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Scoop
21-04-2025
- Politics
- Scoop
Kiwis Invited To Have Their Say On Revised Waste Legislation
New Zealanders are invited to share their views on proposed changes to the country's key legislation regulating waste and litter. The proposals aim to modernise New Zealand's outdated waste legislation, providing more options to reduce and manage waste effectively. Glenn Wigley, Ministry for the Environment General Manager Waste and HSNO Policy, says updating the proposed legislation is one of the main priorities on the Government's recently released waste work programme. 'The new legislation will replace the Waste Minimisation Act 2008 and Litter Act 1979, giving New Zealand the modern waste legislation our country needs.' Public consultation opened on 22 April inviting feedback on five proposals: creating a framework for extended producer responsibility, to ensure producers remain accountable for their products even after consumers have used them changes to how the waste levy is allocated to territorial authorities, and what they can spend the money on clarifying roles and responsibilities for central government, local government and the waste sector improving tools for compliance, monitoring, and enforcement enabling efficient and effective measures to control littering and other types of mismanaged waste. 'We want to know what New Zealanders think about the proposals, which are designed to make our waste legislation more effective, clear and consistent,' Mr Wigley says. 'We also want to understand the impacts on all parts of the waste sector, so we can make sure the legislation is workable and suits New Zealand's needs.' Consultation will run for six weeks until 11:59pm on Sunday, 1 June 2025. Feedback will help shape the final proposals for the legislative amendment. A consultation document and submission forms are available on the Ministry for the Environment's website: Have your say on proposed amendments to waste legislation - Ministry for the Environment - Citizen Space
Yahoo
09-02-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Ex-leader wanted Lord Elis-Thomas back in Plaid
Former Plaid Cymru leader Lord Wigley says he would have liked his late colleague Lord Elis-Thomas to have returned to the party before his death. Lord Elis-Thomas, also a former Plaid leader and first the Llywydd - or speaker - of the Welsh Assembly, died aged 78 on Friday. His biographer, Aled Eurig, told BBC Politics Wales his old party behaved "shabbily" when Lord Elis-Thomas applied to rejoin in 2023. Plaid Cymru has been asked to comment. Lord Elis-Thomas left it in 2016 to sit as an independent and became a minister in Carwyn Jones' Labour Welsh government. But his bid to return to his original political home in August 2023 was abandoned. No Welsh budget deal yet, says Lib Dem leader Under fire GP company hands more surgeries back Children starting secondary school as vape addicts Lord Wigley said he would have "very much" liked to have seen his former colleague return, adding: "I regretted very much that he'd gone." Conditions, he said, were put on his rejoining and he was "not willing to go along with those". Mr Eurig said Lord Elis-Thomas was "keen" to return to the party under Rhun ap Iorwerth. "Instead of Plaid welcoming somebody who'd been of service to the party for 50 years and more, they created a tribunal, a disciplinary process which totally set to one side what Dafydd's record overall had been," he said. Dafydd was Lord Elis-Thomas' first name. He left Plaid Cymru over disagreements with then leader Leanne Wood. Lord Wigley said he last spoke to his former colleague more than a year ago, before the plan to rejoin was ditched. "The last conversation I had with him was the hopeful one that we would both be working together in the House of Lords on the Welsh agenda, and I was very sad that it hadn't happened," he said. You can catch up on Sunday's episode of BBC Politics Wales on iPlayer Lord Elis-Thomas: From maverick to political establishment Who was ex-Plaid Cymru leader Lord Elis-Thomas? New political system poses great danger - Wigley
