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187 days ago

♻️ Soft Plastic Recycling at Grey Lynn Community Centre! 🛍️🌱

Christopher Nolan-Downs from Grey Lynn Community Centre

Did you know your soft plastics can become planter boxes, fence posts, and more? 💚

Bring your bread bags, chip packets, frozen food bags, bubble wrap and other soft plastics to Grey Lynn Community Centre and give them a new life!

✅ YES – Recycle These:
• Bread bags
• Snack and chip packets
• Frozen food bags
• Cereal and dairy wrap
• Toilet paper wrappers
• Confectionery wrap
• Courier bags
• Bubble wrap
• Pet food bags
• Garden potting mix bags
… and more!

🚫 NO – These contaminate recycling:
• Compostable or degradable plastic
• Face masks and gloves
• RAT test kits
• Food or drink containers
• Foil or metal items

💡 Take the Scrunch Test: If you can scrunch it into a ball, we can recycle it!

📍 Find out more and locate drop-off points: recycling.kiwi.nz/store-locator

Let’s reduce landfill together – one soft plastic at a time!

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1 day ago

Neighbourhood Challenge: Who Can Crack This One? ⛓️‍💥❔

The Riddler from The Neighbourly Riddler

What has a head but no brain?

Do you think you know the answer? Simply 'Like' this post if you know the answer and the big reveal will be posted in the comments at 2pm on the day!

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3 days ago

Poll: Are Kiwis allergic to “exuberance”? 🥝

The Team from Neighbourly.co.nz

In The Post’s opinion piece on the developments set to open across Aotearoa in 2026, John Coop suggests that, as a nation, we’re “allergic to exuberance.”

We want to know: Are we really allergic to showing our excitement?

Is it time to lean into a more optimistic view of the place we call home? As big projects take shape and new opportunities emerge, perhaps it’s worth asking whether a little more confidence (and enthusiasm!) could do us some good.

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Are Kiwis allergic to “exuberance”? 🥝
  • 40.6% Yes
    40.6% Complete
  • 34.2% Maybe?
    34.2% Complete
  • 25.2% No
    25.2% Complete
520 votes
13 hours ago

Suellen's Sweet Christmas Tradition

Charles Upham Retirement Village

The festive season is the perfect excuse to indulge your sweet tooth and to bring something truly special to the Christmas table. For Suellen’s family, that showstopper is Croquembouche !

An impressive tower of cream puffs bound together with delicate spun sugar, this classic dessert is a favourite at weddings across France and Italy and a much-loved Christmas tradition at home.

Click read more for the full recipe.

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