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Method Recycling - Recycling Made Beautiful

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Devonport Naval Base Declares War on Waste

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Discover how staff-led innovation at NZDF’s Devonport Naval Base cut waste to landfill by 47% and reduced costs by 25%.

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Divers have attached 38 seeded mussel lines to the underside of Te Wānanga, the new public space which reaches out over the water in Quay Street.

With all 600 metres of rope, laden with mussels, anchored in place, the kūtai / mussels will provide a truly living and organic connection between the city and the harbour.

While not destined for the table, each mature mussel will filter up to 150 to 200 litres of seawater a day taking in phytoplankton for nourishment as well as removing pollutants and acting as bio-indicators of aquatic health in the inner harbour.

The arrival of the mussels marks the beginning of the unveiling of many elements brought to six downtown projects through an innovative design partnership between Mana whenua, Auckland Council and Auckland Transport.

The textured surfaces of Te Wānanga have been designed to encourage the attachment of seaweeds, barnacles and periwinkles and the ropes of green-lipped mussels installed today, signalling a collective intent to improve water quality and biodiversity.

The design partnership sees this innovative work raising public consciousness of natural solutions to created problems, placing these solutions into the most urbanised part of Tāmaki Makaurau and Aotearoa.

Dr Jarrod Walker (Nga Puhi), a marine scientist and technical advisor to Mana whenua has helped deliver the aspirations of Mana whenua as kaitiaki of Te Waitematā. Dr Walker also worked with Richelle Kahui-McConell who recently passed away, but he says her memory and work will not be forgotten.

He says: "Te Waitematā is a taonga tuku iho, and it should be treated as such. Unfortunately, this has not been the case historically. Today, Mana whenua wish to enhance the mauri of Te Waitematā and this project has provided an opportunity to develop practices and methods, grounded in Mātauranga Maori to move toward enhancing the health of the marine environment.

"Mana whenua's name for this area is 'Te Wānanga' a place of learning. Mana whenua gifted the name to signify that this space will be an area where people can learn about Mana whenua's deep connection with Te Waitematā and Tāmaki Makaurau, and for visitors to develop an appreciation for the harbour and to understand that we all need to care for the harbour and the marine environment.

"Mana whenua see the use of kūtai in this space as a step in the right direction to address both current and historic environmental issues impacting the mauri of Te Waitematā. This approach is just one of many programmes Mana whenua are implementing to regenerate the mauri of Te Waitematā," says Dr Walker.

Marcus Cameron, a project scientist on the trial and a senior aquatic scientist with Tonkin+Taylor describes the remarkable water filtering capacity of mussels.

"A single mature mussel can filter up to 150 to 200 litres of seawater a day taking in phytoplankton for nourishment as well as removing pollutants. They effectively act as bio-indicators of aquatic health, helping us monitor for any unwanted invasive species in the water," he says.

The trial began in 2020. Around 100m of seeded mussel lines, weighing approximately 600kg were delivered from the Firth of Thames where North Island Mussels Limited have their operation.

They arrived at Kelly Tarlton's last June for the start of the trial, where they were immersed in fresh water for 90 minutes as a biosecurity measure to kill any hitchhiking Mediterranean fan worm, invasive sea squirt and Asian kelp.

They then went into a tank of salt water overnight, so they were not stressed when relocated to the harbour. They range in size from 70-110mm and are about 18 months old - an age when mussels are often harvested for eating - but these mussels are not destined for the table.

The following day the seeded ropes were transported to the Maritime Museum where they were blessed by representatives of ngā Mana Whenua o Tāmaki Makaurau.

Divers attached the kūtai ropes to two waka floats and three pile wraps and assisted in the hanging of the ropes from six pontoons in the Maritime Museum and Ferry Basin. The final batch of kūtai was attached to these structures in late June 2020.

The 11-month trial was a success, and now 38 seeded mussel lines have made Te Wānanga their new home.

