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Friday, April 15th, 2011 by Admin
 Hagley Park Christchurch Autumn via Gardenz Here are few interesting links we have come across recently:
Have a great waste free weekend.
Tags: earth hour, electricity, Friday favourites, Good, GreenerLiving, links, mfe, WMF, Youtube
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Friday, December 10th, 2010 by Admin
 Source: Re-Nest Green Bough eco Friendly plywood Christmas Tree Just had one of those great meetings where you know that with the right people real change for more sustainable (less wasteful) world can occur. Great way to end the week!
Here are our favourite links from around the world and home:
In case you had not already seen on our website, SIFT has released the 2009/10 Annual Report. If you would like to know what we have been up to in the past year, have a read and download it here.
• Recycling and the life of a lip-stick tube
• Keep excessive e-mail printers at bay!
• Eco-friendly handmade Christmas decorations
• Reusable fabric gift-wrap
• Time to have an office clear out? NZ Post’s exciting Recyle Centre
• Air New Zealand’s chronicle of New Zealand’s ecological history
• Thrifty package wrapping
Have a fantastic waste free weekend.
Tags: Air New Zealand, Annual Report, Christmas, email, Friday favourites, links, NZ Post, reusable, SIFT, wrapping, WWF
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Friday, December 3rd, 2010 by Admin
 Sail Christmas Stockings via ReNest Here are our favourites for this Friday. Happy reading.
All things Christmas:
o Some words to keep you environmentally friendly where possible this Christmas from Zen Habits
o Eco-friendly Christmas stockings.
o Inspirational ideas on how to create recycled gift bows and wreaths
National:
o Something to know about if you’re planning a trip to the local landfill!
o Exciting prospects for use of New Zealand landfill gas emissions
o Engaging consumers on sustainability, proving difficult for businesses from Celsias
International:
o 2.6 billion people lack access to adequate sanitation. Some innovative MIT students have designed a programme which, if successful, will process sanitary waste in the slums of Kenya into energy! Follow their journey
o The piling of rubbish in Naples.
Have a great waste free weekend.
Tags: Celsias, Christmas, emissions, Energy, Friday favourites, Good, landfill, links, naples, sustainability
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Friday, August 13th, 2010 by Admin
 SIFT Vision Poster on the wall at our After 5 Drinks and Nibbles event on Tuesday
Welcome to the end of another working week. We met some potential new projects, had a bit of an After 5 drinks and nibbles event for few key people at our offices, met with current projects to get updates and generally continued to do what we do.
On the way we also found some interesting tid bits that you might be interested in perusing. Here are this week’s Friday Favourites:
- A great article here from Nick Potter on his affair with the word “sustainability” – what will be the new words? You can see more of what Nick Potter does on his website Re-Be.
- A dining room made from recycled plastic bottles that floats – a unique eating experience here.
- Another great link from the team at Re-Nest who found an article in a recent Martha Stewart Living magazine about using real peanuts for packing (definitely better than styrofoam “peanuts”).
- The latest Environmental Indicators Quarterly from the Ministry for the Environment here (pdf).
- A great little tutorial on how to make reusable sandwich bags – (no velcro, glue, and only minimal sewing) – great idea here.
- A move in the US to replace ornamental gardens with food producing gardens here.
- More disrespect for and damage to the environment – will the fine work? More here.
- The kitchen of the future – bringing the vege garden inside – more here.
- The fridge that grows food not just stores it here.
Have a great waste free weekend.
Tags: bags, damage, disrespect, environment, Friday favourites, future, kitchen, links, Martha, mfe, Nick Potter, plastic, Re-nest, Recycled, reusable
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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 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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