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Good health an added benefit for rubbish-free couple
A couple who spent a year living virtually rubbish-free found an added benefit to their new lifestyle - better health.
Matthew Luxon and Waveney Warth challenged themselves with producing no more than one bag’s worth of rubbish from February 2008 to 2009 and kept a record of their experiences in a blog.
Their new way of life [...]
“Pass the Potatoes Please…”
Potato plates are serving up to be the answer in managing the amount of waste produced at Auckland festivals.
The biodegradable potato plates helped to achieve 91% diversion from waste being taken to landfill at the Waitangi Day concert at Okahu Bay in Auckland. Approximately 25,000 people attended the celebration.
New Zealand company Potatopak has also supplied [...]
Recycling bins trial for central Auckland
A lack of recycling bins in central Auckland is soon to be resolved with the city council set to trial a recycling programme next month.
Rennae Corner, Auckland City’s manager of environment infrastructure, says the three-month trial will involve installing 20 Love NZ recycling bins in “high traffic areas” around the city.
“We are focusing on [...]
Coffee beans give gardeners a second hit
A daily fix of coffee is helping many Auckland cafe customers improve their gardens - and minimise coffee guilt.
Cafes of all sizes, from Parnell’s boutique Rosehip Café to large franchise corporations like Esquires and Starbucks, are giving their used coffee grinds to customers for use in their gardens.
Cafes and customers alike have taken initiative by [...]
Producers take green approach to film making
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When video producers Jeff Smith and Jude Folkard were given used cameras and old TV tape, they decided to turn trash into treasure by recording over the tapes with environmental stories.
The stories are then put on www.deepgreen.org, a website devoted to creating environmentally sustainable communities.
Folkard describes their unpaid work on the site as part of [...]
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