The Council's Sustainability Initiatives
Working with the community to support sustainable outcomes for Waitakere City is only one side of the preverbal
'sustainability' coin. What Council does to address sustainability issues through its own
corporate practices is just as important.
Waitakere City Council activities include:
- Administration, policy, programmes and projects
- Consenting authority
- Street lighting
- Facility provider and management
- Roading
- Recycling and waste collector
- Landscape development and management
- Water supply
As an organisation Waitakere City Council affects the community and environment through:
- Employing staff from Waitakere City and wider Auckland
- Purchasing resources and services with preference for
"buy Waitakere"
- Consuming resources
- CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions
- noise and light pollution
- Recycling and disposing of its unwanted resources (eg water, paper, rubbish)
The environmental effects Waitakere City Council's activities contributes to:
- Air Pollution
- Climate Change
- Reduction in availability of finite and non-renewable resources
- Soil disturbance and coverage
Waitakere City Council has previously identified opportunities to reduce its impact on the environment through:
- Printing on recycled paper using vegetable-based inks.
- Double-sided photocopying and computer printing.
- Developing and adopting 'The Better Building Code' for Council buildings.
- Including sustainable building features in new Council buildings (eg New Lynn Community Centre).
- Trialling new technologies, (eg recycled aggregate,
permeable cobble stones).
- Innovative stormwater management systems at Council sites.
- Supporting the development of 'The Ecosourcing Code of Practice' and purchasing ecosourced plants.
- using swale drain a of systems
Waitakere City Council acknowledges that sustainability programmes are ongoing and in
future Council will be seeking to identify opportunities in:
- Reducing energy intensity of Council operations.
- Reducing waste sent to landfill
- Increase re-use of waste materials as resources
- Working with suppliers to support better business practice.
For more information on Waitakere City Council's corporate sustainability programme
contact us.
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