Programme Director Downtown Eric van Essen says: "This outcome captures the potential for Te Wānanga to encourage deeper understanding and appreciation of our different ecosystems and strengthen a living connection between land and sea in Auckland."

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Seeded mussel lines filter seawater from beneath Te Wānanga

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Divers have attached 38 seeded mussel lines to the underside of Te Wānanga, the new public space which reaches out over the water in Quay Street.

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Devonport Naval Base declares war on waste

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The project is being led by Petty Officer Lexie Gray and New Zealand Defence Force Sustainability Director Lee Bint, who say there was clear need for Devonport to improve how it handled workspace waste.

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DMAIC: Approach to Continuous Improvement - SixSigma.us

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What is DMAIC? The DMAIC model is one of the most popular and widely used methods to improve business functions or entire organizations. But, what does DMAIC stand for? The DMAIC methodology consists of five phases: Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control. These phases form the pillars of the DMAIC framework, allowing us to improve […]

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New bins for Devonport currently at NSD

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Babcock's initiative for the Navy base

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Cans for Kai initiative is our new initiative where consumerism waste becomes a community treasure, supporting our commitment to sustainability.

Pheonix Metalman Recycling in collaboration with LegaSea, Papatūānuku Kōkiri Marae, Westhaven Marina, and the Outboard Boating Club, is excited to introduce this innovative fundraising initiative that not only addresses environmental concerns but also - fuels the growth of our Kai Ika Project.

How Cans for Kai Works

Collection points: We collect aluminium cans at various locations, including Westhaven Marina, Outboard Boating Club (OBC), Orakei Marina, and Papatuanuku Kokiri Marae.

Recycling process: Our recycling partner Phoenix Metalman Recycling pay us for the collected aluminium cans, providing financial support and contributing to our independence. Recycling aluminium is not only economically beneficial but also environmentally responsible, as it is infinitely recyclable.

Engage with Cans for Kai

Cans for Kai is more than just a fundraiser - it's about promoting the value of recycling and supporting a sustainable circular economy model. Join us in assisting local councils in achieving their zero-waste goals.

Drop off your cans: Engage with the community by dropping off your cans at our collection points at Westhaven Marina, Orakei Marina, Outboard Boating Club (OBC), and Papatuanuku Kokiri Marae. Support is as simple as giving us your empty cans.

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Custom Bins - Tilley Street & Park Furniture

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To compliment our large selection of Litter and Recycle Bins, we also offer robust customisation capabilities. Our fully resourced design centre and versatile manufacturing plant can turn your designs into reality. Whether you are looking for a bespoke version of one of our products, or someone to

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Conduct a garbage bin audit to discover all the 'waste' that could be avoided, recycled or composted.

How you can do it

Whether at home, school or in your workplace, bin audits are a great way to understand waste you're creating and discover any confusion about the alternatives. For example, if your bin audit shows that family members, classmates or co-workers are putting cardboard in the landfill bin, you can check to see if there is a service for it to be recycled.
Getting Set up

If you're at work or school gather together a team of colleagues/classmates/teachers who are keen to conduct a bin audit. It's a much quicker and more fruitful process if conducted with a few people. Otherwise, at home, you can tackle the task by yourself or get the other members of your household involved.

Pick a day not long after your bins have just been emptied (you don't want to rummage through week-old waste). Make sure that you've given sufficient time for the bins to collect waste, but not too long that it's started to go putrid.

Find a location that's sheltered, has good airflow and is easy to clean. Make sure that the waste won't blow away in the wind, too.

Source some tarpaulin from a friend, neighbour, or colleague.

Optional: gather some buckets and scales to calculate the volume and weight of the waste you audit.

Draw a table so you can keep a record of the waste you find. You may find you just need two columns: Category of waste and weight/volume. However, it's always handy to prompt yourself to write the date, who helped with the audit, and what type of bin you were auditing (compost, general waste, recycling).

Find some gloves (preferably washable) so that your hands stay clean.

