Solid Waste Indicators
Pressures
- Total quantity of waste disposed to transfer stations from residential and business sources
- Composition of waste disposed at transfer stations
- Total quantity of hazardous waste disposed to transfer stations and sewer
- Number of incidences and spills involving hazardous waste
State
- Compliance of disposal facilities with resource consent conditions
- Groundwater quality upstream and downstream of closed landfills
- Area of land designated for landfills
- Number of potentially contaminated sites
Response
- Number of landfills fully consented
- Quantity of waste recycled, composted or re-used as proportion of total waste generated
- Participation rates for recycling
- Quantity of hazardous waste safely disposed
- The amount Council spends on leachate and receiving waters
- Number of households receiving waste collection from Council