Newsletter - Christmas 2007
Christmas wishes to all Wanaka Wastebusters members and supporters. Hope you're managing to hold onto some Christmas spirit and peace in the midst of all the madness.If you know friends or family who would enjoy our newsletter, please forward this email to them. They can sign-up for free.
Congratulations to the three young Hawea film-makers who made it into the final round of the Outlook for Someday sustainability film competition. Hugo, Hank and Noel were the youngest winners and took home one of 20 laptops. The ultimate winner will be chosen by public vote.
Thanks to Chris Schmeltz, a local film-maker, who gave lots of support to the young film-makers as part of the Wanaka Wastebusters education for sustainability project. Chris has now taken his skills to Berlin, and we wish him all the best there.
As a Christmas present for our community, Wanaka Wastebusters is donating a copy of the WA$TED! DVD and book to the Wanaka library. TV3's WA$TED programme takes "eco-horror" households and makes them greener. Even for people who are already into recycling, it's got lots of new ideas.
Sue's Report – What's going on at
Wanaka Wastebusters?
Recycling is becoming big business around the country, but community sector operations like ours still stack up, says Sue Coutts, Wanaka Wastebusters manager. Read more...Bag the Habit campaign
The Prime Minister has joined the 40 percent of Wanaka shoppers who take their own bags to the supermarket. Show your support to Wanaka Four Square supermarket, next to Tuatara's in Ardmore St, who are the first New Zealand supermarket to commit to going plastic bag free in one year.Enviroschools
Glenorchy school has dedicated lots of school time and energy to the Enviroschools programme in the last term, which has resulted in them being awarded a silver award. Hawea Flat and Arrowtown are also going great guns, reports Wanaka Wastebusters education for sustainability facilitator Simon Williams.Read more...
Sustainable Living
Wanaka Wastebusters have run ten Sustainable Living night classes in Queenstown and Wanaka as part of our education contract with Queenstown Lakes District Council. From building to composting, these classes have been really well-supported with lots of entertaining discussion. You can go to any class that takes your interest, so watch out for the 2008 programme. Read more...Wastedaq - The story behind Wanaka's waste statistics.
Through recycling, Wanaka residents and businesses divert the equivalent of 765 shipping containers of recycled material away from landfill. Placed end to end, those containers would cover 4.6 km. Go Wanaka recyclers! Read more...Gardening Tips
How to keep your garden growing this summer – mulching and making manure tea. Read more...The Gardening Diaries
Gina – the novice gardener fights slugs and figures out new things to do with snowpeas.Greg – the experienced "disorganised" gardener is inspired to be more efficient after visiting China. Read more...
Coming Up
Christmas and New Year collection days and how to get rid of the evidence after you’ve partied hard. Read more...Meet the Team
Who's that in the Cowboy hat? Who is our resident geek? And who always has a smile when you come into the Restore. Read more...Recycled Art
Joanna Langford, who used to work in the Wanaka Wastebusters shop a couple of years ago, has been exhibiting her sculptures made from recycled bags and satay skewers. These three images are from exhibitions 'Down from the Nightlands' at the Sarjeant gallery in Wanganui, and 'Out of Erewhon' at the Christchurch City art gallery. See the pictures...Past Editions
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