Wanaka Wastebusters - Newsletter Winter 2007



	Newsletter - Winter 2007 Welcome to our first Wanaka Wastebusters newsletter. Newsletters will be going out quarterly to keep our members in touch with what’s happening at Wanaka Wastebusters. We’d love your feedback, so email us on gina@wanakawastebusters.co.nz. Sue’s report – What’s going on at Wanaka Wastebusters? Wanaka Wastebusters is growing steadily, building on our community’s original desire to be able to recycle in our own town. Basic recycling now pays for itself and we are able to turn our attention this year to processing more marginal materials, such as plastic 3 to 7 and film. Read more... The Wastedaq Wanaka is one of the only communities in New Zealand reducing the amount of waste produced. For the last two years total waste sent from Wanaka to the Victoria flat landfill has gone down by five percent a year. Pretty good considering our rapid population growth. Read more... Education projects in the community Our contract with QLDC involves providing zero waste education to help minimise waste in the Wanaka and Wakatipu basins. We’re really excited about this as providing community education has been one of our long term goals. Read more... So I’m a member of Wastebusters. What does that mean? Wanaka Wastebusters is a Community Enterprise, a not-for-profit business set up to meet a need that was not being catered for by the commercial sector. We wanted to use the resources we saw being thrown out to increase the quality of life for people in our community and to reduce harm to our environment. Read more... Veggie Gardening Guide The Wastebusters Veggie Gardening Guide has been put together with the help of Greg Inwood, a self-professed “disorganized gardener”. The aim is to pass on some local knowledge, to give new gardeners (or gardeners new to Wanaka) a starting place. Read more... Composting vs bokashi vs worm farm Putrescibles (great word – meaning kitchen scraps and garden waste) make up around 40 percent of rubbish that goes to landfill. But food and kitchen waste can be turned to gold for your garden, through composting, worm farming or bokashi. Read more... Worms and that funny word ‘permaculture’ So what do worms and permaculture have in common? Well, permaculture is a system of good design for gardens and properties based on a set of principles allowing us to work with nature. Read more... Coming Up What's on the Wanaka Wastebusters radar for the next three months. Read more... Meet the team Who is that in the Fluro? Who is in the upstairs hide out? Who is it that says hello when you come into the shop? Read more... Past Editions Christmas 2009 Winter 2009 Christmas 2008 Spring 2008 Autumn 2008 Christmas 2007 Winter 2007

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