Webinar Series
Recycling Week's Webinar Series are back in 2023!
After the success of our webinar series in 2022 we are excited to bring Recycling Week participants a webinar series with an amazing line up of speaker, sharing their knowledge and expertise on all things waste minimisation and recycling.
When we buy a product, we also buy any waste associated with it (including the packaging and the product itself, once it has reached the end of its useable life). We are all responsible for waste, so it's important that we all do our part to minimise it where possible!
For this year's Procurement Monday Webinar we are focusing on food waste. As a key stream often destined to landfill, this webinar will share insights on how to better procure and store food to prevent food waste. However, if you must dispose, what is the best way to do so.
Speakers: Love Food Hate Waste NZ & The Compost Collective
Looking for tips, ideas and recipes for reducing food waste at home and making the most of your food? Find inspiration from Love Food Hate Waste NZ on their website or check out their socials @lovefoodhatewastenz on Facebook and Instagram
The Compost Collective is here to help Aucklanders reduce food and garden waste through composting. We have an informative website with tutorials, and workshops run by composting tutors across wider Auckland, are at the heart of the initiative. An initiative run by EcoMatters, Kaipātiki Project, in partnership with Auckland Council, Compost Collective runs free workshops across Tāmaki Makaurau educating and breaking down the barriers around composting. And, if people don't have the space or time to compost at home, there are alternative options such as joining a community composting hub, or using ShareWaste NZ - the tinder of composting. Find out more at compostcollective.org.nz.
This Monday, consider all areas where you generate waste and investigate whether you can procure away from waste by swapping, reducing or fully removing the waste component.
Awareness of how much unnecessary waste goes to landfill every day is a powerful way to influence positive behaviour and reduce overall waste.
For Waste-Free Tuesday we're joined by Zero Waste Network and Repair Cafe Aotearoa New Zealand!
Zero Waste Network represent community enterprises across Aotearoa New Zealand who are working towards zero waste. Their mission is to connect and empower a network of zero waste community enterprises across Aotearoa, inform policy and procurement, and trial and deliver zero waste solutions.
Repair Cafe Aotearoa New Zealand (RCANZ) is a grassroots organisation that is deeply embedded in the Right to Repair Movement. Repair cafés are pop-up events where people get together and help each other fix their broken household items and personal belongings for a koha. It's all about bringing communities together, sharing skills between generations, keeping repair skills alive, and saving stuff from going to landfill, and instead extending the lifespan of your belongings, and learning how to maintain them well. This protects the environment, takes the fight to the cost-of-living crisis by saving money and raises awareness as well as teaching new skills - win, win, win, win!!
This Tuesday make a conscious effort to not use your landfill waste bin and be sure to repair, repurpose and recycle items that have an end-of-life solution. For an added challenge try to go through a full day without producing recycling or general waste.
Single-use products make up a significant amount of waste going to landfill, and a good proportion of waste found in our marine environment.
For Reusable Wednesday we're joined by: Bin Inn & Ecostore
For 35 years, Bin Inn has been offering refill solutions to its customers. Shoppers are encouraged to bring their own containers into the store to refill, and for doing that, Bin Inn offers a 5% discount. It is always encouraged to buy only the amount you need, reducing food and financial waste. All the Bin Inn stores are independently owned, so supporting local small business owners is an added bonus. Bin Inn is constantly looking for innovative ways to reduce the waste in the supply chain, in the stores, and in customers’ homes.
ecostore make it easy to choose safer, effective products to care for your family’s home and health – made with respect for the environment. Since the opening of our flagship store in 1997 we’ve provided kiwis with the option to refill their ecostore bottles again and again. Today, we have over 90 refill stations around New Zealand, where by one bottle at a time we can help make a change.
This Reusable Wednesday, become a reusable superstar by phasing out single use containers and make room for reusable ones. Take your containers, bottles and jars to your local refillery and shop for waste free packaging. Reusing what you already have is key to minimise waste!
Simply put, contamination is any material present in the wrong recycling stream. Contamination causes issues at recycling facilities and contributes to recyclable materials ending up in landfill.
For Rinse and Clean Thursday we're joined by Ministry for the Environment and Reclaim .
With numerous initiatives, regulations and product stewardship schemes in place and on the horizon, the Ministry for the Environment will be talking about some measures underway to improve waste minimisation and recycling outcomes, and what a low-emissions, low-waste future could look like for Aotearoa New Zealand.
As New Zealand's largest privately owned recycler, Reclaim will share the differences of commercial and residential recycling, highlighting areas of impact and things to consider when it comes to packaging materials and their recyclability.
This Rinse and Clean Thursday, declare war on contamination and ensure all containers and packaging to be recycled are adequately cleaned before disposal.
Combining the two final daily focuses, this webinar encourages participants to reflect on all areas of waste minimisation discussed earlier in the week and consider areas of potential improvement within your professional and personal lives. What habits can be changed, what items can be phased-out, and what areas can we collectively avoid waste.
For Reflection Friday and Spring Clean Weekend webinar we're joined by Computer Recycling, Aotearoa Food Rescue Alliance (AFRA) & Koha Apparel
Computer Recycling Ltd is the largest electronic waste recycler in New Zealand, servicing thousands of customers each year throughout Aotearoa and the Pacific. On-site in Auckland we undertake specialised IT refurbishment, along with e-waste processing and recycling. Being an end-to-end e-waste processing facility sits at the core of what we do, and we aspire to recycle more than 90 per cent of the material that comes in from our customers whether that be through refurbishment & remarketing, or material processing. Through collaboration with Computer Recycling, our customers are given peace of mind that their IT and electronic equipment is being ethically and responsibly diverted from landfill.
The Aotearoa Food Rescue Alliance (AFRA) is a network of 33 food rescue organisations that work collaboratively to tackle two of the biggest issues facing New Zealand right now – the cost of living and climate change. Food rescue takes an environmental problem – food waste – and turns it into a social solution – food relief.
Working across Tāmaki Makaurau for four years, Koha Apparel is a registered charity that seeks to uplift our most marginalised, providing clean, quality clothing to those in need at no cost. They host 20 pop-ups each month, clothing over 300 people weekly. This year they are on track to recirculate a tonne of clothing, utilising donations from the public and brand partners that provide opportunities for social inclusion while creating a circular future for our local fashion industry.
This Reflection Friday and Spring Clean Weekend, reflect on what was learnt and make commitments to minimise waste at work, school and at home. Identifying all that can be reused, repaired, recovered or repurposed.