Waste
Plastic bag free Auckland
Colinda Rowe, Chair of Grey Lynn 2030 spoke to the Plastic Bag Free New Zealand Auckland meeting on 21 August. The meeting was organised by Denise Roche, MP to highlight problems posed by single-use plastic bags and to announce an upcoming community coalition to reduce and ultimately phase out their use. Here is Colinda’s presentation: Hi, my…
Read MoreWestern Springs College Waste Minimisation Project
Western Springs College sends around 648kg of waste to landfill every week! Around 70% of this waste can be diverted through composting or recycling? Thanks to the $55 000 grant received from the Waste Minimisation Fund, administered by the Ministry for the Environment, we are well on track to achieving this goal. The grant…
Read MoreWestern Springs College – Waste Minimisation Project
In March 2011 Western Springs College submitted an application for funding to the Waste Minimisation Fund, which is administered by the Ministry for the Environment. After several months of negotiations, moving through the various stages of the application process, we were awarded $55 224 toward our waste minimisation project costs of $61 360! The overall aim of the project…
Read MoreConservation Week: Reuse to Reduce Market
History In partnership with Grey Lynn 2030 Waste Away, and as part of Conservation Week, Auckland Zoo held a Reuse to Reduce Market. Conservation Week theme in 2014 was ‘discover the world where you live’ and the market’s aim was to get people thinking and looking at ways to help keep the world on our doorstep…
Read MoreUpdate on the campaign to ban single use plastic bags in Auckland
As California moves to ban single use plastic bags and the threat of plastic in our oceans grows greater the campaign in Auckland builds momentum. Grey Lynn 2030 Waste Away is supporting Steph Borelle’s petition to ban plastic bags. Last week she presented to the public forum of the Environment, Climate Change and Natural Heritage Committee. In…
Read MoreLook who’s signed up for Plastic Bag Free Day!
Both Countdown supermarkets in Grey Lynn are supporting Waste Away’s Plastic Free July initiative as well as many of the other fantastic retailers in Grey Lynn – NO plastic bags on 31st July …. and if you feel truly inspired, try cutting them out of your life altogether!! Other retailers to sign up include: Farmville…
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