Waitemata Waste Away
We began as Grey Lynn Waste Away but then expanded to projects in all of Waitemata, particularly in Auckland's City Centre.
Waitemata 2030 Waste Away
Community volunteers committed to promoting and taking action to reduce waste to landfill in Waitemata.
Sone of Waste Away’s actions:
- Many local E-Waste drop-off collection starting in 2009 in Newmarket, Parnell, City Centre, Ponsonby and Grey Lynn
- Food Scraps Rollout Community Education with Auckland Council
- Setting up café/restaurant food waste diversion from landfill by composting/worm farm onsite and a collection/composting system. Holding Bokashi bucket demonstrations at a local cafe.
- Weekly education stall at the Grey Lynn Farmers market since 2009, once a month at the Parnell Farmers Market since April 2011, and each year at the Grey Lynn Park Festival since 2009.
- Provision of street-side recycling facilities and an education stall at the West Lynn & Grey Lynn Street Parties in 2010 and 2011 and at Grey Lynn's Rugby World Cup Adopt a team events
- Collection of 6 x 240L wheelie bins full of glass and aluminium cans from the Grey Lynn Park Festival with the support of Visy.
- Provision of a household battery collection at the weekly Grey Lynn Farmers Market and the promotion of rechargeable battery use.
Waste Away
Follow the journey of the many waste projects by our waste groups.
Unpackit Roadshow of Joy comes to Grey Lynn
The Unpackit crew will be at the Grey Lynn Market on Sunday 17th April, encouraging people to have their say in the 2011 Unpackit Packaging Awards. The crew will be performing skits from their travelling roadshow which includes chip-pack juggling, wrapper rapping and bananas on stilts who break free from their packaging. The 16 finalists…
Read MoreGrey Lynn welcomes Wanaka Wastebusters
Check out the news from Wanaka Wastebusters – Competition, wew website www.unpackit.org.nz and Roadshow coming to Grey Lynn Demystifying packaging Choices – Competition Time Its almost everywhere you look, its on almost everything you buy, look at the packaging, we hear you cry! Is it good? Is it bad? Is it the best you have…
Read MoreGrey Lynn picked for packaging waste project
Media Release from Wanaka Waste Busters 5 November 2010 Grey Lynn has been chosen as one of five focus towns for a project about packaging waste. Wanaka Wastebusters is coordinating the Demystifying Packaging Choices project, which was launched in Wellington today. Colinda van der Sluis said that the Grey Lynn 2030 Waste Away focus group…
Read MoreGrey Lynn 2030 Monthly Community MeetingL May 2010
S#!T happens – deal with it! This month the Waste Away group present an informative and entertaining meeting of ideas, tips and practical advice on dealing with waste. Guest Presenters Sunshine Yates “Household Waste & Recycling in Auckland City” Dorte Wray “Towards Zero Waste – Food Waste” With updates from the Wasters on a range…
Read MoreWellington New World to drop plastic bag charge
After just one month of introducing a 5 cent charge for plastic bags Foodstuffs have announced a 60% reduction in plastic bag numbers compared to the same time last year. In the same week both Wellington and Auckland supermarkets, despite the success, backed down on the charge in response to customer feedback. In the same…
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How Auckland Can Reduce its Waste – Warren Snow
Update: Sadly Warren passed away in 2022. ____________________– Warren Snow of Envision will be speaking at the Grey Lynn 2030 meeting. Warren wants to propose a new vision for reducing waste in Auckland. This will be partly based on a report Envision did in 2005 entitled “Reclaiming Auckland’s Resources” That report proposed a waste strategy…
Read MoreWaste Away Group Minutes
The Waste Away meeting minutes from 4th April are now posted here Thanks to all of you who have put time and energy into the group, taking it forward to make a difference in our community. Our next meeting is Monday 4th May, 7.30pm, at the office of Waste Not Consulting Ltd, Williamson Ave, Grey…
Read MoreWaste Away Event
Thank you to all the community who supported the Grey Lynn 2030: Waste Away group through the E-Waste Action day held at the Woolworths Grey Lynn carpark on Saturday 21st March. The event was a great success. An estimated 12-16 tonnes of e-Waste was collected! Lynn Green says, “We are so happy with the way…
Read MoreeWaste Action
Group powers up for e-waste day WASTE NOT, WANT NOT: Grey Lynn 2030 members Kim Maree and Lynn Green are organising an e-waste action day that will see old computer equipment collected for recycling rather than being dumped in landfills. Computer equipment can be dropped off at the Woolworths carpark on Richmond Rd between…
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