Bay Harbour: August 17, 2016

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News
Putting waste to good use
• By Annabelle Dick
PROJECT LYTTELTON is
looking to install a waste park
in a bid to curb the amount of
rubbish coming from the area.
Project Lyttelton waste
matters champion Sarah
Pritchett said the group is
looking at ways to expand
on waste minimisation
activities.
“We already have a community
garden that’s been
going for a while. As part of
that we have worm farms and
a rubbish reduction scheme at
the Lyttelton Farmers Market
because the bins overflow,” she
said.
The group installed a
recycling bin, landfill bin and
organics bin at the weekly
market.
The organic waste then goes
to the community garden to
divert it from landfill and now
the group wants to take it a
step further.
The waste park scheme is a
community-based recycling
programme where plastics are
recycled to create new useful
objects.
“Most of our plastic gets sent
to China but instead we want
to collect it ourselves and recycle
it at a local level and turn
them into things like plastic
bricks that you can turn into
plastic furniture,” Ms Pritchett
said.
The group needs machinery
Fate of Yew Cottage still uncertain
THE FATE of Akaroa’s Yew
Cottage is still uncertain as a
report recommending the sale
was withdrawn due to a lack of
public consultation.
A staff report on city
council-owned cottage
recommended the heritage
building be sold and the
KEEPING IT GREEN: The proposed space for Project Lyttelton’s waste park.
Inset: Sarah Pritchett
including shredders, an oven
and moulds to get the project
up and running.
The group also want to use
it as an education resource
to teach children and adults
about how valuable a resource
it is and how to turn it into
something new using 3D
printing.
“Plastic is a really good
resource but we see it as rubbish
because we don’t have the
Akaroa-Wairewa Community
Board met yesterday to make a
decision.
But property consultants
failed to realise that the cottage
is a strategic asset and public
consultation was needed as
part of the report.
There hasn’t been any
capacity to recycle a lot of it in
New Zealand. It’s an amazing
resource and we can do amazing
things with it.”
Project Lyttelton is also
working with Christchurch
3D printing company Fab Lab
to work out which recycled
plastics are suitable for printing.
The community group
wants to supply the company
with the raw materials they
discussion with residents, in
spite of residents speaking out
against the sale, so the report
was pulled.
The board was given four
options to consider including
selling it on the open market,
council undertaking repairs
and establishing a public work
need to do 3D printing so
they don’t have to use virgin
plastic.
“We’d be helping them by
supplying plastic and cutting
down the waste we chuck out,”
Ms Pritchett said.
The group needs about
$18,000 to get the park up
and running and have applied
to the Lyttelton Mt Herbert
Community Board to contribute
towards the project.
for the property, leasing the
property to a third party or
gifting the property to a third
party.
Akaroa is home to around
280 colonial buildings.
The matter will be put aside
at least until after the local
body elections are complete.
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