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Friday, July 16th, 2010 by Admin
 Bicycles for Recycling at Resource Recycling (ChCh) These weeks are flying by – soon we will be talking about how to have a waste free Christmas and summer holiday and feeling the heat rather than the cold! But, in the meantime here are some cheery mid-Winter links for your Friday.
- How to make your own magazine files – genius from Re-Nest.
- A treehugger article by Fred Pearce on the growing problem of consumption not population here.
- A possible solution to textiles waste from NYC here.
- Ideas for recycling old linen here.
- Green Investment Bank proposed for the UK reported by the Guardian here.
- New Waste Facilities Survey from the MfE here.
Have a Waste Free Weekend.
Tags: consumption, diverting waste from landfill, Friday favourites, green investment, landfill, linen, Re-nest, recycling, SIFT, the Guardian, Tree Hugger, waste
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Friday, July 9th, 2010 by Admin
 Levis Denim Insulation Source: Cool Hunting Here is the round up of favourite/interesting links we have found this week:
Have a lovely waste free weekend.
Tags: Fake Plastic Fish, Friday favourites, green buses, Green Party, Hungry Planet, landfill, Levis, plastic, recycling, Rubbish Free, SIFT, Time, UNTHA, Westpac
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Friday, July 2nd, 2010 by Admin
 Source: Flickr promqu33n photostream Phew! What a week! Project meetings, strategic planning, new enquiries…All go! But as always we still kept a look out for the waste and sustainability links that could be interesting for our blog readers. Here are this week’s Friday Favourites:
- I watched the No Impact Man movie this week, finally and it was excellent. Inspired me to do a lot more no impact living especially when it comes to waste. You can read Colin Beavan (No Impact Man)’s blog here or get inspired and take action here and watch a clip from the movie here.
- 21 Councils in New South Wales, Australia have formed an alliance to halve the amount of waste going to the Albury Waste Management Centre in Southern NSW as they are running out of room. More here.
- Latest tonnage statistics from the MfE on waste to landfill here.
- Have you heard of the Pacific Gyre and all of the plastic waste circulating around it – Beth from Fake Plastic Fish blogs about why we can’t clean it up here.
- Celsius.co.nz posted a really informative video on what happens when BP spills….coffee!
- Want to know what is happening in New Zealand’s energy sector for the past quarter (and the carbon emissions associated with that)? Check out the lastest NZ Energy Quarterly from the MED.
- How to make a house out of an aeroplane here from Re-Nest.
- Another great find from Re-Nest - Reclaimed and upcycled Apple Gadget chargers – love the typewriter.
- National Geographic’s Human Footprint movie – a look at consuming from birth to death and how much we consume. Info here and short clip here.
And if you haven’t already checked it out visit Waveney Warth and Matthew Luxon’s new Rubbish Free website for some great tips and resources.
Have a lovely Waste Free Weekend (WFW)!
Tags: BP spill, Celsius, Energy, Friday favourites, Human Footprint, landfill, MED, mfe, No Impact Man, plane, Re-nest, Rubbish Free, SIFT, waste
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Friday, June 11th, 2010 by Admin
 We visited the CCC2 Materials Recovery Facility on Tuesday - here's a sneek peek. More to come. Here is this week’s round up of what of the waste, sustainability goodies we have come across:
Hope you have a low impact weekend!
Tags: Bloombery, CCC2, Environmental Protection Authority, Friday favourites, Good Magazine, mfe, Re-nest, recycling, SIFT, waste
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Friday, June 4th, 2010 by Admin
 Great photo from Artist Steven Emmanuel's Everything & Nothing It is a glorious sunny winter’s day today. Full frost this morning and clear blue skies so that you can see the mountains with all the snow! Off to visit Becon this afternoon but thought I would quickly post the links of favourites we have found this week:
Have a great long weekend.
Tags: Friday favourites, paper, plastic, recycling, urban pantry, waste
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Friday, May 28th, 2010 by Admin
 Waimakaririr River Source: Teara.govt.nz A productive (but rainy) week this week. As well as progressing a number of projects SIFT also spent some time meeting a some more people who work with waste and waste minimisation in Christchurch and Canterbury. Notably I met with the Solid Waste Asset Manager, Kitty Waghorn, from the Waimakariri District Council and learnt all about the waste systems in place for that district. They have two transfer stations – Southbrook and Oxford and have big plans for a new Resource Recovery Park at the Southbrook station as well as expanding into organics (they promote the use of home composting and you can pick up an EM Bokashi system from Waimakariri District Council Service Centre) and providing a recycling solution for the rural residents of the district. Southbrook transfer station includes a Resell shed which they are also looking to expand in order to reduce the amount of rubbish that is sent to Kate Valley Landfill. They will also be launching a Hazardous Waste drop off point in July. And the general outlook for waste reduction in this district is positive with an increase in the amount of recyclables being collected and a reduction in rubbish.
