A toxic substance has proved lethal to worms used in a trial to process treated sewage sludge from the Queenstown Lakes District Council's beleaguered Project Pure wastewater operation at Wanaka.
The Dunedin City Council is enlisting the help of algae and more than 110,000 black bags to help clean the city's wastewater stream.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council has adopted a plan to spread sewage sludge on land near Luggate despite strong opposition stopping a similar proposal in the Ardgour Valley, near Tarras, last year.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council's inaugural online survey of 183 respondents on the issue of solid waste is "a tool for feedback", Mayor Vanessa van Uden says.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council is now seeking an alternative solution for dumping Wanaka sewage, this time near Luggate, having failed to gain support for a similar proposal in the Ardgour Valley, near Tarras, last year.
New ways to charge about 800 Dunedin businesses for trade waste have passed their latest hurdle without debate.
Refuse disposal charges might be reduced at the Oamaru landfill in Tamar St because of increased competition from outside the Waitaki district.
The launch of Dunedin's new kerbside collection system has come another step closer, with the signing yesterday of the multimillion-dollar contract for the service.
Objectionable odours should not be a problem when treated Roxburgh wastewater is discharged on land rather than in the Clutha River, a hearing before an independent commissioner was told last week.
Reusable cloth nappies could make a resurgence in the Queenstown Lakes district if a council bid to get disposable nappies out of landfills gathers enough community and council support.
Fast-tracked spending of an extra $11.6 million for the Tahuna wastewater treatment plant was approved yesterday, but the Dunedin City Council has promised to "closely monitor" the situation.
An extra 263 Dunedin households will get kerbside refuse and recycling next year.
Dunedin city councillors will be asked to fast-track loans of up to $11.6 million to complete the Tahuna wastewater treatment plant on time, just weeks after Mayor Dave Cull signalled a new drive to save money.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council is launching its first online community survey about waste management, Mayor Vanessa van Uden says.
Central Otago recycling pioneer Wanaka Wastebusters is right behind the drive for people to safely dispose of their unwanted "e-waste" tomorrow.
Waitaki residents will get the chance to dispose of old computers and other electronic products for free next Saturday.
The hurdles to recycling at Palmerston have required considerable work from the two-year-old Waihemo Wastebusters group, which is concerned about the lack of help from the Waitaki District Council.
New waste disposal systems at Queenstown Motor Park are starting to take effect but Lakes Property Services says residents need to stop being lazy and make more of an effort.
A project manager who discussed possible delays to the $75.8 million stage two upgrade of Dunedin's Tahuna wastewater treatment plant has been ordered not to speak to media about the project.
Lex Morris estimates he has two weeks' capacity left in his dairy-shed effluent ponds, which have been filling steadily because exceptionally wet weather has prevented him from irrigating it on to pasture.
