Christchurch Airport + Fulton Hogan
18/09/2018
Christchurch Airport has partnered with Fulton Hogan on a commercial trial of PlastiPhalt – a roading asphalt incorporating recycled plastic.
Sustainability Success Stories
Flight Plastics
18/09/2018
Flight Plastics uses the latest European technology in the country’s first and only PET plastic washplant.
Fuji Xerox
18/09/2018
Fuji Xerox is the first New Zealand print company to have a voluntary product stewardship scheme accredited by the Ministry for the Environment.
GoodFor
18/09/2018
GoodFor runs a chain of plastic free wholefoods ‘refillery’ stores in Auckland. The store offers more than 350 bulk wholefood ingredients. It also sells oils, syrups and vinegars on tap and the full range of ecostore cleaning products. The store encourages customers to bring and refill their own jars, bottles or containers. It hand picks and delivers to online shoppers. For every purchase made in store GoodFor supports a tree planted by the Trees for the Future initiative.
Innocent Packaging
18/09/2018
Innocent Packaging creates certified commercially compostable packaging made from plants. The company recently teamed up with We Compost to pilot The Full Package. This is New Zealand’s first city-wide café-based compostables collection system.
NZAgbiz
18/09/2018
NZAgbiz diverts waste from Fonterra and other dairy manufacturers. It re-works this into animal nutrition products. Any excess is sold as ingredients for stock feeds, soaps and bio fuels. This waste material is not suited for human consumption. It would normally end up as landfill waste. It includes ‘downgrade products’ such as powder, butter, cheese and cream cheese. It also includes products like oversized sifter particles, fine powder particles and cheese trims. NZAgbiz turns this into calf milk replacers CMRs, pig products and specialist animal health supplements. These include probiotics, colostrum powder and electrolyte replacements.
SKYCITY + Fonterra Brands (Moo2Shampoo)
18/09/2018
This partnership has created the Moo2Shampoo product stewardship initiative. This recycles Anchor lightproof milk bottles used at SkyCafé in Auckland into packaging for the Puriri shampoos and lotions provided in the SKYCITY Grand and SKYCITY Auckland Hotel.
Vinnies Wellington
18/09/2018
Volunteers at Vinnies Wellington’s Sew workshop repurpose textile waste from Vinnies op shops in a supportive learning environment.