The finalists for the 2016 NZI Sustainable Business Network Awards are:Airbnb Community Impact Award
Auckland Council
Counties Manukau Health
Good Neighbour Aotearoa Trust
Kai Carrier
Metal Art
Packaging Forum Inc
Sustainability Trust
TerraCycle
Ricoh Mega Efficiency Innovation Award
Asaleo Care
Ecotricity
Energy and Technical Services Ltd
Method Recycling
My Car Your Rental
TerraCycle
For the new Sealord Pouch Recycling Programme, the company has partnered with TerraCycle to offer Kiwis an innovative recycling option.Consumers can now collect the pouch packaging used in Sealord Tuna Pockets and Tuna Express ranges, clean them and post them to TerraCycle for free. The materials will then be used to make brand-new plastic goods, while collectors will receive two cents for every pouch they collect.
“Our partnership with TerraCycle gives consumers the option to divert this product packaging from landfill. So it is a win-win on taste and recyclability,” said Craig Harrison, senior brand manager, Sealord NZ.
Airbnb Community Impact Award
Auckland Council
Counties Manukau Health
Good Neighbour Aotearoa Trust
Kai Carrier
Metal Art
Packaging Forum Inc
Sustainability Trust
TerraCycle
Ricoh Mega Efficiency Innovation Award
Asaleo Care
Ecotricity
Energy and Technical Services Ltd
Method Recycling
My Car Your Rental
TerraCycle
The initiative, started by recycling company TerraCycle, is being used to promote the recycling of previously un-recyclable oral care items.
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TerraCycle general manager Jean Bailliard said residents could save up their used oral care items and support their local school.
Enter global waste recycling innovator TerraCycle. TerraCycle is working with Nespresso on a new initiative. This will break down the aluminium in the pods for re-use. It lines up with Nespresso’s commitment to the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative for end-to-end reusability of the metal.
Nespresso is paying the shipping cost to send used pods to the nearest TerraCycle collection station. It will work via NZ Post, another SBN member.
Recycling is important to Roz Liddell but drinking coffee is not.
Even so, when the Lodge Floral Studio owner received a letter from Nespresso asking if her boutique business in Waitara would like to become a collection point for people to recycle their coffee pods, she jumped at the chance.
Nespresso began contacting garden centres and florists to ask if they'd become collection points. "I literally rang them that afternoon and said I'm in."
Nespresso supplies the collection boxes, which each hold 20kg of pods. "These [boxes] are picked up by courier post. We get our pre-packs all sent with courier stickers so it doesn't cost us anything. They go to TerraCycle."
About three boxes are filled each month at Lodge Floral Studio. Once they're sent away the elements of the capsules are separated and turned into garden furniture like chairs and garden bricks.
"I've always thought before you throw something away, what can you do with it to reuse it or can you recycle it," she said.
