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Waste Levy Grants

The Waste Levy Grants aim to increase the range, scale and number of waste minimisation activities on the Kāpiti Coast.

They are funded by part of the Waste Levy fees paid by waste disposal operators to the Ministry for the Environment, which is then allocated to local bodies to administer. There is no rates funding involved.

Waste Levy Grants

Applications for the 2022/23 funding round open 6 July 2022.

About the Waste Levy Grants | Timeline | How to apply | Recipients 2021/22 | Previous recipients | Case studies | Related links | Media releases |

About the Waste Levy Grants

Waste levy grants include three funding categories to help you with your waste minimisation projects: 
  • community projects
  • seed funding for innovative waste initiatives
  • business waste reduction projects.

Find out more about waste minimisation in our Rubbish and recycling section.


Timeline

The following timelines apply for all Waste Levy grant applications.

Date

1 July 2022

Opening of Waste Levy Grants applications.

7 August 2022

Closing of Waste Levy Grants applications.

August 2022

Acknowledgement of your application by email.

November/December 2022

Funding decision made by Grants subcommittee.

December 2022

All applicants notified of outcome.


How to apply

You can apply online, or download an application form. 

Waste levy fund for community projects

Funds available:

A fund pool of $20,000 was available for Community Projects in 2021/22.

To fund:

practical waste minimisation projects that:

  • encourage community participation and education
  • and/or are of benefit to the Kāpiti community
  • lead to long-term waste minimisation action and behaviour change.

Fund open to:

  • community groups
  • businesses
  • iwi/Māori organisations
  • educational institutions
  • neighbourhood groups of at least five households
  • other community-based organisations.

Notes:

There is no minimum amount per application. Each application will be assessed on its merits, on a case-by-case basis.

Forms and guides:

Community projects fund criteria and application guidelines 2021/22[PDF 198 KB]

Apply 

  • Waste levy fund – online application
  • Waste levy fund – download application and print (These links will be updated when the fund opens)

Waste levy fund for Seed funding

Funds available:

A fund pool of $20,000 is available for seed funding 2021/22.

Note: this fund pool is shared between the seed funding and business waste reduction categories.

To fund:

establishing waste minimisation businesses or initiatives on the Kāpiti Coast, and creating opportunities for waste minimisation and economic development.

Fund open to:

  • businesses
  • organisations
  • social enterprises.

Notes:

Funding for this category is allocated through a two-stage process: 

  1. applicants will be required to submit a brief Expression of Interest (EOI)
  2. selected applicants are then invited to submit a full application.

See the Timeline for the relevant deadlines.  

There is no minimum amount per application. Each application will be assessed on its merits, on a case-by-case basis.  

Forms and guides:

Seed funding criteria and application guidelines 2021/22[PDF 222 KB]

Apply 

  • Seed funding – online application
  • Seed funding – download application and print (These links will be updated when the fund opens)

Waste levy fund for business waste reduction

Funds available:

A fund pool of $20,000 was available for business waste reduction projects in 2021/22.

Note: this fund pool is shared between the seed funding and business waste reduction categories.

To fund:

existing businesses to implement measures that will lead to long term and measurable minimisation of waste from the business’ operations.

Fund open to:

  • businesses
  • organisations
  • social enterprises.

Notes:

Projects applying under this category can only apply for up to 50 percent of the total project cost.

There is no minimum amount per application. Each application will be assessed on its merits, on a case-by-case basis.

Forms and guides:

Business waste reduction fund criteria and application guidelines 2021/22[PDF 197 KB]

Apply 

  • Business waste reduction – online application
  • Business waste reduction – download application and print (These links will be updated when the fund opens)


Recipients 2021/22

Of the 18 applications received, 15 groups met the criteria and were selected for full or part-funding of an activity, with $36,828.15 awarded in total.

Recipient Project Year
Community project grants
Little Earth Montessori Kāpiti $782.28 – to purchase cloth nappies. 2021/22
Ōtaki Boating Club  $4,650.00 – to establish a fish processing station to redistribute fresh fish heads and frames to the community. 2021/22
Ōtaki College  $518.23 – to set up a composting system in their Horticulture Block. 2021/22
Ōtaki Kindergarten  $263.44 – to set up new compost bins and a worm farm. 2021/22
Our Lady of Kāpiti Primary School  $500.00 – to set up a three-bin steam onsite. 2021/22
Raumati South Kindergarten  $282.61 – to set up a worm farm onsite. 2021/22
Raumati South Technology Centre    $2,140.47 – to set up a composting system. 2021/22
Raumati Village Community Garden  $720.00 – to upgrade their compost bins. 2021/22
Small Wonders Childcare Centre $608.86 – to set up compost tumblers and a worm farm. 2021/22
Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Te Rito  $3,488.94 – to expand the Ōpara Initiative. 2021/22
Te Puna Oranga o Ōtaki   $700.00 – to set up worm farms at Te Puna Oranga o Ōtaki and at Raukawa Marae. 2021/22
Zero Waste Ōtaki  $5,284.25 to purchase a 20-foot container cover to create covered yard space at their timber recovery site. 2021/22
Business waste reduction grants
Figgy & Co  $3,027.50 – to transition to using New Zealand post-consumer recycled plastic bottles. 2020/21
Te Wānanga o Raukawa $3,375.39 – to rehome excess office furniture via All Heart NZ from their campus redevelopment. 2020/21
Seed funding
The Kai Ora Initiative $10,486.18 – to establish a residential and commercial food and garden waste collection service, centred around Paraparaumu East. 2020/21


