Outrageous Fortune star Robyn Malcolm, who made an outspoken attack on John Key's record, is to front an Auckland Council campaign to encourage recycling.
Council spokesman Glyn Walters said Malcolm, who MC'ed the Greens Party's election campaign opening, would be the face of the draft Waste Management and Minimisation Plan.
Malcolm on Sunday criticised the Prime Minister and his party for having an "unshakeable and abiding love of fossil fuels".
She said Mr Key "seems to be more interested in talking about his cats on the radio, being seen at the rugby and getting on the cover of the Woman's Weekly" than leading the country into the 21st century. She said the party and the PM had "an inability to follow through any promises of any kind".
The council plan will promote household user-pays rubbish and recycling across Auckland, among other things, with a public consultation to be launched around the time of the election. Auckland councillor Cameron Brewer wants Malcolm axed, saying she is "too partisan" to front the plan, and will "further paint the council into a left-wing political corner".