volunteers from Paraparaumu College’s SEAR Group – who helped people with which bin to use
• Low Cost Bins – for providing the bins, and collecting the event recycling and rubbish.  

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