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Month: April 2019

6-Monthly Transport Footprint (5 October 2018-5 April 2019)
18/04/2019

6-Monthly Transport Footprint (5 October 2018-5 April 2019)

Six months ago we gave up our car in order to reduce The Rubbish Trip’s transport emissions footprint. We’ve since started logging all our transport into Catalyst’s free ACE Carbon Calculator to calculate our transport emissions. We’ve created a handy infographic (below) as our first 6-monthly report-back. We really […]

Thoughts and musings
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by Liam & Hannah
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What to Do About Single-Use or ‘Avoidable’ Plastics and Plastic Packaging?
10/04/2019

What to Do About Single-Use or ‘Avoidable’ Plastics and Plastic Packaging?

*** This post was updated in October 2019 to reflect recent waste policy developments*** Key Points The zero waste approach to plastics reduction focuses on replacing single-use plastics and plastic packaging with reusable alternatives (rather than single-use disposables made of other materials). The New Zealand Government […]

Be a Tirading Kiwi
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by Liam & Hannah
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