Sift Blog » rubber http://www.sift.net.nz/blog/ Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:01:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Textiles & Rubber – 7% makes up landfill http://www.sift.net.nz/blog/textiles-rubber-7-makes-up-landfill/ http://www.sift.net.nz/blog/textiles-rubber-7-makes-up-landfill/#comments Sun, 18 Apr 2010 22:33:33 +0000 Admin http://www.sift.net.nz/blog/textiles-rubber-7-makes-up-landfill/

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7% or 14,920 tonnes of the waste sent to Kate Valley landfill from Christchurch year end June 2009 was textiles/rubber waste. Things like old clothes and carpets  and tyres and old foam mattresses. Once again there is definitely room for reduction here.

Nationally textiles makes up 4% and rubber 1%.

**Source – Christchurch City Council, based on % breakdowns of waste sent to landfill as sourced from the Christchurch City Council’s 2008 solid waste survey conducted between July and December 2008. The figures are indicative only.

National data from MfE here.

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