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Recipients named for $500,000 ‘zero waste’ fund
Media release
18 July 2013
Recipients named for $500,000 ‘zero waste’ fund
A project to divert 20,000 tonnes of food waste from landfill every year has funding from a new Auckland Council grant scheme supporting ‘zero waste’.
Eco Stock Ltd, based in Wiri, was awarded $50,000 from the first ever round of Auckland Council’s Waste Minimisation and Innovation Fund, with a $500,000 pool for projects.
The grant was the highest awarded, and will go to equipment that converts food waste into stock feed.
“Eco Stock diverts around 42,000 tonnes of food waste from landfill every year,” says Councillor Noelene Raffills, who led the hearing process for the council’s Waste Management and Minimisation Plan (WMMP), adopted in 2012.
“The purchase of this plant will help the business increase its contribution to waste minimisation in a significant way.”
A total of 47 businesses, community groups, iwi/Maori organisations and educational institutions were successful in the April funding round.
Among the successful applicants was the Project Litefoot Trust, awarded $35,700 to help implement a waste minimisation programme in community sports clubs throughout the region.
A study into a recycling network in the business precinct of East Tamaki, and an initiative to have waste minimisation systems on marae each received around $10,000.
A number of applications responded to one of the actions of the WMMP, which is to develop a resource recovery network in the region.
“This fund gives opportunities for people to make something of their great ideas, and help our region reach our aspiration of ‘zero waste’.”
The fund is one of the first actions to emerge from the WMMP.
The fund is provided from the Waste Levy, administered by the Ministry for the Environment. Recipients need to show they have resources to meet at least half of the cost of the funding requested.
The $500,000 fund for 2013/14 will be disbursed through funding rounds in October and April.
1. Small
grantsApplicant Project
name Purpose of funding Funding
allocation A'oga Fa'a Samoa Working
towards sustainability at the A’oga Fa’a
Samoa Funding to support the Aoga's strategy to
become more sustainable by introducing reusable nappies to
be used at the
school. $3,525.00 Sancta Maria
College Reducing our waste to
landfill Funding to help create a system to sort
organic, landfill and recycling rubbish and reduce waste to
landfill. $3,410.00 Alfriston
College Alfriston College school wide waste
reduction and reuse project Funding for bins for
organic and recyclable rubbish and worms to process organic
waste. $3,437.65 Falepipi he
Mafola Niuean Handcraft Group Inc Lakaaga ki Mua
(Next level of living) Funding to help raise
awareness of the importance of waste minimisation within the
Niuean community through visits to other
groups. $500.00 Te Atu
Enua CLOVER project Funding for equipment to
make useful household items out of discarded wood pallets
and to renovate discarded
furniture. $4,744.13 Cameron
Leisure Limited ISO 14001 Contribution
towards purchase of separate bins for waste materials from
the facility to work towards the ISO 14001 environmental
award . $1,225.18 Waiheke High
School Recycling
Stations Contribution towards waste
stations around the school which have clear signage and
separate bins for waste, recycling and organic matter.
