The Love Food Hate Waste campaign launched on Thursday the 12th of March. The campaign aims to bring the problem of household food waste out into the open and provide information to help Kiwis cut the waste. It highlights the importance of planning food purchases and meals, being smart about food storage and being creative with leftovers.
The campaign is being run by Councils nationwide and is based on research that included surveying 1,365 New Zealanders, examining the contents of 1,402 household rubbish bins and giving 100 families diaries to record food disposal for a week. Findings include:
It is estimated Kiwis spend $872 million a year on food that then gets thrown away uneaten.
We throw away over 122,547 tonnes of food a year – enough to feed around 262,917 people, or the population of the Bay of Plenty for 12 months.
Bread, fruit and vegies, and meal leftovers are the most commonly discarded foods. The equivalent of 20 million loaves of bread is thrown into rubbish bins uneaten every year.
The average household sends around 79 kg of edible food to landfills every year.
Avoidable food waste costs the average household $563 a year.
61 Councils from the Far North all the way down to Southland are now throwing their support behind the project, and is being coordinated by WasteMINZ.
Support the campaign by liking the Facebook page. If you have an event, tip or recipe to share email it to info@lovefoodhatewaste.co.nz. You can download some of the awesome posters by going to http://www.wasteminz.org.nz/sector-groups/behaviour-change/love-food-hate-waste/
And you can check out some of the media about the campaign:
Envision NZ is offering a special deal for the last few spaces on their Study Tour to CRN members:
Envision in association with Zero Waste South Australia invites you to join our Resource Recovery Study Tour to Adelaide, South Australia: 20th – 22nd May 2015
Come to Adelaide to see for yourself how South Australia is achieving 77.4% diversion of waste to landfill and recycling over 80% of beverage containers through a range of innovative Zero Waste policies and strategies in action. South Australia's Zero Waste programmes enjoy overwhelming public support and have created hundreds of jobs.
We are currently working with our South Australian hosts to finalise the itinerary with visits to a range of facilities that make up the South Australian resource recovery system including:
A comprehensive look at South Australia's bottle deposit system including; local buy-back centres and processing facility. New Scout run, buy-back centre with automated container counting. (Scouts run 10 centres with a total revenue of $23m per annum).
Resource Recovery facilities (both publicly and privately operated) including Transfer Stations with comprehensive front-end recovery
Resource Recovery Precinct- a cluster of resource recovery operations in a dedicated zone including; Adelaide Resource Recovery - concrete processing certified for use in road and building construction. ResourceCo - processing of large quantities of C and D materials for use in adjacent Alternative Fuel Company refuse derived fuel plant.
State of the art organic waste collection and processing, creating a range of solutions for local government, industry and agriculture
MRF for effective sorting of dry recyclables in a low tech facility environment due to the specific profile of SA materials
Regional Subsidiary HQ - a unique concept to South Australia
E-waste processing system including extraction of lead from old TVs and Monitors
Seminar with presentations by government (Zero Waste South Australia, EPA) and industry leaders
Presentations will also be given by operators at some facilities
Zero Waste SA executives and other experts will provide narration and answer questions between sites and venues
The final confirmed itinerary will be sent out closer to departure date.
Costs: $4,075 incl. gst. Flights (ex Auckland), accommodation and meals are all included.
Volunteers are wanted to help support MPHS, a community organisation, divert waste from landfill at the Waitakere Refuse and Recycling Centre in Henderson. MPHS have strong values around people and the environment. We plan to creatively engage volunteers to target valued items from the discarded rubbish and up-cycle it for another life.
We offer
A functional, well resourced space for up-cycling activities
Training to comply with operations at the site
Work within a friendly, supporting team of people
Opportunity to scope the waste and assess its viability
Create, test and value new products
Up skill for potential employment
Learn how a community recycling operation can operate
One month to go till this year’s WasteMINZ mid year Round-Up on Thursday 23 and Friday 24 April at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Auckland.
The updated programme is available to view from here, and the Super Saver registration rate is available until the 31st March.
Keynote speakers include leading lawyer Mai Chen, business commentator Rod Oram, Business NZ CEO, Phil O’Reilly, and Jacqueline Farman, CEO of Colmar Brunton.
Social media workshop: We are pleased to announce that we will have a social media workshop facilitated by Jon Randles from MOSH Social Media Marketing. Jon will help you to understand:
· Why social media is an important medium in our industry
· How can we highlight and normalise ‘good’ behaviour
· Examples of behaviour change campaigns
· Learn about best practice social media techniques
Auckland Council invites you to attend a meeting to discuss councils’ aspirational goal for Auckland to be free from single use plastic bags (the sort that are commonly used as shopping bags).
The meeting will discuss some of the issues around plastic bags, and will be the commencement of an Auckland Council led packaging workgroup, with single use plastic bags as the initial topic.
Meeting date: Monday 11th May 2015
Meeting time: 10am – 1pm
Venue: Auckland Council offices, 135 Albert street, Auckland
The fifth Fonterra Brands Recycling Forum will take place on on the morning of Friday, 22 May in Christchurch.
The formal invite with confirmed presenters will be sent closer to the event, but here’s a topline summary on what the Forum will provide:
An update on Fonterra eco-efficiency
Innovation partnership opportunities will be shared
Open Q&A
As per previous forums topics will include: Consumer packaging recycling, onshore recycling capacity, issues and opportunities, innovative products using recycled content, capturing value from mixed plastics, and product stewardship scheme development,
among other topics.