New Mastagard $ 5 million plastics recycling facility opens
14 October 2009
The Sustainable Initiatives Fund attended the opening of Mastagard's new $ 5 million plastics recycling plant. This is an exciting step forward in plastics recycling for Christchurch and surrounds as Mastagard will be able to recycle milk bottles, HDPE plastics (High Density Polyethylene) and LDPE plastics (Low Density Polyethylene - such as plastic food wrap). This will significantly increase the types of plastics that can be recycled thereby reducing the amount of plastic that goes to landfill. Congratulations to the team at Mastagard.Read the Mastagard Press Release 141009 on the opening (pdf).
And visit our flickr site for photos.
News Bulletin - Sift Plastics Research Executive Summary
24 September 2009
The Sustainable Initiatives Fund recently carried out in-depth analysis to find out what the life of plastic packaging is, where it ends up and better ways of recycling it and targeting behavioural change within a consumer education programme, so we don’t use so much plastic in the first place.
You can read an executive summary of the aims of the research and the findings here SiftPlasticsResearchExecutiveSummary (pdf).
