Hon DAVID PARKER: Standardising kerbside recycling will reduce confusion and help businesses design packaging that is recyclable anywhere in New Zealand. This will make it simpler and easier for people to recycle. Councils and their contractors have asked for these improvements. Food scraps make up more than a third of a typical household's rubbish each week, and rotting waste overall accounts for about 9 percent of New Zealand's biogenic methane emissions. I'm advised that landfill gas capture is unable to meet the methane reduction targets recommended by the climate commission. Accordingly, separating food scraps for collection is necessary to reduce those emissions and return the nutrients to the soil.