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Friday, March 2nd, 2012 by Admin
As I dragged myself to the office early this friday morning and started looking for something to blog about this week I came across this
 The Plastic Bag Monster Now this made me smile, what a cute, fun way to make people aware of the amount of plastic bags they use!
The slogan refers to the fact that an average shopper consumes, and wastes, 500 plastic bags in a year. Now what I want to know is why no one has come up with a way to recycle these soft plastic bags! And why don’t we at least use a material that can be recyclable, if not reusable? Paper for instance can be recycled. Any while its not an answer, it has to be slightly better than being a bag monster!
So my friday favourite for the week is this photo and bagmonster.com which is all about plastic bag waste and alternatives.
Get your thinking hats on and share what you would do to help cut down on national (or global) consumption of waste
Tags: plastic, recycling, reuse, waste
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Friday, June 24th, 2011 by Admin
 Eating Design from Marije Vogelzang as part of Go Slow Cafe - love the representation of food miles on the board. Source: BlackEiffel Another tiring week of earthquakes but lots of great stuff happening locally and around the world around sustainability to keep the spirits up. Here are a few goodies we found this week:
Have a great waste free weekend and hopefully an less shakey one for Cantabs.
Tags: fashion, food waste, Good Magazine, Green Ribbon Awards, Greening the Rubble, Hot Topic, marije vogelzang, oceans, plastic, Plastiki, Re-nest, recycling, seed cathedral, Woolgro
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Friday, June 3rd, 2011 by Admin
 Les Mees Solar Farm France Source: The Guardian (Boris Horvat/AFP/Getty Images) This is the first list of Friday Favourites for June – lots of interesting links to peruse over Queen’s Birthday weekend:
Tags: Carbon dioxide, electric, emissions, farms, global warming, Good, Nissan Leaf, organic, plastic, recycling, rubbish, solar, spring, waste
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Friday, May 6th, 2011 by Admin
 Source: Re-Nest Here are some great links we have found over the past week on sustainability, waste and plastic:
Have a great waste free weekend.
Tags: Friday favourites, plastic, re-be, Re-nest, recycling, sustainability, waste
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Wednesday, February 16th, 2011 by Admin
 Image found via trademe Why don’t we bring back the glass bottle for milk and other liquid drinks? They can be reused over and over and recycled many times unlike plastic which has potential health issues with leaching chemicals and definite resource issues as plastic comes from a finite resource.
Found this article from TVNZ in 2005 on when glass milk bottles disappeared and this article on the 2010 WWF New Zealand Eco Design Competition winners – a team from Massey University with ‘No Frills, Just Refills’ . A great idea for refill stations in supermarkets.
Don’t forget to check out UnPackit and send in your ideas for best and worst packaging from NZ.
Tags: glass, no frills just refills, packaging, plastic, recycling, unpackit, waste
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Friday, February 11th, 2011 by Admin
 Kate Valley Landfill (SIFT photo) Here are some interesting tid bits we have found in the past week:
Have a great waste free weekend.
Tags: Beehive, Carbon Nation, climate change, Energy, Friday favourites, Good, Hot Topic, plastic, renewable, waste, WWF
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Friday, February 4th, 2011 by Admin
 Source: Free Fashion Challenge The Life of Clothes February is here already! Here are a few of the interesting waste and sustainability links we have found this week for you to enjoy at the end of the first week of February.
- Green Growth Fund initiative announced.
- New Clean Air goal posts.
- The BlueGreens Key note speech from the Hon. Dr. Nick Smith last weekend in Akaroa.
- Public input requested for new National Policy Statement on Biodiversity
Have a great waste free weekend. Are you trying anything new to reduce your waste this weekend?
Tags: Beehive, biodegradable, BlueGreens, compost, Friday favourites, My Plastic Free Life, packaging, PET, plastic, Ted Talks, textiles, waste, Zero Waste Home
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Wednesday, January 19th, 2011 by Admin
 Plasback Scheme Mgr Chris Hartshorne & Agpac GM Chris Dawson Earlier in the week Plasback’s Chris Hartshorne (of the Agpac/Plasback project that SIFT funded – more here and here for the blog post on the TV3 story) announced that they have exported 30 tonnes of plastic resin to Australia and Korea. This plastic resin is made up of the on-farm waste plastics that they have collected, such as used baleage wrap.
Chris Hartshorne stated:
“Our on-farm collection service and the tonnage of waste plastic we collected grew considerably last year and we expect that trend to continue in 2011. More farmers and contractors have joined Plasback, and those who use the recycling scheme are learning how to maximise the efficiency of the collection service and minimise their costs. Plasback is a user pays scheme. There are no expensive levies placed on manufacturers or importers as we place greater emphasis on adding value to the waste stream as this in turn supports the collections from farms”.
“The government of NZ emphasises that product stewardship is the way of the future. The means manufacturers and consumers take responsibility for the full life of the products they use. The Plasback scheme plays an important role in helping the rural sector look after the environment that they and we all depend upon.”
Congratulations to Chris and the Plasback team – this is a great win for the environment and great leap forward for Product Stewardship in New Zealand.
14012011 Agpac Media Release Plasback resin sale
Tags: agpac, farm, funding, Plasback, plastic, Product Stewardship Schemes, projects, SIFT
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Monday, January 17th, 2011 by Admin
In the spirit of New Year resolutions we thought we would give our individual resolutions over the next couple of weeks.
Being the General Manager I’m going first:
 Scanwood utensils My green resolution for 2011 is to continue to reduce my use of plastic in my house (and work), most importantly single use disposable plastics, and move to other forms of packaging or products that have less of an impact on the environment (and potentially my health) and are more durable for the long term (e.g. moving from plastic cooking equipment to wood or ceramic).
We’d love to know yours.
So much so that any green resolutions that are sent through to us will go into the draw to win this great Sulo Talbot compost bin (below) that we were given as a Christmas present from the lovely people at Sulo Talbot. All green resolutions need to be sent through to us either via email (
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) or via our Facebook or Twitter by the 31st of January 2011. Please send us your full contact details and address and your green resolution. The winner will be drawn at random on the 1st of February and notified via email (if you let us know by Twitter or Facebook we will get in touch to get your contact details).***Please note that this competition is only open to New Zealand residents – it’s a rather large to post out of NZ!***
We will also post all green resolutions online anonymously.
This Sulo Talbot compost bin is 31cm wide x 22cm deep x 17cm high.
 Sulo Talbot Compost Bin SIFT image
Tags: 2011, competition, compost bin, green resolution, plastic, SIFT, Sulo Talbot
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Friday, January 14th, 2011 by Admin
 Wallpapered Rubbins Bins from Re-Nest At the close of another week here are some of the cool/interesting things we have found from around the world:
Have a great waste free weekend.
Tags: books, camp, clothing, eco-index, go green games, love notes, planet green, plastic, Recycled, reduce
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