15/04/2026
Turning Food Waste into Purpose in Queenstown.
Our Queenstown hotels proudly joined the Waste to Wilderness Programme, a future-focused initiative transforming food waste into meaningful environmental outcomes. Through this programme, our food waste is diverted from landfill, supporting regenerative solutions that help nourish the environment we are privileged to operate in. Each of our three Queenstown hotels has access to data, enabling us to track our impact.
Ensuring hotel food waste doesn’t end up in landfill has many benefits. For example, our three hotels separated over two thousand kilograms of food waste over the past six months that would otherwise have been buried in landfill. This creates methane, a greenhouse gas that worsens climate change; instead, this waste is turned into compost for community gardens and used to regenerate native forests.
Across our wider hotel group, food waste is managed through a range of solutions, including on-site worm farms, feeding local piggeries, commercial composting, and eco-gas generation—ensuring thoughtful hospitality extends beyond the guest experience and into the communities and environments we serve.
The Waste to Wilderness Programme has gained national and international recognition, with Destination Queenstown hosting international media at the site and showcasing the initiative at global trade shows and exhibitions.
This collaboration is one way Millennium Hotels and Resorts is helping shape a more sustainable future for hospitality.
Thank you to Seven Sharp for the feature.
