Pegasus Post: June 30, 2022

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Frustration over waste led to Liddy project
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“It’s almost like a Covid lockdown
project . . . we started with
zero money so basically just in
our free time,” he said.
Koch was inspired to start
making things out of recycled
bottle top lids from a group in
Holland who started a precious
plastic movement, recycling plastic
in small quantities.
He was also frustrated with the
amount of waste being produced
after participating in beach cleanups
around New Brighton.
Koch made his first Liddy
Board for his five-year-old twins
Mateo and Rosalie who had just
started school as a way for them
to practice counting.
However, they used it more for
making patterns and pictures,
leaving Koch to believe that it
could be good for fine motor
skills. This gave him the idea to
implement the boards into primary
schools and donated one to
Riccarton Primary School to act
as a test run.
Koch received a text from the
librarian that said the pupils use
it every single day, mostly playing
imaginary games but also a lot
of pattern making and conversations
about throwing away bottle
lids.
Koch said the feedback is
encouraging and he thinks the
boards could be beneficial for
kids with special needs who may
have a hard time concentrating
and sitting still.
“It’s a calming activity for them
and being creative and the kids
start talking about recycling and
bottle caps, it’s pretty cool,” he
said.
Koch makes the boards from
wooden off-cuts he collects from
joineries, putting it through a
machine called a table top CNC
router that shaves the board
down, leaving small cylinders for
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“On the face of the potential
amendment, even without that
assessment being available, the
change to the budget would be
significant and material requiring
consultation. The council was not
able to lawfully make this decision
whole point of a draft annual
plan is, which is to listen to
people, consult people and
respond to the feedback you get.”
Johanson said he couldn’t
understand why basic roading
issues in the east were ruled
out, when the city council was
ruled out.
Mauger said he thinks it
unnecessary at this stage to spend
money digging up a road like
Gloucester St, in the central city,
which is perfectly fine, while
others in the east aren’t.
“We’ve got to get our priorities
without that further information willing to spend $3.4 million on right . . . Yeah, I’m disappointed.”
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city. Johanson said while other
spokesperson said.
Mayoral candidate Phil projects needed to be weighed up
Johanson said: “It seems Mauger was also disappointed “we should be focused on fixing
completely contrary to what the Johanson’s amendment was the basics which came out clearly
the bottle lids to slip onto.
He makes the design of
the boards using a computer
program which then gets cut by
a router in the machine, allowing
for precise shapes that would be
difficult to do by hand.
Koch, an air conditioning
technician works four days a
week, dedicating Fridays and
Saturdays to Poly Lab NZ.
He started off with a small
sandwich press, melting down
the bottle top lids to shape into
jewellery and art pieces but now
has four large sandwich presses
and always has two on the go.
“I don’t ever use any new
materials when I make
something, it’s recycled, reused,
repurposed. It’s all about the
circular economy – right,” he
said.
“I believe we can do so much
with all these amazing materials,
in the submissions to the city
council”.
“People want the broken streets
in the east fixed, they’re sick of
waiting. They feel like council’s
spending a huge amount of
money on other things.”
He said he will be pursuing
city council staff and following
up on getting roading in the
east fixed to a suitable
standard.
“To get things done in the east
it’s very high quality stuff they
put out there, even the bottle lids,
they’re food grade plastic and
they’re only used once so there’s
nothing wrong with it.”
Koch washes the bottle lids by
putting them through a double
cycle in the washing machine
and uses about 150 for a board,
depending on its size.
He said the feedback he’s
received about the Liddy
Boards so far has been “really
encouraging” and he hopes
to make more to start selling
eventually.
“It gets me motivated to carry
on and make more. At the
moment we’ve all been a bit sick
and inflation is rising and the
Ukraine war and everything so
it’s a bit of a weird time,” he said.
“Sometimes I’m a bit
demotivated but then this kind of
gets me going again.”
‘To get things done in the east you have to keep fighting’
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you just have to keep fighting
and battling away, and I’ll
continue to do that.”
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