$3,522.00 Glenfield
College Organic waste minimisation ay Glenfield
College Contribution towards purchase of equipment
to enable organic waste produced by the school to be
composted. $1,400.00 One Tree Hill
College One Tree Hill College Waste Recycling
Contribution towards cost of a chicken run, compost
bin materials, and a worm farm to divert organic material
from landfill. $1,002.00 YMCA Mt
Albert OSCAR Worm
Farm Funding for worm farms to
take organic foodwaste from the after school care and
holiday programmes at the YMCA. The worm farms would also be
used to process food waste from staff working in the
office. $250.16 Warkworth Primary
School Worm bath, compost bins to nourish edible
garden produce Funding for the
school to become a WasteWise efficient school through
completing a waste audit and also to create a worm bath and
utilize compost bins to encourage recycling of food scraps
and some paper material. Finally, to educate children and
their families on making better choices about how food is
brought to school. $1,096.00 Flat
Bush School Flat Bush School
composting Funding to purchase waste stations and
compost bins to divert food and greenwaste from
landfill. $267.41 St Francis
Kindergarten and Childcare Centre Ltd A gift for our
garden our friends and
ourselves Funding to support
the project which involves giving talks and running
workshops with the community and children to educate them
about the benefits of recycling organic waste into compost
for gardens. Also, to purchase containers and seeds to make
vegetable box gardens with people who come to talks so as to
provide instant gardens. Finally, to purchase 8 Hungry Bins
for the kindergarten to divert it’s organic waste from
landfill. $1,051.84 Auckland
Kindergarten Association Working Towards Zero Waste
at Head Office Contribution
towards purchasing equipment for composting of organic waste
in AKA office, and to recycle plastics and paper. Also to
educate staff and change waste management behaviours.
$545.00 Weymouth
Primary Weymouth Primary Whanau Waste Minimisation
Project Contribution towards
purchase of additional worm farms to supplement those the
school already in place
. $1,600.00 The Prema Charitable
Trust Zero Organic Waste at Kawai
Purapura Funding to support
purchase of worm farms and bokashi systems. The resulting
compost will be used to nourish gardens and orchards located
on the premises. $3,262.00 Waiheke
Primary School Recycling Restart Funding to
support establishing and sustaining effective systems that
will educate staff and students to recycle properly. This
would include purchasing a three-bin system for organics,
recycling and refuse, and setting up worm farms and compost
bins to process
organics. $830.81 Flanshaw Road
School Flanshaw Compost Extension
Project Funding to support expansion of the
school’s composting system to create different types of
compost. $2,112.88 Horan Design
Ltd Eastern Bays Mums Recycle
Sale Contribution towards the facilitation of local
families selling their used toys, clothes, household goods
through "Recycle Sale" market events.
$3,500.00 Faculty of Creative Arts
, Ngā Pūkenga mō Toi-Auaha , Manukau Institute of
Technology Creative Arts Reuse
Centre Funding to support
development of a Creative Arts Reuse Centre out customised
shipping container. $4,500.00 Bea
Lorimer The great plastic
plan Funding to support initiation of a pilot
project to train two people in the production of upcycled
plastic goods. $3,120.00 Reclaim
Ltd NZ Recycling Week Funding to support the
NZ Recycling Week
project. $2,000.00 Otara Network
Action Committee Charitable Trust Otara Network
Action Committee Charitable
Trust Contribution towards the
project which includes educational sessions on waste
minimisation, community waste audit to gain an understanding
of how Otara Whanau currently dispose of waste and some
zero waste
events. $2,000.00
2.
Medium grantsApplicant Project
name Project Funding
allocation Warkworth Wellsford
Hospice Resource recovery feasibility study
Funding to support a feasibility study to assess
viability of a resource recovery
facility. $18,760 Grey Lynn Park
Festival Trust Grey Lynn Park Festival
Projects Contribution towards funding the Grey Lynn
park festival projects such as front and back end systems
for minimising waste at the
event $10,000.00 CRN
Trust Capacity building for the Auckland Resource
Recovery Network Funding to support a year long
programme of workshops and site tours of some of CRN's
flagship resource recovery sites to build capacity of
organisations wanting to operate in the resource recovery
area. $16,890.00 Friends of Ambury
Farm & Foreshore (Umbrella: Mangere Bridge Residents &
Ratepayers) Mangere Bridge Village WasteWise
Initiative (MBVWI) Funding to support a 'whole of
community' approach that inspires our 2500 households,
village businesses and other local organisations to work
together to make their area zero-waste. This will be
achieved through community engagement, education and
behaviour change
campaigns. $10,079.27 Greater East
Tamaki Business Association East Tamaki Commercial
Recycling Feasibility Study Contribution towards the
project which includes investigating the feasibility of an
active recycling programme in the East Tamaki business
precinct with an ultimate goal to create a recycling
network between businesses in East Tamaki that minimises
waste management costs, and reduces waste to
landfill. $9,517.00 Green Building
Council Waste management in residential
construction Funding to support the engagement of
the residential construction sector in Auckland in waste
minimisation and mangement practices, by providing an
education tool that speaks to on site staff- those who will
be key in reducing construction waste to landfill.
