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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. 

Learn more | Bookable event waste resources | Workshops | Event waste case study | Related links

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[PDF 3.75 MB]
  • Event packaging guidelines for event organisers and food vendors in the Wellington region[PDF 934 KB]

Event management and minimisation plans, and post-event waste analysis

If you're expecting 1000 people or more to attend your event over its duration (whether it's a single or multi-day event), you'll need to put together an event management and minimisation plan and a post-event waste analysis report. Regularly occurring recreational activities, such as weekly sports events, don't need to do this. 

Complete an event waste management
and minimisation plan

The event waste plan must be submitted to Council for approval at least 30 working days before the event starts. 

If your event is smaller than 1000 attendees, it's best practice to complete the event waste plan template, as it will help you minimise your event’s waste. 

Your post-event waste analysis report will include information on the:  

  • types of waste generated by the event (for example, rubbish, recycling and compost)
  • amount of waste (by type) generated by the event
  • amount of waste avoided and diverted
  • waste management facilities used to recover, recycle, compost or dispose of this waste.   

There's an easy to follow template to complete this report and Council staff are available to support you through this process and provide resources.


Bookable event waste resources

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

  • nine sets of colour-coded bilingual bin hoods to fit over 240L wheelie bins
  • 14 public litter bin covers to cover fixed street bins during your event
  • an event audit/site clean-up kit.

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

Book event waste resources

Waste hoods in use at Movies in the Park 2021

Event waste hoods used at Movies in the Park 2021

Event waste litter bin cover

Event waste litter bin cover

Event waste audit and clean-up kit

Event waste audit and clean-up kit

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.

Event waste case study – Movies in the Park 2021Pie chart showing percentage of each waste stream at the event by volume; recycling 19%, glass 2%, compost 47%, and rubbish 32%.

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! 

 

Recycling (plastics)

Glass

Compost

Rubbish

Total

Diverted from landfill

Net volume (litres)

290

35

720

480

1525

1045

Percentage of volume of waste types (%)

19

2.3

47.2

31.5

100

68.5%

Weight (kilograms)

6.4

8.2

21.2

16.7

52.5

35.8

Percentage of weight of waste types (%)

12

16

40

32

100

68%

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.  

Related links
  • Reducing Waste at Your Event[PDF 3.75 MB]
  • Event packaging guidelines[PDF 934 KB]
  • Video – Waste matters

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