So there have been some site visits around the country and we are now getting to the point of booking venues. This is getting very real indeed… At the moment we have these venues and dates pencilled in: Christchurch: Addington Racecourse, 02 Feb 2020 Wellington: Harbourside Function Centre , 04 …
Over the next few weeks we will be travelling around the country to visit cities for potential expos. This is getting super exciting!The City councils involved are very excited to host the expos so there will be meetings to discuss how best to work together, and venue visits to decide …
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 …
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 …
