Waitemata Waste Away

04/12/2025

Live in an apartment or townhouse? Or want a way to process food scraps at your city centre office?
Bokashi is a great way to process your food scraps.
Join this city centre free workshop at the lovely UoA Bee Sanctuary in the city

Sustainable Future Collective and the Good folk from UoA Bee Sanctuary are partnering with Compost Collective and Aiotanga Trust to share with all city dwellers the goodness and importance of utilising Bokashi composting methods in inner city apartment living.Come along and learn why Bokashi is such...

03/10/2025

You know you a 'Waster' when you are at World of WearableArt (WOW) and you are admiring the drinks recycling system for water.

27/08/2025

Auckland Council starts the trial of fortnightly general rubbish collection. ( the red and green bin).

Trials are an excellent way for people to test something new.

The next stage in deciding whether Auckland might move to fortnightly rubbish collections will get underway with public consultation opening in October. 

15/08/2025

Today!

15/08/2025

Ready to shake things up? The waste crisis won’t fix itself, and your voice matters.

Winning a Reusable Future: Changemaker Bootcamp is a free online training to help you fight plastic pollution and build a future rooted in reuse.

Our next bootcamp starts this September—with more sessions in October and November—so you can join when it works best for you.

Sign up now: https://action.storyofstuff.org/signup/Reuse-Bootcamp-September-2025/?utm_campaign=september_reuse_changemaker_bootcamp&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=static_image

15/08/2025

NOPE. ⛔️♻️ No lids in the recycling bin PLEASE. This is why ⤵

🟣 Bottle lids fall through the screening machines and can get stuck in the machinery.
🔵 The dye in a bottle lid (milk bottles for instance) can bleed into other coloured plastics and ruin the appearance of the recycled product.
🟢 Container lids are light and flat just like paper/cardboard packaging and due to automation are often mistakenly sorted with the paper & cardboard.
🟠 But the biggest issue is if a lid is still on a bottle or container then something dangerous or gross could still be inside it and that is a danger to the health and safety of the workers! ⚠️

23/07/2025

17/07/2025

Environment Minister Penny Simmonds overruled officials’ advice in scrapping key waste policies, including plastics bans, recycling mandates and emissions targets.