3R Group - Limited
Product Design in Hastings

Initiative SeatSmart product stewardship options for end of life car seats Client Key industry stakeholders Brief Enable retailers and organisations to work together to deliver a consistent, nationwide approach to the responsible disposal of car seats and increase awarenewss of car seat expiry dates 3R Role Project manager and on going programme management 3R Approach Industry collaboration. Critically, we can help you solve a key problem for your customers how to responsibly dispose of unwanted products and packaging. We have been involved in paint stewardship since 2004, when Resene approached us to help develop their programme. We developed effective solutions for collecting, processing, recovering and recycling products from paint and packaging. From the start, 3R have been working with stakeholders to establish an industry wide paint stewardship programme. 3R are also involved with the Australian Paint industry, providing our knowledge and experience to help them design an industry wide programme. 3R has been working with industry leaders since 200 to create an industry wide paint and packaging take back scheme for New Zealand. Our initial project involved designing, implementing and managing Agrecovery Rural Recycling, a programme we continue to successfully manage today. 3R was instrumental in setting up the Tyrewise project and leading the working group to find an industry wide solution for end of life tyres. 3R are keen to see a solution for e waste that is industry led and government supported. We talk about waste issues in New Zealand and some of the product stewardship programmes we manage. Investigation of regulatory requirements for priority product declaration under the WMA the Working Group’s preferred approach . While waiting for the government’s decision on tyres as priority product, 3R continues to work with the Working Group to further the stewardship of ELTs in New Zealand. Stakeholders from all parts of the industry joined other tyre industry leaders to help make New Zealand’s developing end of life tyre industry world class and shared international experience from established tyre stewardship programmes through our keynote speakers. The inaugural Tyre Industry Summit has helped to enable our emerging tyre stewardship industry to . Be informed about end of life tyre management what works and what doesn’t. 3R has been working with industry participants since 200 to create an industry wide paint and packaging take back scheme for New Zealand. Initiative Agrecovery Rural Recycling Programme product stewardship solutions for agrichemicals and their packaging Client Sustainable Farming Fund Ministry for the Environment Agrecovery Foundation Brief . Develop programme structure and governance model to own the programme . Agrecovery Rural Recycling provides a responsible and sustainable nationwide solution for chemicals and their containers. Initiative Agrichemicals Review 2012 Client Ministry for the Environment with funding via the Waste Minimisation Fund WMA Brief Make recommendations to maximise the effectiveness of product stewardship for agricultural chemicals and their containers in New Zealand 3R Role Project manager and facilitator of the Agrichemicals Review Working Group. With experience in stewardship in the agricultural sector, 3R recognised that an industry wide working group was required to identify the scale of the problem and review existing disposal practices