The amount of generation of main organic wastes
| Organic wastes | 
Kinds of organic wastes | 
Amount | 
Year | 
| Agriculture | 
Rice straw | 
Nil | 
 | 
| Wheat straw | 
unknown | 
 | 
| Chaff  | 
unknown | 
 | 
| Vinyard waste | 
unknown | 
 | 
| Subtotal  | 
7,144 | 
 | 
| Stock farming | 
Animal manure | 
200 million tonnes | 
2003 | 
| Stock residue | 
unknown | 
 | 
| Subtotal  | 
200 million tonnes | 
 | 
| Forestry | 
Bark | 
125,000 tonnes | 
2002 | 
| Sawdust | 
2 million tonnes | 
 | 
| Chip of wood | 
included with sawdust | 
 | 
| Subtotal  | 
2.1 million tonnes | 
2002 | 
| Food processing | 
Animals and plants residue | 
unknown | 
 | 
| Sludge | 
unknown | 
 | 
| Subtotal  | 
 | 
 | 
| Construction | 
Construction wood | 
220,000 tonnes | 
2002 | 
| Garbage | 
House hold and office  | 
416,000 tonnes | 
 | 
| Grass and wood | 
Wood | 
included in construction wood | 
 | 
| Sludges | 
Sewage sludge | 
292,000 tonnes | 
 | 
| Nightsoil | 
none collected | 
 | 
| Johkaso sludge | 
 | 
 | 
| Rural community sludge | 
none collected | 
 | 
| Subtotal  | 
 | 
 | 
| Total | 
 | 
292,000 tonnes | 
 | 
 
Referent   	●http://www.crop.cri.nz/psp/broadshe/compost.htm