Regional Zero Waste Shopping Guides and Map
Zero Waste on the Coromandel Peninsula (including Thames-Coromandel and Hauraki Districts)
01/10/2017
Preaching to “the Converted” # 3: Ashlee Beaumont
31/10/2017
Before we do a talk anywhere in Aotearoa New Zealand, we always take time to suss out the local area and ask ourselves, "if we lived here, how would we make our zero waste lifestyle work?" By answering this question (through research, community connections, and persistent shop-hopping), we can then provide local tips and tricks at each of our talks. Rather than leaving all this research in our own heads, we've compiled these Regional Zero Waste Shopping Guides for locals to refer back to (and also to add to - if you let us know things we've missed, we can add them in!)
Click on your region below to go to your local guide and begin sussing the zero waste shopping options around you, including viewing it all on an interactive map!
We love it when you share our guides with others - please do so by sharing the link to our website , rather than copying and pasting the content of the guides to reproduce elsewhere.
A note about the guides
We created regional, rather than city or town, guides because we recognise that in some parts of New Zealand (particularly outside urban centres) people leave their immediate area to get supplies further afield. So a regional perspective is more useful.
To avoid burning lots of fossil fuels, we recommend strategic shopping. If you know you're going to a nearby town one day (say, for a doctor’s appointment, a bigger shop, a visit, or some other reason), and you can see you could do with topping up some items that you can’t get locally packaging-free, then take the opportunity to get that item when you're already going out of town. Combining trips and doing multiple things in one go, rather than driving back and forth for different purposes, is an important part of the habit changes that are part of the zero waste lifestyle.
Remember too that you don’t necessarily have to rely on shops alone to get items in smaller centres. Starting (or joining) a co-op that buys items in bulk to share amongst a group of people is another really great idea. Where we know about co-ops, we try to add these into our guides, as well as other community initiatives, like community gardens and crop swaps. If we’ve missed some good ones, let us know (the key thing is that the kaupapa in some way supports people to produce less waste).
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Well done. Learnt much through your demo-thanks all the best for the rest of your travel.
Tēnā koe Monty! Pai ana te tutaki i a koe 🙂 Mauri ora!
Hi guys I know you are heading to Picton for Thursday night, see you there! Would love you to check us out we are a new little and local organic wholefood fruit and vegetable, eco living store just reopening at our home of 58 Hampden Street Picton. Check out our Facebook page Sustainance Picton.
Can’t wait to hear what you have to say at our environment hub.
Safe travels
Rebekah and Steve
Posted on Farm Fresh Milk NZ Facebook page as of today (04/04/2018)
“FARM FRESH MILK NZ
“Well the difficult decision has been made Next Wednesday 11th April will be the final day of supplying Raw Milk from
Farm Fresh Milk. It definitely hasn’t been the easiest decision to make as it has been a big part of our life for the last 4yrs
We would like to sincerely thank all our loyal customers that have supported us during this time and we are going to miss catching up with you on your visits.
“Hopefully we will catch up with as many of you as possible over the next week
“Hayden Gillian and the Farm Fresh team”
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