On the day

Gather your rubbish bin(s). Separate them by type (this may be: compost, recycling, general waste but it depends on the separation system in your home, school or workplace).

Start with one type of rubbish and empty it all onto the tarpaulin.

Separate the rubbish into piles. For example, you may separate the general waste bin into: batteries, paper, food, plastic bottles, plastic cutlery, soft plastic, cans, cardboard, glass.

Estimate the volume or percentage of waste in each pile (or accurately weigh if you have scales) and write this in your table.

If you have other bins, repeat this process with them, then clean up.

Taking the next steps

Once you've audited your bin, there's a lot of useful information that can come from it. Start by taking note of the "low hanging fruit"; in other works, things that you can change quickly and still make a big impact.

Focus on those one or two items and figure out how you can improve. It might be eliminating a certain item or product that ends up in your waste a lot, or sourcing a local recycling centre for items that can't go in the regular recycling bins.

Set SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Time-based) goals to reduce each item found in your bin audit. Reflect on these goals on a regular basis, and conduct a bin audit every 6 or 12 months to track your progress.

The Impact

Reduce waste that needs collecting and reduce transport pollution.

Engage with family members or employees on their waste, helping them to share specific behaviours they can change.

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How to do a plastic waste bin audit - Plastic Free July

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Are you recycling, composting, or avoiding waste correctly?

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Plastic Free July – Be Part of the Plastic Pollution Solution

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Join our global movement to reduce plastic pollution. Discover solutions and ideas to help reduce plastic waste in your home and community.

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Ministry for the Environment - Manatū Mō Te Taiao

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We are the Government's primary adviser on environmental matters. We also have a stewardship role. This involves taking a long-term perspective on environmental issues when making decisions.

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Seeded mussel lines filter seawater from beneath Te Wānanga

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Mussels Auckland

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Divers have attached 38 seeded mussel lines to the underside of Te Wānanga, the new public space which reaches out over the water in Quay Street.

With all 600 metres of rope, laden with mussels, anchored in place, the kūtai / mussels will provide a truly living and organic connection between the city and the harbour.

While not destined for the table, each mature mussel will filter up to 150 to 200 litres of seawater a day taking in phytoplankton for nourishment as well as removing pollutants and acting as bio-indicators of aquatic health in the inner harbour.

The arrival of the mussels marks the beginning of the unveiling of many elements brought to six downtown projects through an innovative design partnership between Mana whenua, Auckland Council and Auckland Transport.

The textured surfaces of Te Wānanga have been designed to encourage the attachment of seaweeds, barnacles and periwinkles and the ropes of green-lipped mussels installed today, signalling a collective intent to improve water quality and biodiversity.

The design partnership sees this innovative work raising public consciousness of natural solutions to created problems, placing these solutions into the most urbanised part of Tāmaki Makaurau and Aotearoa.

Dr Jarrod Walker (Nga Puhi), a marine scientist and technical advisor to Mana whenua has helped deliver the aspirations of Mana whenua as kaitiaki of Te Waitematā. Dr Walker also worked with Richelle Kahui-McConell who recently passed away, but he says her memory and work will not be forgotten.

He says: "Te Waitematā is a taonga tuku iho, and it should be treated as such. Unfortunately, this has not been the case historically. Today, Mana whenua wish to enhance the mauri of Te Waitematā and this project has provided an opportunity to develop practices and methods, grounded in Mātauranga Maori to move toward enhancing the health of the marine environment.

"Mana whenua's name for this area is 'Te Wānanga' a place of learning. Mana whenua gifted the name to signify that this space will be an area where people can learn about Mana whenua's deep connection with Te Waitematā and Tāmaki Makaurau, and for visitors to develop an appreciation for the harbour and to understand that we all need to care for the harbour and the marine environment.

"Mana whenua see the use of kūtai in this space as a step in the right direction to address both current and historic environmental issues impacting the mauri of Te Waitematā. This approach is just one of many programmes Mana whenua are implementing to regenerate the mauri of Te Waitematā," says Dr Walker.

