Agrecovery are holding the ‘Rinse Return Rewards$’ competitionthrough February and March offering you the chance to win one of ten $500 vouchers to spend with a rural supplier. Prizes will be drawn on 26 April 2013. So get in quick and recycle!
All you have to do is recycle your eligible plastic containers with Agrecovery at one of their 70 collection sites nationwide. Containers must be triple rinsed, be 60 litres or under and must still have their original label on.
On this rainy Friday afternoon as I was flicking through the magazine put out by WasteMINZ my day was suddenly made just a wee bit brighter.
Amid all the doom and gloom of the world is wasting x product at ridiculous levels I came across a small feature article on something a little bit cool, a little bit different and that most definitely brightened my day: Educational computer games.
Try it... I dare you!
I did a little bit of research and the game that I played (briefly of course!) was called ” Michael, Michael, Go Recycle! .” Highly addictive, in this game (designed, I’ll admit, for kids) you run around picking up various types of rubbish and then deposit them into various recycling and rubbish bins. You get points for the more you recycle and you have to think about what you have collected and what bin it should go into.
So if are you sitting at home playing with a kid and you want to teach them about recycling or if you are at work and want just a little bit of entertainment to fill in your Friday, check it out at http://funschool.kaboose.com/globe-rider.earth-day!
Artists concerned with sustainability are increasingly using old, unwanted materials to make beautiful creations, sculptures and fashion (here think World of Wearable Arts).
This beautiful bird is made out of recycled, damaged CD's
Waste separation schemes help to minimize the amount of useable waste going to landfills
As wheelie bins allocated to different types of waste are appearing throughout the country, it is becoming increasingly obvious that separating and treating our various types of waste correctly could have a major impact on the amount of waste that is, well, wasted instead of used constructively.
In Canterbury, we now have three bins dedicated to separating waste and enabling more efficient waste collection , and Auckland has just got the ‘yellow’ recycling bin, which means for the most part we can effectively separate our waste. Read the rest of this entry »
Final Friday Favourites for July and my last as GM of SIFT. For all future enquiries for SIFT please email
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So here are the cool links that we have found in the past week:
A nice little Friday interlude – a video of the Johnson family from the blog Zero Waste Home (USA). Everything looks so uncluttered and simplified and achievable. It would be great to be able to take our own containers for meat, cheese and fish as Bea Johnson does to our supermarkets. We look forward to reading more about what the Johnson family do to be zero waste.
Zero Waste Home Video - click on the image to go to the site to watch
Have a read of the blog and you might some new ideas and tips to make your life one with less waste.
The 100% Recyclable and Compostable Christmas Tree
Here at the Sustainable Initiatives Fund office we enjoy getting in the Christmas spirit while implementing our core values of sustainability and minimisation of wastestreams. For these reasons, it was fitting for our office Christmas tree to be one which embodies the three R’s, Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.
The ‘tree’ is made from bamboo shoots and assembled with unbleached twine. We created our own decorations by using outdated business flyers: creating stars, Christmas chain and even a little angel. The decorations were held together and hung with cotton and we added small torn calico bows and finished the look off with a tree-topping star made from old office file dividers. Through creativity we have made a 100% recyclable and compostable* Christmas tree. The finishing product was so good that it will be the face of SIFT’s 2010 Christmas card!
Let us know how you are reducing your waste this Christmas.
A couple of entrepreneurial and environmentally positive locals from Christchurch are holding the Greatest Dress Sale Ever.
The sale is to be held on Saturday 4th December from 9am – 4pm at 86 Rattray Street, Riccarton. You can either get involved as a seller, a buyer or both!
For sellers: All you need to do is register by emailing
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. In the email please include; the size of the dress, the label, the style / brief description, the price you would like the dress sold for, and the minimum you would accept for the sale of the dress. If you want to sell your pre-loved dresses, there is a simple one-off fee, with no profit taken from the sale of your items.
$5 – ONE DRESS
$10 – TWO TO FIVE DRESSES
$15 – FIVE TO TEN DRESSES
$20 – TEN TO TWENTY DRESSES
The selling fee is to be deposited into a nominated bank account (please ask them via email) then drop your sale items of this week by arrangement through e-mail or at the sale address tomorrow (27th November), between 9am and 12pm. No more sale items will be accepted after Wednesday 1st December. Following the sale you will receive an email stating which items were sold and when to pick up your earnings!
For the buyers: The dress sale is on Saturday the 4th and it starts at 9am. Like all good sales it is advised that you get in quick to get the best picks. Private changing areas will be provided. So for all the women in Christchurch, gather your mothers, sisters, daughters and girlfriends and get involved with this fantastic local opportunity to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.
This is a fantastic opportunity for all to get together for an enjoyable day while conciously shopping for your new (old) summer dress.
Some call it lazy blogging we call it extending knowledge – sharing the cool, interesting, inspiring, good things that we come across each week that are related to sustainability, environmentally positive living, waste and anything else we think you might like.
Celsias summarises Environment Minister Nick Smith’s climate challenges speech at the Australia New Zealand Climate Change and Business Conference – here.
Happened on this lovely educational song by Jack Johnson. It starts about a minute and half into the video. It’s a great little song to teach children about Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. You can watch another version on You Tube here – it gets stuck in your head for the rest of the day! “Because three it’s the magic number… Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!”
