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
Climate Action HB workshop success highlights sustainability focus
The first Climate Action Hawke’s Bay workshop, aimed at helping businesses begin their sustainability journeys, has gained overwhelmingly positive feedback, with more planned. The workshop was hosted by sustainability experts 3R Group on August 27 and 31 in Napier, with 23 organisations attending. These ranged in size from SME’s to large corporates and represented a […]
Dismantle a child car seat – how hard can it be?
by Toni Bye, SeatSmart Programme Manager The day ended with defeat. No screwdriver, hammer, saw or even angle grinder could help us dismantle the final part of this child car seat for recycling. What its function was exactly I couldn’t tell you – only that it seemed to take batteries. Maybe it was intended to […]