Marcus Cameron, a project scientist on the trial and a senior aquatic scientist with Tonkin+Taylor describes the remarkable water filtering capacity of mussels.

"A single mature mussel can filter up to 150 to 200 litres of seawater a day taking in phytoplankton for nourishment as well as removing pollutants. They effectively act as bio-indicators of aquatic health, helping us monitor for any unwanted invasive species in the water," he says.

The trial began in 2020. Around 100m of seeded mussel lines, weighing approximately 600kg were delivered from the Firth of Thames where North Island Mussels Limited have their operation.

They arrived at Kelly Tarlton's last June for the start of the trial, where they were immersed in fresh water for 90 minutes as a biosecurity measure to kill any hitchhiking Mediterranean fan worm, invasive sea squirt and Asian kelp.

They then went into a tank of salt water overnight, so they were not stressed when relocated to the harbour. They range in size from 70-110mm and are about 18 months old - an age when mussels are often harvested for eating - but these mussels are not destined for the table.

The following day the seeded ropes were transported to the Maritime Museum where they were blessed by representatives of ngā Mana Whenua o Tāmaki Makaurau.

Divers attached the kūtai ropes to two waka floats and three pile wraps and assisted in the hanging of the ropes from six pontoons in the Maritime Museum and Ferry Basin. The final batch of kūtai was attached to these structures in late June 2020.

The 11-month trial was a success, and now 38 seeded mussel lines have made Te Wānanga their new home.

Programme Director Downtown Eric van Essen says: "This outcome captures the potential for Te Wānanga to encourage deeper understanding and appreciation of our different ecosystems and strengthen a living connection between land and sea in Auckland."

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Divers have attached 38 seeded mussel lines to the underside of Te Wānanga, the new public space which reaches out over the water in Quay Street.

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About Litter Intelligence

We cannot improve what we do not measure. Litter Intelligence is a long-term programme that collects litter data, provides powerful insights about the problem, and inspires widespread action for solutions. Led by New Zealand charity Sustainable Coastlines, the programme works in close collaboration with the Ministry for the Environment, Department of Conservation and Statistics New Zealand.

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We cannot improve what we do not measure. Litter Intelligence is a long-term programme that collects litter data, provides powerful insights about the problem, and inspires widespread action for solutions. Led by New Zealand charity Sustainable Coastlines, the programme works in close collaboration with the Ministry for the Environment, Department of Conservation and Statistics New Zealand.

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Green Marine is the leading environmental certification program for North America's maritime industry. It is a voluntary initiative that helps its participants to improve their environmental performance beyond regulations. Green Marine targets key environmental issues related to air, water and soil quality, biodiversity protection, and community relations.

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Green Marine is the leading environmental certification program for the North American maritime industry.

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400 Pounds Of Waste Per Hour: How Waste Is Dealt With On An Aircraft Carrier

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Sign up | Miro | The Visual Workspace for Innovation

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Miro is a visual workspace for innovation where teams manage projects, design products, and build the future together. Join 60M+ users from around the world.

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Discover effective zero waste programmes and initiatives at WasteNothing.co.nz. Learn about recycling, composting, and reducing waste. Take action today.

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The Love NZ Soft Plastic Recycling Scheme enables New Zealanders to recycle plastic wrappers and bags.

It is a Government accredited voluntary product stewardship programme; one of three accredited schemes run by The Packaging Forum.

The scheme is funded by members, with additional support from Countdown, The Warehouse and Huckleberry who provide recycling facilities.

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Soft Plastics Recycling Programme - The Packaging Forum

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The Love NZ Soft Plastic Recycling Scheme enables New Zealanders to recycle plastic wrappers and bags. It is a Government accredited voluntary product stewardship programme; one of three accredited schemes run by The Packaging Forum. The scheme is funded by members, with additional support from Countdown, The Warehouse and Huckleberry who provide recycling facilities.

