Legislative and policy framework

This WMMP fits within an ecosystem of national legislation and other strategies, plans, and policies, all working together to make change.

This Plan needs to fit with, and complement these others, while providing leadership in waste management and minimisation locally. The key surrounding strategies and policies, and how this Plan fits with them, is described in Table 4.

Table 4: A summary describing how legislation fits together, creating an ecosystem of change.

DCC Strategic Context

The DCC Strategic Framework incorporates eight high-level strategies, underpinned by Council’s commitment to the Treaty of Waitangi and the principle of sustainability.

The overarching vision to guide outcomes for the city is to ensure Dunedin is one of the world’s great small cities. This includes managing the use and development of waste resources, in a way that enables people and communities to provide for their social, economic, and cultural wellbeing and for their health and safety.

The DCC is refreshing its wellbeing strategies (Ara Toi, Economic Development Strategy, Social Wellbeing Strategy and Te Ao Tūroa). This work, combined with developing approaches that embed Council’s commitment to the Treaty of Waitangi and sustainability, is intended to improve Council’s ability to strategically lead the DCC toward realising community outcomes that consider future challenges while meeting its legislative responsibilities.

The Waste Management and Minimisation Plans’ guiding wellbeing strategy is Te Ao Tūroa.

The Treaty of Waitangi

This Plan has been developed with the Treaty of Waitangi (the Treaty) in mind. The Plan has been prepared and developed alongside mana whenua within the WMMP Steering Group. This approach has enabled the DCC to show its commitment under the Treaty. The plan demonstrates a reflection of Article 2 of the Treaty – where mana whenua maintain their tino rakatirataka (self-determination) over te taiao (the environment), a great taoka to Māori.

Actions in this Plan reflect processes of tapu and noa, and aim to protect and enhance the natural environment.

Te ao Māori – The Māori Worldview

The environment is of paramount importance in te ao Māori. It provides food, drinking water, as well as shelter. As a result, protecting and limiting harm to our environment is of high priority to mana whenua in Ōtepoti Dunedin and across the country.

Te Taki Haruru (the Māori Strategic Framework for the DCC) is based in the values of mana whenua in Ōtepoti Dunedin. The Waste Management and Minimisation Plan reflects the needs of mana whenua by aligning with key directions within Te Taki Haruru. There is a particular focus across all four pou, within the environmental wellbeing; the cultural wellbeing across the Autūroa and Autakata pou, as well as the social wellbeing across the Autaketake and Autakata pou. By actively involving mana whenua in the Steering Group, this uplifts the mana of mana whenua and recognises their whakapapa connecting to the whenua of Ōtepoti Dunedin. Furthermore, this plan utilises mātauraka from mana whenua for the benefit of the environment, which in turn uplifts the mauri of Ōtepoti Dunedin and recognises the balance of tapu and noa in keeping residents safe from waste.

Te ao Tūroa – The Natural World: Dunedin’s Environment Strategy

While the Waste Management and Minimisation Plan sits under the WMA, within the DCC’s strategic framework, the WMMP fits under the Te Ao Turoa – The Natural World, Dunedin’s Environment Strategy. The WMMP contributes more specific direction, actions, and commitment to achieving Te Ao Tūroa’s reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and to manage resources more sustainably.

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