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Price Changes

Depending on your service and location, from 1 January 2025, your waste and recycling charges may increase to reflect current operating costs and our continuing investment into sustainable, best-practice waste solutions. 

Why are prices increasing?

It is necessary to increase our prices from 1 January in response to a number of factors. Ongoing inflation means everyone’s labour and operational costs are going up, including WM New Zealand’s disposal and processing partners, materials recovery facilities and transfer stations. We’ve tried to keep prices as low as possible, while still delivering reliable and sustainable services.

Increasing Costs

It means everyone’s labour and operational costs are going up, including WM New Zealand’s disposal and processing partners, landfills, materials recovery facilities, and transfer stations.

The Waste Disposal Levy

Each year in July, the Government increases the landfill levy, making it more expensive to send waste to landfill. This money goes directly to the Government for distribution in waste minimisation projects.

Emissions Trading Scheme

To significantly reduce landfill greenhouse gas, we invest in technology to capture over 90%, converting it to electricity or destroying it, and buy credits for any uncaptured gas.

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Reduce your costs

Review your services

Review your services

We can review your services to make these more efficient.

Increase recycling

Increase recycling

We can identify recycling solutions to reduce the total costs of your waste.

Advice

Advice

We can provide procurement and recovery advice that will reduce your waste to landfill.

Investing in our Circular Economy

We are creating more circular solutions for your reusable materials through our new Circular Services division. 

To find out more about our circular investments for your future, click here.

To help recycle large plastic items, we’ve invested in Te Taniwha o te Kai Kirihou, our plastic-eating monster. It processes items like wheelie bins and pallets, turning them into chips for recycling—a first for New Zealand.

If you have building and construction waste, talk to us about our material recovery facilities, which we’re extending to make recovering B&C materials easier. Working with Aliaxis (Marley), we collect uPVC and PE piping for remanufacturing.

If waste must go to landfill, rest assured our innovation and investment in landfill and energy parks ensures New Zealand uses some of the world’s best technology. We stop greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere and convert over 95% of landfill gas into renewable energy.

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