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The Caps & Lids recycling programme launched in September 2024, has been designed to ensure as many metal and plastic caps & lids as possible don’t end up in landfill; but, instead are recycled into new products.
It is funded by organisations that are members of the programme, and is run by The Packaging Forum, which also operates the Soft Plastic Recycling Scheme, the Food and Beverage Container Recycling Scheme and the Glass Packaging Forum Scheme.
Other organisations involved in the programme include industry groups such as NZ Food and Grocery Council, Plastics NZ, NZ Association of Metal Recyclers.
In February 2024, it became no longer possible for Kiwis to recycle their caps & lids through kerbside collections (Standard Materials for Kerbside Collections Notice 2023 (Notice No. 1) – 2023-go4222- New Zealand Gazette , section 8) because of the standardised collection of materials announced by the Ministry for the Environment in 2023. Despite the plastic and metal caps & lids being a valuable material, they have been excluded from collections.
