Useful links on waste reduction
Exploring waste minimisation? Trying to reduce your home, school or business environmental impact, here in NZ?
Once you have explored this One Planet website (where you at a 'useful links' page), these additional external links may help you:
- Like and Follow 'OnePlanetNZ' on Facebook
- Green Education Foundation USA - Waste Reduction Challenge
- Linear Economy - a blog to explain what it is, and why circular is better!
- Why consumerism can't last - a blog from Canadians for a Sustainable Society
- The Beginners Guide to Driving Electric Cars
- Wikipedia on 'Consumerism' and on 'Waste'
- Plastic waste in modern society - Guardian article from 2017
- Polymer fibres in fashion clothing encourage throw away, but they don't go away! BBC item.
- back in 1989 NZ's glass milk bottles gave way to plastics - was it the right choice? TVNZ item.
- WasteMINZ on Facebook
- Sustainable Living Education Trust - household & community education info on many aspects of sustainability: 'future living skills' (Includes a waste minimisation community learning guide: free access in member council areas)
- Rubbishfree (blog plus an online shop)
- Links to councils' waste information pages in NZ - look first at our Councils page - but if your council is not detailed there, try recycle.co.nz links page.
- Concept of 'One Planet Living' used internationally
- NZ Ministry for Environment website - waste pages
- Waste Minimisation Fund - projects supported around NZ
- Envision and Resource Rescue (Auckland)
- ZeroWaste Network NZ - community led projects
- Plastic Bottle Kayak (video) and Plastic Bottle Greenhouse projects - pics/videos to prompt your imagination!
- Enviroschools Foundation - network of participating NZ schools
- Plastic Free July - international project
- The Rubbish Trip NZ website, also find them on Facebook
- Love Food Hate Waste website and on Facebook.
- Freecycle NZ (give stuff away) see also FreeForAll
- Conscious Consumers - links customers and businesses (especially cafes) seeking to reduce waste
- Environment Hubs NZ
- E-Cycle (get electronics waste recycled)
- Recycle NZ - includes video, campaign week each year.
- Living off the smell of an oily rag (NZ blog site)
- Environmental Choice NZ (recycled product certifications)
- On the Road Recycling
- Waste-aware firms at Sustainable Business Network - SBN members
- Environmental Footprint calculator - uses a quiz (USA) and there's other USA/Australia version here
- Footprint calculator from WWF in the UK, but there is no NZ-specific one.
- Carbon footprint calculator from Enviro-Mark (NZ) and a second one available from SBN, with instructions to download.
- NZ Education - school resource on environmental footprinting (PDF poster) and associated teacher's notes.
- ECO - Environmental and Conservation Organisations of NZ - a network of local and national groups.
- Keep NZ Beautiful
- Sustainable Coastlines - promotes beach cleans, river care and waste reduction - also on Facebook
- The Non Plastic Maori (blog) - Facebook
- Transform - a visual arts based investigation of waste. (Word document download)