$40,000 awarded to minimise waste

Tauranga City Council is supporting five community organisations to reduce the amount of waste that gets sent to landfill through more than $40,000 in waste minimisation grants.
This year's successful Resource Wise Community Fund applicants will use the grants to kick-start their waste minimisation projects, which include food rescue; home worm farming; education workshops; and event waste stations.

Environment Committee Chair Steve Morris says the funded projects showed how small changes could make a big difference to the amount of waste Tauranga produces as a city.
'The idea behind the Resource Wise Community Fund is to support our community to find new ways to help reduce waste, and inspire and encourage others to recognise that disposal should only be a last resort.
'We had a huge response to our call for funding applications and narrowing them down to five wasn't easy because of the outstanding quality of the projects on offer.
'We're extremely lucky in Tauranga to have such passionate and motivated community groups, and people who are committed to making a difference to our city.”
The Resource Wise Community Fund provides grants of up to $20,000 to individuals, community groups, businesses, Iwi/Maori organisations and education providers, who want to deliver waste minimisation projects within Tauranga.
The projects supported in this year's grants round were:

  • a project to undertake ‘food rescue' and donate it to those in need, delivered by Good Neighbour
  • education workshops to reduce single-use plastic run by Maungaarangi Kindergarten and Whanau Centre
  • a chicken coop for Papamoa Playcentre to divert organic waste from landfill and educate whanau and tamariki
  • innovative event waste stations delivered by Waste Wizards
  • leasing worm farms to households and businesses by Why Waste.

The next Resource Wise Community Fund round will open later this year and close in May 2019.
For more information, email sustainability.waste@tauranga.govt.nz

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