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Campaign partners and supporters

The Reduce Your Rubbish campaign is brought to you by the Ministry for the Environment in partnership with your regional council.

Ministry for the Environment Auckland Regional Council
Environment Canterbury Environment Southland
Environment Waikato Greater Wellington
Hawke's Bay Regional Council Horizons.mw
Marlborough District Council Northland Regional Council
Otago Regional Council Taranaki Regional Council

The Reduce Your Rubbish campaign would like to thank the following organisations for their support:

  • Colenso BBDOColenso BBDO
    The Reduce Your Rubbish campaign would not have been possible without the support and assistance of the advertising company, Colenso BBDO. The Colenso team has a proud and successful record of communicating with New Zealanders on social and environmental issues.
     
  • ecostoreecostore
    For 9 years ecostore have been providing plant based household cleaners, organic gardening goods and natural skin and body care products... all proudly made in Aotearoa... New Zealand. ecostore are contributing a selection of their eco friendlier products for the prize package for the Reduce Your Rubbish Challenge.
     
  • Fisher & PaykelFisher & Paykel
    Every year Fisher & Paykel takes back around 25,000 used appliances, recycling around 1,600 tonnes of material such as aluminium, stainless steel, copper, steel and plastics. Packaging is the biggest source of recovered material - 75,000 pieces per year - with some packaging re-usable up to four times.
     
  • Progressive EnterprisesProgressive Enterprises
    The Progressive Enterprises supermarket chain aims to reduce the number of plastic bags taken home by shoppers by nearly 50 per cent. Pack 7 is an initiative by to encourage staff to pack seven items in customers’ shopping bags. With the average number of items packed currently at 3.8, there is a potential saving of nearly 50 per cent in the number of bags taken home by shoppers. Pack 7 operates in all Foodtown, Woolworths, Price Chopper, Countdown and Big Fresh supermarkets nation-wide and is part of the company’s involvement in the Ministry of Environment’s Reduce Your Rubbish campaign.
     
  • VertexVertex Pacific
    Every year Vertex turns around 13 million recycled plastic milk bottles into a range of useful products such as compost bins, culvert pipes, Agchem and oil containers, recycling bins and even concrete mixers. That's some 400 tonnes of plastic that is being diverted from our landfills each year and turned into useful products.
 
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