The home of product stewardship
We design and develop product stewardship programmes for industry and business. Product stewardship allows people and business to take responsibility for the products they make and sell through their lifecycle, and particularly at the end of their useful life, so that these products are recycled, reused, repurposed or properly disposed of.
Whether voluntary or regulated, we are your product stewardship partner. Talk to us.
3R Group – combining imagination and science to repurpose waste
Stewardship solutions
Product stewardship lets each party in a products’ life cycle contribute to the effective recycling or disposal of the product and its packaging, as well as looking back up the supply chain to how a product is designed, manufactured and sold.
Our programmes
From tyres to refrigerants, agrichemicals to paint, farm plastics to child car seats, we’ve been at the forefront of product stewardship development in New Zealand since 2004. Check out our work to find out more.
Solutions for your business
Wherever you are on your sustainability journey, 3R will be your partner. Whether it’s waste audits, resource recovery, climate change action, product stewardship or environmental compliance and certification. We can help.
ChemCollect
We provide a comprehensive chemical collection and disposal service for a wide range of industries.
Have you got unwanted chemicals that need our expertise?
Latest news & updates
Can we climb the sustainability ladder?
The seventh in a series written for NZ Food Technology. By Natalie Martin, 3R Group Materials Innovation Manager We all know the well-used mantra of ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’, where the three actions are often referred to as equal partners in our bid to reduce environmental harm. However, while recycling is something of an ambulance at […]
Design – the genesis of a circular economy
By Dominic Salmon, 3R Group Business Development – Sustainable Solutions I’ll hazard a guess that the last time a kettle, toaster or other electrical appliance in your house broke, you thought to yourself this should be repairable. However, I’m fairly sure you couldn’t easily get it repaired or the repair was going to cost the […]