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Previous recipients

Recipient Project Year
Community project grants
Kāpiti Waldorf Trust  $4800 – To upgrade Te Ra Waldorf School’s current onsite composting system with two CarbonCycle bins. 2020/21
Paekākāriki School and Garden Group  $4000 – To upgrade their aging compost pallet bins and to develop a compost educational programme for students, staff and the community.  2020/21
Paraparaumu College SEAR Group $1700 – To establish aluminium can recycling throughout Paraparaumu College. 2020/21
Māoriland Charitable Trust $1240 – To deliver community and business waste education and engagement for the Māoriland Film Festival 2021. 2020/21
Ōtaki College $3100 – To set up a working ‘plastic recycling station’ in their technology class. 2020/21
Business waste reduction grants
Koakoa $4596 – To source 400 reusable crates to extend their bottle return scheme 2020/21
Māoriland Charitable Trust $3000 – To add two additional NZBox composters to the Māoriland Hub maara (garden) to increase capacity to process organic waste from local businesses and the local community. 2020/21


Case studies

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Paekākāriki Playcentre (Community Projects 2019/20)

cloths hanging on clotheslinePaekākāriki Playcentre is a not-for profit parent-run early childhood centre who saw a need to say goodbye forever to the mountains of paper towels they were throwing away.

The Community Project funding they received in 2019/20 from Council meant they could purchase reusable, cotton hand towels instead, saving money and reducing waste.

They haven’t needed to buy any paper towels for either their bathrooms or the kitchen since they got the cloth towels, and parents support the mahi by taking them home and washing them.

They estimate this small change has replaced the need for 16,000 paper towels!

Playcentre parents have found that putting the cloth towels into their existing paper towel dispensers makes them easy to use – kids just pull one out and then put them into the wash baskets.

They have also noticed this has sparked some great conversations about sustainability with the children – talking about the planet’s resources being limited and trying to conserve them as much as possible through reuse.


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Koakoa (Business Waste Reduction 2020/21)

In early 2021, local award-winning liqueur and spirit-maker Koakoa secured a $4596 Waste Levy grant from the Business Waste Reduction category. It is now doubling down on its spirit crates system as it ramps up its sustainability commitment.

The spirit crates system was initially launched in 2019 by co-owners Chris Barber and Bec Kay in their response to the excessive amount of cardboard and glass being discarded in the hospitality sector after just one use.

The Waste Levy grant has enabled them to purchase an additional 200 plastic crates, doubling the scheme.

After the gin, vodka and limoncello is delivered in the green plastic crates, their hospitality clients return used bottles (in the crates) to the factory. After being washed, sanitised, and refilled the bottles are returned to their clients. Each bottle is used up to seven times before ultimately heading for recycling.

Chris Barber, co-Owner of Koakoa, says to date their scheme has saved almost 2000 bottles from being discarded after just one use, delivering more than just financial savings.

“With the support of the new grant, we can now double the impact and the savings. It will reduce our environmental footprint further and help our customers reduce theirs.”

Koakoa’s bottle swap scheme addresses the top of the waste hierarchy: Reduce and Reuse, and is actively contributing to Kāpiti’s growing circular economy.

Image: Chris Barber from Koakoa receiving the empty bottles back from Tom at Longbeach in Waikanae.

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Earth Starch Waste Solutions (Seed Funding)

Waste minimisation company Earth Starch Waste Solutions are trialling a rapid treatment facility, which turns organic waste into rich fertiliser with no bad odour, vermin or toxic waste – all within a matter of hours!

Turning food and green waste into usable fertiliser makes a difference by reducing the methane it would release if it went to landfill instead.

Earth Starch Waste Solutions received $22,880 from the Seed funding category in the 2019/2020 Waste Levy Grant round. This has gone towards equipment for an innovative reactor which uses heat and a 100% organic enzyme to turn food and green waste into a highly nutritious compost within hours. The concept is being trialled in Kāpiti so in the future more Earth Starch treatment facilities will cost-effectively turn organic waste into garden gold.

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Paekākāriki Community Orchard and Gardens (Seed Funding 2019/20)

The Paekākāriki Community Orchard and Gardens (POG) community group have developed a village-wide composting initiative, which collects household food scraps and turns them into compost for the community garden’s fruit trees. This initiative reduces the volume of food scraps heading to landfill to generate harmful leachate and methane.

“We were staggered to learn that 28 percent of Kāpiti's kerbside rubbish collection is kitchen scraps. When added to landfill, these resources generate leachate and methane that contribute to environmental pollution and climate change. Council funding means we now have an awesome e-bike and trailer for collecting scraps and two large composting bins in the Paekākāriki Community garden,” says POG member Doris Zuur.

“We’re predicting that using this service to recycle food scraps may also allow locals to rent a smaller rubbish bin each month too.”

Image: Paekākāriki Community Orchard and Gardens (POG) member Spencer Crocker empties locally collected compost into the community bin.


Related links
  • Waste Minimisation Act 2008
  • Waste Levy Grants Allocation Policy 2020[PDF 301 KB]
  • Wellington Region Waste Management and Minimisation Plan
Media releases
  • Waste Levy Fund recipients announced (30 Nov 2021)
  • Council grants support waste reduction (14 June 2021)
  • Council backs waste reduction initiatives of Kāpiti schools and businesses (19 Feb 2021)

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