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Built on Bigbelly's fundamentally better bin, the Smart hides waste in plain sight with its enclosed Chute disposal interface. The Smart is equipped with sensors that monitor and report fullness level, collection activity, bin status, and GPS location; all information is communicated to Bigbelly's CLEAN™ Management Console. With an inner bin capacity of 50 gallons (189 L), the Smart holds 1.7x more waste than a traditional bin. The Smart can be deployed standalone, or combined with any other Bigbelly bin to form a multi-stream kiosk.

Download Smart Product Sheet

Want to learn more about the Bigbelly Smart? Download the product sheet for tech specs and more.

Download Product Sheet

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Australia recycling scheme

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Driving value from recycling Working closely with our partners, TOMRA Cleanaway is driving value through recycling by delivering convenient and accessible container return networks. Learn more about us TOMRA CLEANAWAY - EXECUTIVE TEAM Experts in waste and resource recovery

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Method Recycling - Recycling Bins Made Beautiful

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Introducing Method InSight

Method's new IoT solution for waste, Method InSight, gives you bin-by-bin data to help your organisation cut waste.

Learn more

Good Design Should Last

That's why we've extended the warranty on our bins from three to five years.

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About Method

We enable any space to waste less, and recycle more - beautifully.

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How Method helped ANIMATED INDUSTRIE HERE
recycle more and waste less, beautifully

At Method we're lucky to work alongside leading businesses to achieve their waste goals

Method's beautiful bins allow the sometimes daunting task of having four waste options to be manageable and scalable across our ever expanding offices.

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Good design is not just functional; it is pleasurable for the consumer. With Method bins we can do our part in the workplace with ease.

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Method bins are easily moved around the office space, making it simple to change where the bins are placed based on feedback from staff.

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Create recycling stations that inspire action.

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With the growing contamination fees clear signage can help you to reduce costs and improve recycling quality

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Method Recycling | Office Recycling Bins Made Beautiful NZ

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Designed to be out in the open, our award-winning recycling bins help organisations to divert waste from landfill to make a visible difference | Method NZ.

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Data Collection

Those who work and play on the ocean care deeply about its health and future. Seafarers, members of the public, recreational sailors, professional mariners, fishermen, surfers, and divers all have unique access to the coast, littoral waters, the vastness of the 'blue water' ocean. Anyone with access to the beach can keep an eye on its health. As a community, we can help map and identify pollution simply by taking a picture through the Eyesea App. Images are important because they are quick and easy to take, and because they have a strong impact.

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Those who work and play on the ocean care deeply about its health and future. Seafarers, members of the public, recreational sailors, professional mariners, fishermen, surfers, and divers all have unique access to the coast, littoral waters, the vastness of the 'blue water' ocean.

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Each year, 1.4 trillion beverage containers are used around the world, representing a vast amount of material that can be collected and reused or recycled. If this is done in the right way, we can help protect our planet by minimizing plastic pollution and litter, conserving precious resources like energy and water, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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Each year, 1.4 trillion beverage containers are used around the world, representing a vast amount of material that can be collected and reused or recycled. If this is done in the right way, we can help protect our planet by minimizing plastic pollution and litter, conserving precious resources like energy and water, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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Devonport Waste Training and Implementation Plan

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Devonport Waste Management Plan V1 5 Final October 

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Easily create surveys and polls to collect customer feedback, measure employee satisfaction, and organize team events.

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One bin - several recyclables. The mixed recycling service allows you to place a variety of suitable recyclables into one bin. Most regions across the country accept:

PET clear bottles

HDPE clear and coloured bottles

PP bottles and containers

Steel and aluminium cans

while some regions also accept glass bottles and glass jars.
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All businesses, big or small, and the perfect initial recycling service to start your sustainability journey.
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For paper, cardboard and mixed recycling needs. Plastic film and ploystyrene recycling also available.

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