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Unpackit Awards open

Posted on April 17, 2013 by sophie

Nominations are now open for the 2013 Unpackit Awards. It only takes a minute to nominate packaging you love or hate. Your chance to encourage companies to choose packaging which is better for the environment.

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Craft Night

Posted on August 16, 2012 by leanne

At this month’s craft night we made draught stoppers. Gina and Quinn came down and made a couple of snakes – Quinn impressed me with his sewing skills, it’s not easy to sew in a straight line, well done Quinn. …more

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Unpackit trophy

Posted on June 7, 2012 by gina

All the votes in the Unpackit Awards are in, and we were delighted to get over 10,000. The winner of the Best Packaging Award will get to display this gorgeous hand-crafted trophy for a year. Made by Dirk from recycled …more

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Biodynamic workshop #5

Posted on March 25, 2012 by leanne

Cow Pat Pit – yip, it’s as you would imagine. Today we got up to our elbows in cow pat, and it wasn’t as bad as I thought it might have been. CPP is a specialized kind of compost, where …more

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Unpackit Finalists Released

Posted on February 20, 2012 by gina

The finalists in the Unpackit Packaging Awards are out! Eight of the Best and eight of the Worst – all up on the Unpackit website www.unpackit.org Who will be the winner?? It’s up to you. Go the the Unpackit website …more

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Campbell Live Features Wanaka Wastebusters!

Posted on February 8, 2012 by tania

Campbell Live ran a programme on Wanaka Wastebusters recently! “One small town in New Zealand could really teach Auckland a thing or two about recycling.” Hmm…kind of ironic. Maybe someone should tell the council??? Click here to see the story.

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Qtown e-Cycling

Posted on January 25, 2012 by gina

The boys popped over to Queenstown to pick up a stash of TVs and other electronic waste from the RCN e-Cycle site and from a large business. Great to see people choosing not to throw toxic e-waste in the landfill, …more

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Unpackit Team Shortlisting for Awards

Posted on January 25, 2012 by gina

The Unpackit Packaging Awards received 215 nominations – more than double last year. Yahooo!!! The team is spending this week shortlisting the eight finalists for the Best and the Worst categories. Sophie and Gina headed to the supermarket on Monday …more

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Win one of five Loopcase shopping bags

Posted on December 2, 2011 by gina

Sick of bringing home plastic shopping bags filled with bad packaging? Do something about it by nominating the packaging that bugs you most in the Unpackit Packaging Awards! Put in a nomination before Christmas, and you’ll be in the draw …more

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Nominate it!

Posted on October 26, 2011 by gina

Non-recyclable packaging? Ridiculously unnecessary packaging? Packaging that is harmful to the environment? Put in a nomination (or more than one) for the Worst Packaging Award. And while you’re on the www.unpackit.org site, nominate your favourite packaging for the Best Packaging …more

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