$21,500.00 Urban Ecoliving
Charitable Trust The Big Picture
books Funding to support the "Big Picture" book
series, and to take the exhibit to classes in
schools. $10,495 Rekindle Auckland
Rekindle Pilot Funding to support establishment of a
pilot site, completion of a feasibility study and business
. $22,880.00 Unitec Institute of
Technology Zeroing in on Waste in the Student
Village Funding to support establishing effective
recycling and composting services for the Unitec Student
Village, which provides accomodation for 350 students.
$15,478.23 Diabetes Projects
Trust Refugee Waste Action Workshops Funding
to support the delivery of experiential learning sessions
for 100 recently settled refugee families in
Auckland. $10,274.26 Ngati Whatua
Orakei Para Kore ki Tamaki Contribution
towards setting up waste minimisation systems at
maraes. $6,703.20 MPHS Resource
Recovery feasibility study and education
pilot Funding to support a feasibility study to
assess viability of a resource recovery
facility. $10,804.25 Auckland City
Mission Prison Recycling
Project Contribution towards the project which
includes sorting, washing and repairing poor condition
clothes so that they can be on-sold by the Mission rather
than being sent to landfill. The project will be delivered
together with Mt Eden Prison .
$10,000.00 Ngati
Rehua Feasibility study for the establishement of a
resource recovery centre on Great Barrier
Island Funding to support a feasibility study to
assess viability of a resource recovery
facility. $24,000.00 Counties
Manukau DHB Worm farms for hospital food
waste Contribution towards the purchase of worm
farms to compost the organic food waste from the hospital.
This would contribute to the overall goal of reducing
Counties Manukau District Health Board’s carbon footprint.
$20,000.00 Migrant Action
Trust Community Resource Recovery and Education
Project Contribution towards educational training
modules to build capacity for community resource
recovery. $20,000.00 Waiuku
Community Workshop Trust Waiuku Total Waste
Recyling Funding to support a feasibility study to
assess viability of a resource recovery
facility. $7,500.00 Ecomatters Wash
Against Waste Project Contribution towards
construction of a Wash Against Waste trailer that contains
all of the materials and accessories required to run a WAW
stall at an event.
$23,800.00 Sustainable
Coastlines Waste Minimisation Workshops Pilot,
Presenter Training and Awareness Campaign Funding to
support delivery of workshops on the waterfront as a means
to change behaviour and raise awareness in the community
around waste minimisation.
$22,500.00 Ngati Whatua Orakei
Whai Maia ATAMIRA Maori in the City 2013 waste
management and education module Contribution towards
the project which includes integration of environmental
sustainability elements into all aspects of the ATAMIRA
Maori event's management and production values. This would
serve as a template for all of their events in the future.
$10,000.00
3.
Large grantsApplicant Project Funding
allocation Project Litefoot
Trust LiteClub Funding
to support implementation of a waste minimisation programme
in more community sports clubs within Auckland.
$35,700.00 Ecostock Food
Waste Manual Sorting Contribution towards the
purchase of equipment that would allow mixed (pre-consumer)
food waste, and mixed packaged and unpackaged food waste and
sort it effectively for use as high quality stock
feed. $50,000.00 Crosspower
Ministries Trust Southside Recycling (Trash
Mob) Funding to support a trial and reporting for a
resource recovery
facility. $35,000.00 Appleseed
Recycling Trust Appleseed Recycling Funding
to support a resource recovery
trial. $25,000.00
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