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Hamilton Sustainability Committee (Ideas to promote in building/emails…
Hamilton Sustainability Committee
Transition to new building
donating/recycling old furniture and appliances
New Building ideas
Waste management
Worm farm
Council recycling and composting bins apply to commercial?
Packaging on new furniture
Recycle at Lincoln Street centre?
lighting
Going paperless?
try and buy furniture and products that have Environmental Choice NZ label
Aim to get environmental choice certification
Events
Challenges between floors
Plastic free July
Bike Challenge
Aotearoa Biking challnge
Beach clean-up
Site visit with pathways to Living building
Lunch time talks
Kate meads the nappy lady
Christina Hanna about low waste living etc
Celebrate Annual days
Environment Day
Earth Day
Car free day
World Clean-up day
Planting days
Current building
Collect paper to reuse
Posters around building
Improve bike sheds
Use up drinks in fridge on level 6 and other things we will not be taking to the new building
Provide containers or mugs for people to get takeaways in (like mug/container library)
Printing: Ink used in printers (bio inks, refillable cartridges?), recycled paper, wider use of electronic tablets.
Corporate gifts and branded apparel: Give trees, or donations, find eco alternatives to pens and other branded products
buy/swap/trade/gift: set up email group as not able to send email out to building if selling something
Policies
Environment in Design/Design for Environment
Ideas to promote in building/emails
no buy october
plastic containers for takeaways
shampoo bars etc
Environmental choice products
Holiday season
Boycott christmas crackers
Use newspaper or kids painting for wrapping
Save power by switching things off at the wall
Switch to cold wash for laundry
Buying food and cleaning products from bin inn (make your own peanut butter)
collect plastic recycling at home
Buying things in bulk saves on waste
Eating less animal products reduces footprint on environment as less water used and less CO2 produced
public planting days advertised by HCC
https://www.futurefit.nz/
and
https://genless.govt.nz/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwuNbsBRC-ARIsAAzITufVz4u6oB58DnJFnbLdL7L0cb_oOcvmipGjYFXQBaI5-_3rwKDEnJwaAhjgEALw_wcB