Xtreme Waste

Xtreme Zero Waste is a non-profit organisation dedicated to recycling and based in the town of Raglan, New Zealand.

[2] According to its mission statement, its goal is to create a waste management system for the Raglan/Whaingaroa community in which none of the trash would be stored in landfills.

[6] The organisation was founded in 2000, after Raglan's landfill closed and the town decided to find an alternative to transporting all its waste to a tip in the Waikato.

[9] The grant was announced in November 2010 by Nick Smith, New Zealand's Minister for the Environment[8] and the trial started in 2012 with 100 houses in Raglan West.

[10] In 2015 the food waste collection was included in a new 5-year contract, with a provision to move the funding to a targeted rate.