Is your business looking to reduce waste, minimise your carbon footprint, or become more sustainable?
Taranaki is on a journey towards a sustainable, low emissions future, and there are some simple steps you can take, to improve your business’ profitability and resilience, while reducing impact on the environment. Discover some of the tools available to help you make the change.
NPDC Zero Waste Fund
The Fund supports initiatives aimed at reducing waste in the New Plymouth District. It provides financial assistance for projects that promote sustainability, resource recovery, and education around waste management. The fund aims to foster community involvement and innovative solutions to minimize environmental impact.
Zero Waste Taranaki
An initiative by the region's three district councils to promote waste reduction, reuse, and recycling. It provides resources and guidance for individuals, businesses, schools, and events to transition towards a circular economy and minimise waste. The platform offers tools such as an A-Z waste directory to help people dispose of items responsibly.
Zero Waste 2040
NPDC's Zero Waste initiative focuses on reducing waste across homes, schools, and businesses to achieve a circular economy by 2040. Includes waste minimization strategies, recycling programs, education, and community collaboration. The initiative supports sustainable living practices and aims to divert waste from landfills through better resource recovery systems.
Sustainable Taranaki
An organisation focused on promoting environmental sustainability within the Taranaki region. It offers community programs, education initiatives, and volunteer opportunities that encourage waste reduction, sustainable food practices, renewable energy, and eco-friendly living. Its mission is to foster collaboration across communities for a more sustainable future in NZ.
International Frameworks
UN Sustainable Development Goals
The Sustainable Development Goals are 17 global goals adopted by the UN to address urgent challenges such as poverty, inequality, climate change, and environmental degradation. Each goal is associated with specific targets and indicators to measure progress towards achieving a sustainable future by 2030. They cover a range of economic, social, and, environmental issues.
B Corp Certification
B Corporation Australia is part of the global B Corp movement, certifying businesses that meet high standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency. The certification process encourages companies to balance profit with purpose, promoting positive impacts on society and the environment. B Corps aim to redefine success in business and create a more sustainable economy.
Circularity
Circularity helps businesses transition to a low-carbon, circular economy by using design-thinking methods. They guide companies through innovative processes to reduce waste, implement regenerative practices, and adopt sustainable, closed-loop systems. Their services include capability building, product innovation, and creating circular business models that benefit both people and the planet.
Ellen MacArthur Foundation
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation is a global leader in promoting the circular economy, aiming to create systems that eliminate waste and regenerate natural resources. The foundation collaborates with businesses, policymakers, and academics to design more sustainable economic models based on reuse, recycling, and reducing resource consumption. Their mission is to accelerate the transition to a circular economy for a more sustainable future.
Future Fit Business
Future Fit Business is a global framework that helps businesses align their operations with sustainability goals to contribute positively to society and the environment. It provides benchmarks for companies to measure and manage their social, environmental, and economic impacts. The platform guides businesses through becoming more resilient and future-ready by addressing global challenges like climate change and inequality.
The Global Reporting Initiative
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is an international organisation that provides a widely used framework for sustainability reporting, helping businesses disclose their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) impacts. Their standards guide companies in making transparent and comprehensive reports on sustainability performance. GRI aims to drive accountability and support informed decision-making for a more sustainable global economy.
Fitzroy Beach Holiday Park Case Study
In 2022 Venture Taranaki ran a series of workshops called 'Your footprint, your future: Emissions reduction in business' facilitated by the Sustainable Business Network.
Jenn from Fitzroy Beach Holiday Park attended these workshops, and not only found them hugely beneficial, but she has also already implemented some of what she learned in her business.