You can find more information on Waste and Recycling for the Waimakariri District here.
Here are the interesting links for this week:
Tags: Fake Plastic Fish, Friday favourites, glass, Greenpeace, landfill, links, PattersonEnvironmental, recycling, rubbish, Waimakariri District Council, waste
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Friday, May 14th, 2010 by Admin
 Thomas Thwaites British Design Student takes apart a toaster via Re-Nest Another working week is drawing to an end and since Monday we have come up with some great links from around the global that show that there are many people who are thinking and living sustainably. Our favourite is the pug – a great way to make learning about what you can do to reduce your environmental impact fun and enjoyable.
- Reuse old fabric to make boutonnieres for a special occasion or special gift (from DesignMom).
- Green Pug Recycles and few more plastic-free life tips from Beth on FakePlasticFish.
- ‘Family Stuff’ by Huang Qingjun and Ma Hongjie is a series of photographic portraits showing the stuff that rural Chinese families possess. Lovely photos and also makes you think about what it would look like if you pulled all your belongings and stuff out to the front of the house and then took a picture – would it fit?!
- A new Australian Fibre & Textile Environmental and Recycling Cooperative Research Centre (AFTER-CRC) is being established by the Techinical Textiles and Nonwoven association to start to reduce the amount of textiles that are going to Australian landfills. With over 1 million tonnes of fibrous wastes going to landfill in Australia each year this new organisation is a great first step in helping to solve the problem. Read more here.
- Wondered what you could do with chopsticks when you had finished eating your sushi with them? Well, here are 10 great ideas.
- Get creative with your closet and learn how to recycle an old t-shirt into an apron here.
- And if you have a lot of rubber bands lying around (where do they come from?!) here are some ideas on how to recycle them.
- Using old hair to help clean up the Gulf oil spill – from Re-nest.
- The making of a toaster here and here.
Enjoy your weekend.
 Thomas Thwaites then tried to make his own toaster via Re-Nest
Tags: chopsticks, Friday favourites, landfill, links, oil spill, recycling, toaster, waste
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Friday, April 30th, 2010 by Admin
 Baled Paper - Copyright - SIFT What a whirlwind week! We were at the WasteMinz conference earlier in the week and then spent yesterday in catch up mode. So, for today we have few cool things we have found that might be of interest and then next week there will be a bit of a run down on the conference and what we learned.
The most important thing learnt during the two days (it was a mix of Behaviour Change workshops and workshops on waste related issues) is that we need to act sustainably everyday – small actions will add up to make a big impact.
Here are the Friday Favourites:
- The toilet paper issue – how far will you go to reduce your paper waste – all the way to cloths?
- How about eating paper with no calories? As long as it is recycled!
- The biodegradable pen – love it!
- A new guide to buying sustainable paper for your office here launched recently by the NZ Business Council for Sustainable Development and the Government.
- A better recycling campaign was also launched this week by the Community Recycling Network (Sue Coutts presented a very informative presentation at the WasteMinz workshop about the launch and why we need to implement more effective and efficient recycling systems with less contamination and to increase onshore recycling). You read see more of what they do here.
- And finally, Envirocomp who compost nappies are still on a roll composting 15,000 nappies a day and looking to expand - more here.
Tags: behaviour change, Friday favourites, paper, recycling, Waste Management, WasteMinz
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Friday, April 23rd, 2010 by Admin
 Bales of cans for recycling - Photo copyright SIFT. Happy Friday. The sun is shining on a really warm Autumn day and we are busy organising new projects and checking up on how current projects are progressing. Next Tuesday and Wednesday we will be attending the WasteMinz Workshops in Auckland so we will be a little quiet on the blog front for a few days but will return with lots of stories, photos and WasteMinz goodness.
In the meantime here are a few waste related goodies to make your Friday.
Have a great weekend.
Tags: CFL, Christchurch City Council, Earth Day, Friday favourites, links, recycling, WasteMinz
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Thursday, March 11th, 2010 by Admin
 Sayaka Kajita Ganz via Re-Nest Friday has come ’round again super fast and there have been some excellent links come through over the past week.
We still love Re-Nest – if you haven’t checked them out definitely go over and have a look – the biodegradable toothbrush and greening your dental hygiene, new style glass bottles from Lifefactory, a gorgeous recycled glass decanter and the amazing cutlery sculptures that have so much movement ( how many cutlery items get landfilled each year we wonder?).
Although some of the products found by Re-nest can’t be shipped all the way down here to NZ it is good to see that the options do exist and one day…we might have access to more of those options either locally or globally made.
There is also:
Have a wonderful (and hopefully warm!) weekend with minimal waste.
Tags: BBC, Friday favourites, jumbo jet, landfill, renest, story of stuff, urban mining, waste
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