We’re on our way! We now are a not for profit charitable trust, with full charitable status pending. The Zero Waste Expo Aotearoa Trust. It’s a bit of a mouthful; I’m wondering how ZWEAT would sound??Now it’s time to get onto creating some events to help people with their waste …
So we’re already churning through December. Our children are exhausted and the schools are closing, Christmas parties are raging and Summer is coming. How can you tell? The Pohutakawa are flowering! We here at Zero Waste Expo Aotearoa have been busy with ‘stuff’ – you know the kind. Now it’s …
According to stuff.co.nz this country’s old plastic bags are about to find new life as fence posts. This is great news, and the sort of thing that many of us have been discussing and debating since we were made aware of the cache of soft plastics that was growing by …
There’s a video that has popped up online with a brief discussion about how a company called Carbon Engineering in Vancouver, B.C. has developed a method to make fuel (almost) out of thin air. That’s not the full truth, of course, but for those of us with limited time/attention span it’s …
I love a good cup of tea. I can even say that I’ve become a bit of a tea snob. I can’t bear the idea of some grey nondescript brew that leaves the mouth dry and if we don’t (generally) have our breakfast all day long why should we have …
We popped along to the Zero Waste Workshops and Market Day at Riverhead Citizens Hall on Sunday ,and had a chance to talk to the organiser and some stallholders. Well done to the Riverhead Citizens Hall for holding the event! I know the amount of work involved in putting together an event like this …
No more plastic bags, so what do we do with doggy doo? Like many others, I re-use the “single-use” plastic bags for many other jobs, such as carrying things to work, collecting fruit from the garden, lining the kitchen bin, and picking up dog waste, but with the bags being …
We have had our say on the Ministry for the Environment’s Proposed mandatory phase out of single-use plastic shopping bags. See what they have to say about it here.The consultation process is open.Maybe you would like to have your say as well?
We have a ‘why’ when it comes to reducing our waste footprint, now we need a ‘how’. I have noticed that while a lot of people are keen to work towards reducing their waste footprint they generally don’t know where to begin. The image of a single, small jar of …
