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WASTE

Participants :

Tina  Johansson, Adele Smith, Charlie Goulter,  Paula Short, Jeff Santa Barbara

Ideas:

• Clothes swapping party
• Other swap parties e.g. Tools
• Rubbish assessment /census of community bins
• Recycling research
  • What are other villages doing?
  • Zero waste as a concept. Information on their website
  • Kirsty Quickfall/ Ian Challenger both live in Nelson now and may have ideas from Kaikoura's Zero Waste project
• Community rubbish bins with recycling facilities
  • e.g. Wharf , Ruby Bay, Mapua village centre
  • "Love" recycling project being rolled out in other towns, could we personalise this for Mapua/ art/sculpture
• Plastic bag-free town
  • Mapua branded eco bags
• Cafes/restaurants → Bokashi system, composting
• Bring your own container - Café's /coffee
• Recycling store
  • Ruby Recycles more for clothes, what about other items?
• No junk mail stickers
• Recycling waste (unwanted items ) to Kindergartens, cencus of what kind of items they would like to receive from the community for reuse by the kids
• Water - use of water
  • need for eco-friendly cleaners/ natural cleaners in this situation
• Composting → community gardens

Administrator for this group is Paula Short.

To join this group email mapua.waste@transitiontowns.org.nz