This is really important for zero waste people.

The government is currently consulting on two major proposals with far-reaching implications for waste:  the Emissions Reduction Plan (transforming the waste sector) and the Waste Strategy & Legislation review.
We believe we need to do as much as we can to make sure that these plans bring about the transformational change we urgently need to address the waste crisis and keep temperature rise to less than 1.5 degrees.

We encourage our supporters to make a submission.  

To make it easy and quick, thanks to the Zero Waste Network, here are some guides.

- Emissions Reduction Plan due on 24 November:

•  Prepare your own submission.  
  • You can do a quick submission using this guide .  You can copy and paste from this guide, or
  • Read our full submission and use any of this for your own and organisation's more detailed submission  
• When you are ready, go to the consultation portal 

- Waste Strategy & Legislation Review due on 10 December: 

• Prepare your own submission
  • You can do a very quick submission using this ​guide - primarily for individuals broadly wanting to support zero waste solutions
  • You can do a detailed submission using this guide (17pp) - primarily for individuals, organisations, projects, businesses and councils organisations involved in some aspect of zero waste/waste minimisation/circular economy work.

Thank you for taking the time.

​Trish Allen

Big shout out to Durham Farms for using home compostable packaging which breaks down completely in compost bins and worm farms.  Did you know that most compostable packaging needs high heat for a good length of time to break down?  Which means it has to be hot composted in a commerical facility, otherwise it just goes to landfill.  
​Good on you Durham Farms, leading the way!

We are proud to be offering our compost for sale!  We've been collecting ingredients from local businesses over the last months and turning them into rich compost which is finally ready for sale at our Lawrie Road Recycling Centre. And don't forget, you can drop off your food scraps for free for us to add to our compost.  

Join our Waste Educator Tineke at the Snells Beach Library on Friday 30 April at 10 am to learn about worms and the amazing job they do in converting our food scraps to beautiful fertiliser!  Have a look at some worms under a magnifying glass!  Can you tell their mouth end from their bum end?  Do the worm dance with Tineke!  We don't think that's gross at all - do you?

A huge shout out to our waste ambassadors at the Warkworth A&P Show on Saturday for supervising our waste stations, helping the public to get their refuse in the right bin.  And big thanks to the show patrons for all your positive comments about our work and for being so interested in what happens to the waste.  We are thrilled to have diverted 74.7% from landfill.  Of that, nearly 60% was food scraps and compostable coffee cups, cardboard plates and serveware, which will all go into our compost bins at our Lawrie Rd recycling centre tomorrow.  In about 3 months it will come out the other end as compost! 
Another 16% was recycling (cans, bottles, etc). 

And thanks to our local politicians Marja Lubeck (Labour) and Chris Penk (National) for taking the time to come and see what we were doing.   We appreciate you taking an interest.   

Awesome artwork along the edge of the stream and walkway at Snells Beach by the pupils of Snells Beach School - and what a great message to get across.  Taking care of our environment.  Well done kids (and sponsors).