Proposed product stewardship regulations for agrichemicals, their containers, and farm plastics

Closed 1 Jun 2025

Opened 31 Mar 2025

Overview

The Government is seeking feedback on proposed regulations to enable a national take-back and recycling scheme for agrichemicals, their containers, and farm plastics. 

Discarded policy options

This document gives an overview of the policy options that were considered but ultimately discarded. 

Webinars

We hosted two public webinars which provided an overview of the new farm plastics product stewardship scheme and the regulatory proposals being consulted on.

Watch the webinar on YouTube

What happens next

This consultation closed on 1 June 2025.

When the consultation period has ended, we will consider the feedback, and announce decisions on the regulations for the in-scope products.

If you have any further questions, please email rps@mfe.govt.nz.