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Event waste management and minimisation

Council wants to support you in reducing your event waste to minimize the waste footprint of your event. 

Thinking about how to deal with refuse and recycling created during your event will be good for the environment, your event's participants' experience, and your wallet.

We created an event waste management and minimisation plan template to guide you on what to consider while planning your event. Use our form below or download it here.

Once submitted and approved, your event will be eligible for the free use of:

  • Three recycling wheelie bins (240L each)
  • Six glass crates 

If you have your own event waste management and minimisation plan, want to ask about event waste, or discuss your next event's waste management, our waste coordinator is available for any questions.

Please send your queries or draft plan to info@bdc.govt.nz with the subject "event waste management plan". 

Please refer to our website for more information on accepted recycling items in Buller.

Important information:

  • Complete one plan per event
  • Plans must be submitted at least one full week before the event
  • If the plan is approved, you must pick up and drop the bins and glass crates off
  • The event organiser must ensure the recycling is correctly sorted to be accepted for free disposal at one of the district's transfer stations
  • The event organiser is responsible for managing and covering the cost of collecting and disposing of rubbish created during the event

Download our event waste management and minimisation guidelines

Event Waste Management And Minimisation Guidelines

Waste management and minimization plan

Your details
If your event is a multi day event please state the first day of the event
If your event is an one day event please state the start date as the end date here.
Event details
Event type *





If your event is a multi-day event please state the total number of participants expected over the entire event duration.
Type of vendors at the event *






Waste minimisation
This can include food waste, cardboard/paper, glass bottles and jars, aluminium cans/tins, single-use plastic e.g., plastic cutlery, or plastics #1, #2 and #5
Refer to our event waste management and minimisation guidelines for examples and ideas.
How will you deal with the items going to landfill? Tick which option/s apply. *



What types of waste management facilities will be available onsite? * All recycling must be sorted and follow the district's guidelines in order to be disposed of for free at the local transfer stations.





This plan can be hand drawn.
Type of recycling containers requested
Please select which recycling containers you would like to use during your event * Upon completion of a waste management and minimisation plan, event organisers are eligible to receive the following: 1. Three recycling wheelie bins 240L for plastic, cardboard and tins 2. Six glass crates These are the event organiser's responsibility to pick up and return. The event organiser is responsible for managing and covering the cost of collecting and disposing of rubbish created during the event.




Recycling containers can only be collected during opening hours. Refer to our Transfer Station page for details.
Please state the transfer station to collect your containers *


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