Nominate your fav packaging

With school going back this week, the 2012 Unpackit Awards have received nominations for packaging free lunch options – including Nude Food Movers, Sistema lunchboxes, and reusable sandwich wrappers from GingerPye and 4MyEarth. Nominate your fav packaging today at www.Unpackit.org and check out the Unpackit blog to create a packaging free lunch which isn’t going to end up in the compost!

Biodynamic Workshop this Sunday

This hands-on workshop will be on Making and Applying Preparation 500. Held at the stunning Glendhu Bay Station on Sun 29th Jan, 9am-noon, the view and morning tea alone is worth the $25! Prep 500 can improve the vitality and water retention of your soil, much needed in Wanaka. Find out what Biodynamics is all about, and how to grow more food without chemicals. Tickets from Wastebusters shop.

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Qtown e-Cycling

The boys popped over to Queenstown to pick up a stash of TVs and other electronic waste from the e-Cycle site and from a large business. Great to see people choosing not to throw toxic e-waste in the landfill, not the place for heavy metals and chemicals! e-Cycle can do a discounted rate for businesses clearing out their electronics, call Bis on 443 8606 x5.

Thanks for recycling!

Thanks to all the awesome folk who make the effort to separate their recycling, give it a rinse and put it out on the kerbside each week.  You can still recycle when you are out and about by using the recycling bins in and  around town. …read more