Glossary | kuputaka - Dunedin City Council

The DCC funds its waste management and minimisation facilities, services and educational programmes in a variety of ways.

Autakata – Part of Te Taki Haruru, this guiding principle refers to people. Whakapapa is the foundation from which everything is explained and connected in te ao Māori. Pivotal to identity, whakapapa is knowing who you are and where you belong. The outcome is for traditional authority of mana whenua in Ōtepoti Dunedin being recognised through partnerships based on reciprocity and respect.

Biosolids – The organic residue from sewage treatment processes, and the processing of organic materials^[7].

Circular Economy – A circular economy designs out waste and pollution, keeps products and materials in use, and regenerates natural systems^[8]. In a circular economy, items people use to live, work and play is designed to be reused, repaired, or safely returned to the environment, so the materials they are made of are rarely wasted.

Circular Resource Network – Reorganising how the recovery of materials in the economy works, by establishing a ‘Circular Resource Network’. These can follow a range of models, as described in the Waste Assessment 2023.

Linear economy – In a linear economy, most of the things people use to live, work and play are made from natural resources, used and then disposed of, usually to a landfill.

Product stewardship – When manufacturers, importers, distributors and retailers of a product share responsibility for reducing the environmental impact of their product^[9].

Tapu and noa – Provide an element of safety over an activity or resource^[10].

Territorial Authority – means a city council or a district council named in Part 2 of Schedule 2 of the Local Government Act 2002.

Zero waste – achieving zero waste (e.g. for events) means to have no waste produced that needs to be sent to landfill.

Footnote

WasteMinz (2022) ‘Technical Guidelines for Disposal to Land – Revision 3’, URL: wasteminz.org.nz/files/Disposal to Land/TG for Disposal to Land_12Oct22_FINAL.pdf
Ministry for Environment (2022) ‘Ōhanga āmiomio - Circular economy’, URL: www.environment.govt.nz/what-government-is-doing/areas-of-work/waste/ohanga-amiomio-circular-economy
Commerce Commission New Zealand (2023) ‘Product stewardship schemes’, URL: https://comcom.govt.nz/business/your-obligations-as-a-business/product-stewardship-schemes
Dunedin City Council (2023) ‘Te Taki Haruru’.

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