Our mission to “send junk to a better place” lies at the heart of everything Junk Run does –we divert at least 70% of everything we collect from landfill. No other waste management company in New Zealand even comes close. We do everything we can to reuse, repurpose and recycle. For us, it’s a calling.
Junk reallocation & recycling
A key part of our work involves hand-sorting and separating all unwanted inorganic items on site. This ensures that everything is redirected to the most suitable recovery facility or recipient. We never stop trying until we find a home for anything that can be re-used, repurposed or recycled. It’s easy for any company to make claims about how green they are. By contrast, our comprehensive and transparent reporting means Junk Run can prove it.
Working with partners
Dealing with unwanted items and junk sustainably gives us the opportunity to not only help the environment, but also to contribute to communities. That is why we gift items that we collect to charities, community groups and social enterprises. Our long term strategic partnerships with not-for-profit organisations means they can count on us to deliver goods that are both useful and valuable to them.
OUR REALLOCATION PARTNERS
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Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for humanity and Junk Run have a unique partnership and have been working together for many years. Habitat provides a wonderful home building and renovation service to those desperately in need of appropriate shelter. We collect a wide range of building materials, such as cabinetry, fixtures and fittings. Including brand new materials from building fit outs and new builds. Some of what we collect goes into building activities undertaken by the habitat team, such as running repairs and renovations for those in need of help. As well as that we deliver household furniture and good cross-purpose items from corporate office clear outs like tables and chairs, kitchen appliances, sofas and just about any junk that can be used again to wherever they are needed. These items all go towards raising funds through Habitat’s Restore network that support their charitable activities.
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Auckland Council
Auckland Council manages all our residential kerbside rubbish and recycling collections in Auckland. They also run and manage a number of community recycling centres and the annual free inorganic rubbish collection from every property across the City. In addition, the Council manages the clean-up and prosecution of those who illegally dump waste or litter and helps to control pollution.
To transport waste legally around Auckland as a commercial waste removal or demolition contractor requires a Waste License from Auckland Council. Junk Run is fully licensed and has been every year since 2005.
Auckland Council is also working hard with Central Government and has a vision that Auckland will be waste free by 2040, something Junk Run supports! Our business focuses on the waste hierarchy which places reduction, reuse and recycling above landfill.
Junk Run has also been the recipient of numerous Waste Minimisation grants from Auckland Council to help fund the work we do to reduce waste going to landfill.
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Hospice New Zealand
Hospices provide palliative care to Whanau in our local communities – all over NZ. As well as the hospital style medical care- they also provide a range of wonderful services free of charge. Programs like music therapy, grief counselling, spiritual care, and physiotherapy, plus many other services – even getting your life story documented with a biographer!
Hospices across the country operate over 125 stores, selling quality second-hand goods to fund the cost of providing all these services and care, free of charge, to their local communities.
Each hospice shop is managed and run by its local hospice service. Here in Auckland, there are 6 different hospice services, each with their own network of second-hand shops. Junk Run supports the work of Hospice by regularly delivering high quality second-hand goods to many of their shops and distribution centres.
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Sustainable Business Network
Established in 2002, the Sustainable Business Network (SBN) is New Zealand’s largest, longest-standing sustainable business organisation.
SBN is a network of like-minded businesses that are focussed on seeing improvements and system change in the areas of climate, waste and nature.
SBN helps to transform leading sustainable business ideas into action around Aotearoa.
Junk Run has been a proud and very active member of SBN for many years, and we proudly work alongside hundreds of other progressive organisations and people that collectively invest in and act on system change.
Junk Run has also been recognised as a finalist and winner in numerous Sustainable Business Network category awards over the years. We exist for environmental and socially responsible outcomes over profit and we are proud to work alongside SBN.
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Abilities Group
Abilities Group is a not for profit, incorporated society set up and dedicated to enriching the lives of adults with mental and physical disabilities through meaningful work. Abilities Group run a recycling centre that employs over 120 adults and 30 highly trained dedicated support staff.
Based on the North Shore, we have worked with them since 2005.
Abilities’ work involves resource recovery and recycling of paper and cardboard, metals, plastics, batteries, polystyrene and waste electronic components. They also refurbish and reuse electronic equipment.
Abilities holds relevant “Basel Permits” issued by the Ministry for the Environment, to enable export of residual hazardous components for recycling at approved facilities overseas, which is why we have had a strong collaborative relationship for so long.
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SPCA
SPCA is well known charity dedicated for helping thousands of sick, injured, abandoned and abused animals every year. In addition SPCA works very hard to bring justice to those who have failed these innocent animals. At dedicated animal centres all over NZ SPCA provide emergency veterinary treatment, and give shelter to animals in distress and re-home suitable animals whenever possible.
All of this wonderful work comes at great cost, and the SPCA have a number of fundraising activities including over 70 op shops located throughout New Zealand. These shops sell a wide range of donated items, including good quality second hand clothing, jewellery, homeware, kitchenware, linen, toys, furniture, and lots of things for your fur babies.
Junk Run works to donate good quality items to many local SPCA shops. In addition, we regularly provide old towels and bed linen to the Mangere animal shelter be used for rescue animal bedding while animals are housed at the emergency treatment centre. Clean bedding provides warmth and comfort for these sick, abused, and neglected animals while they recover and find their forever homes. Here at Junk Run we are all batty about our various cats and dogs and we are all proud to be able to support the great work SPCA does.