Agrecovery Rural Recycling

Agrecovery was established in 2006 to address persistent 'on farm' waste issues.

Today Agrecovery provides New Zealand farmers and growers with nationwide programmes for container recycling, drum recovery, and the collection of unwanted or expired chemicals.

Agrecovery, a not-for-profit charitable trust, is a product stewardship scheme, one of a worldwide network of similar national schemes affiliated to CropLife International’s standards.

The brand owners that distribute agrichemical, animal health and dairy hygiene products into the New Zealand market take responsibility for the disposal of these products and their packaging at the end of their useful life.

They do this by paying the Agrecovery Foundation fees and levies to cover programme costs. This enables free access to programme users.

Agrecovery Foundation Trustees are accountable for the strategic direction of Agrecovery and represent key areas of the primary sector: Agcarm, DairyNZ, Federated Farmers, Horticulture New Zealand, Rural Contractors New Zealand, Waikato Regional Council for local government, and an elected nominee of distributors of agrichemicals and over-the-counter animal health products.

Daily operational aspects of the programme are now managed by the Agrecovery Foundation, with EnviroNZ also undertaking collections throughout New Zealand as our new contractor. These changes were effective from the 1st of July 2017.

Agrecovery Containers and Chemicals are also accredited Product Stewardship Schemes under the Waste Minimisation Act 2008.