Selwyn Times: March 21, 2018

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Lincoln Pantry goes reusable
A LINCOLN boutique food
store has ditched its disposable
cups – and is challenging other
businesses to do the same.
The Lincoln Pantry will divert
about 35,000 cups away from the
landfill each year after switching
to reusable cups only last week.
The business officially
launched its campaign on
Thursday at an event officiated
by Deputy Mayor Malcolm
Lyall.
With nearly 300 million
disposable coffee cups going to
landfill each year, The Lincoln
Pantry owner Phillippa Boa
said a drastic response was
necessary and decided to ditch
the disposables altogether.
“It’s not just the amount of
waste to landfill that’s created
by the inability to effectively
compost the cups, it’s also the
amount of energy that goes
into creating the cups in the
first place, and the ongoing
management of them in the
waste stream thereafter,” she
said.
Mrs Boa said as a result, it is
joining the BYO cup movement
and, from now on, will only
provide takeaway coffee in
reusable cups.
“Disposable cup-free pantry
today, disposable cup-free
Lincoln tomorrow? Disposable
cup-free Canterbury and New
Zealand hopefully soon to
follow,” she said.
To further encourage BYO
behaviour, all purchases of keep
cups from The Lincoln Pantry
will be rewarded with a free
coffee.
Mrs Boa said the business has
an affordable range of options
– from basic bamboo and bioversions
through to premiumbranded
glass keep cups.
For the “texters and serial
forgetters”, the pantry offers
a ‘swappacup’ subscription
system. “People who text in their
coffee order are usually on a
deadline, so having to come in
with their own keep cup would
actually slow them up. With
“swappacup”, they just swap
their old cup for a new cup with
their favourite brew all ready to
go,” Mrs Boa said.
She said it is ideal for those
who forget their keep cup or
those who haven’t had the
opportunity to clean their cup.
“But we’re more than happy
to swap a dirty one for a clean
one. The rewards for the planet
CHEERS:
Malcolm Lyall,
Phillippa Boa
and Sue Jarvis
celebrating
the launch of
the Lincoln
Pantry’s
campaign to
use reusable
cups only.
PHOTO:
MARTIN
HUNTER
are worthwhile”. The Lincoln
Pantry’s initial investment in
reusable cups was made with the
support of Lincoln Envirotown
and it hopes the initiative will
encourage other businesses to
follow suit.
•For more information go to
The Lincoln Pantry’s Facebook
page.
•HAVE YOUR SAY: Do you
think more businesses
in Selwyn should ditch
disposable cups? Email your
views to georgia.oconnor@
starmedia.kiwi
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Red Bus chief executive Paul
McNoe said there were not enough
people to make it commercially
viable.
“The patronage would have
almost needed to double to make it
a commercial success,” he said.
But he said the effort put in by
Bus Go Canterbury was appreciated.
The bus service left Darfield at
7.15am and Christchurch
at 5.30pm. Mr
Stoneman said it tried
to change the evening
bus to 3.30pm to pick
up school children
Nick
Stoneman
but the idea did not
gain traction with
Red Bus.
Mr McNoe said
this was because the survey indicated
more people preferred a
return time of 5.30pm. Residents
travelling to and from Darfield
were expected to pay $9 each way
and children $6. Adults travelling
from West Melton paid $6 each
way while children paid $4.30, and
residents travelling from Yaldhurst
paid $5 and children $3.80.
Mr Stoneman said the cost of the
fare was also “not productive”.
But Mr McNoe said if the fares
had been halved more than four
times the number of people would
have needed to travel on the bus to
make it viable
Magical Park
EverGreen Game!
Celebrate Parks Week 2018
by playing an exciting new
augmented reality game with an
environmental twist — EverGreen!
Available at Lincoln Domain on Meijer
Drive, Lincoln from 10–25 March.
Turning recycling and rubbish collection
into a fun and exciting game for kids
rewards them for being responsible for
their environment.
EverGreen encourages kids and families to
get out and explore their local parks whilst
learning the fundamentals of recycling.
· Average playing time 30–60mins
· Average distance covered 700–2000m
Other games to choose from:
· Augmentia – find kittens
· Prehistoria – collect dinosaur eggs
· Alien Scape – save aliens
Download the app on Android and iPhone.
See the in-game instructions.
GEO A.R.
games
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S $5.90 L $6.90
Farmhouse
Bacon, Egg, Frank, Tomato Relish, Cheese
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Bacon & Egg Dog
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Classic Dog
S $4.90 L $5.90
Chips $4.00
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• Bacon
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• Egg
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