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Zero Waste Kirikiriroa community Drop-off points have launched!

Western Community Centre is the first to open its Community Drop-off Point. It's a place for the things that can't go in your kerbside recycling.

What you can drop off :

🔋Batteries | Pūhiko:
yes. Household lithium batteries
No. Batteries that are damaged, swollen, leaking or hot, or that have an odd smell. You'll need to take these directly to The Resource Recovery Centre on Lincoln Road

🎧 E-waste | Ipara:
Yes. cords, mobile phones, remotes, tablets, laptops, headphones, iPods and MP3 players
No. Larger items like whiteware and TVs. Lincoln Road can take these.

🧴Soft plastics | Kirihou ngohengohe:
Yes. Clean, and dry bread bags, salad and frozen food bags, cereal bags, snack bags, chip packets, courier packs, bubble wrap
No. Compostable packaging.

👕 Textiles | Papanga:
Yes. Clean, t-shirts, dresses, skirts, pants, jackets, pyjamas, socks, sheets, pillowcases, towels, curtains, fabric scraps
No. Clothes still good enough to sell, or rehome.

🫙 Lids | Taupoki:
Yes. plastic lids (1, 2 + 5) and metal lids

Western Community Centre, 46 Hyde Avenue, Nawton.
Drop-off hours: 8.30am–5.30pm, weekdays.

Ngā mihi nui to Neil and the team at Western Community Centre for being the first to host, and to Hamilton City Council for making this partnership with our community happen.

To celebrate Te Wiki o te Reo Māori, we're giving you a sneak peek at some BTS of our next launch... 👀

Our new zero waste signage is getting a reo Māori makeover! Soon you'll see our bins, stations and spaces labelled with kupu Māori.

Swipe through for kupu you'll start seeing around Kirikiriroa 👉 How many did you already know?

A front page boom for the bittern!

It’s always pretty heart-warming to see a critically-endangered bird make the front page of a newspaper.

Today it was the matuku-hūrepo, or Australasian Bittern, and two of its biggest supporters, Go Eco educator Paul Murray and Love Bittern’s Wendy Ambury in the Waikato Times.

The story from Charlotte Graham caps off a big week for the matuku, and Paul and Wendy, who have been out all around the Waikato at marae, and in communities and schools teaching the art of listening and recording the booms of the matuku in preparation for The Great Matuku-Hūrepo Muster, which starts on September 18.

Matuku-hūrepo are secretive. Most people will never see one. But in spring, the lovelorn males make an extraordinary booming call hoping to attract a mate.

During the muster, volunteers around the country stand in wetlands and count the booms, providing a vital check in on the dwindling population. There’s less than 1000 of these wetland birds.

https://www.waikatotimes.co.nz/nz-news/361079958/wendys-been-bitten-bittern-bug

For more information about the muster and sign up: goeco.org.nz/muster

Wendy’s been bitten by the Bittern bug Waikato volunteers are being urged to join the Australisian Bittern muster as fewer than 1000 of the native birds remain after poor water quality has left them starving.

Last chance on this one. Applications close early tomorrow.

We're looking for a Project Coordinator to lead our food rescue operation and help connect it with He Manawaroa; a growing kai partnership between Go Eco and The Serve Charitable Trust in Kirikiriroa.

This is a hands-on role for someone who wants to see rescued food move from supermarkets and donors, through collection and storage, into the hands of whānau and community. You'd co-ordinate the volunteers, build the relationships, and help the wider kai system work better for the people it serves.

32 hours a week, based in Kirikiriroa.

All of it in service of reducing food waste and improving whānau access to kai.

Apply on Seek here: https://nz.seek.com/Waikato-Environment-Centre-(Go-Eco)-jobs?jobId=94492010&type=standard