198 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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Poll: Is it ok to regift something that you have been given?

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Is it ok to regift something that you have been given?
  • 78.5% Yes! It's better to regift what I don't need
    78.5% Complete
  • 21.5% No. It's the thought and effort that matters
    21.5% Complete
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Do you think you know the answer? Simply 'Like' this post and we'll post the answer in the comments below at 2pm on the day!

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9 days ago

Poll: 🗑️ Would you be keen to switch to a fortnightly rubbish collection, or do you prefer things as they are?

The Team from Neighbourly.co.nz

Aucklanders, our weekly rubbish collections are staying after councillors voted to scrap a proposed trial of fortnightly pick-ups.

We want to hear from you: would you be keen to switch to a fortnightly rubbish collection, or do you prefer things as they are?

Keen for the details? Read up about the scrapped collection trial here.

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🗑️ Would you be keen to switch to a fortnightly rubbish collection, or do you prefer things as they are?
  • 84.4% Same!
    84.4% Complete
  • 15.6% Would have liked to try something different
    15.6% Complete
486 votes