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Plastic Bag Free Kaikoura
Why should Kaikoura be plastic bag free?
- Kaikoura is well known for our efforts to protect the environment and we need to keep up the effort!
- Protect our marine mammals (throughout the world over 100,000 marine mammals mistake floating plastic for food)
- Reduce wind blown litter
- Minimise use of global resources needed to make plastic bags
- Generate global publicity through the program
How are we going to do it?
We need YOUR involvement! Click here to see how YOU the resident or visitor to Kaikoura can be involved!
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Kaikoura High School student, Helena Knowles (aged 11) designed a fantastic logo to be printed on 10,000 reusable bags. Local businesses were invited to be involved - so far close to 25 have signed up and are listed below. Each business name is printed on 10,000 Major funding sponsors of the project are:
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Other sponsors and participants are:
91.9 Blue FM Kaikoura
Art & Design Gallery
Black Rabbit Pizza
Encounter Kaikoura
Endeavour Bookshop
Global Culture Kaikoura
Harnetts Kaikoura Butchery
Hines Takeaways
Indulge Body & Soul
Kaikoura i-SITE Visitor Centre
Kaikoura ITM
MayneStream Technology Ltd
Seal Swim Kaikoura
Southern Paua Kaikoura
Take Note Kaikoura
Waikoura Springs ltd
Woolshed Gallery
New World
Pot Belly Café
Fyffe View Hourse Treks
Bettys Kaikoura
Stoney Creek Fruit and Veges
Trash Fashion Display
Albatross Backpackers
Genieveve's
Christchurch based paper product supplier Shardlow & Co are generously supporting our local initiative by offering discounts to Kaikoura businesses purchasing paper products.
how DOES it happen?
Back in 2007, each Kaikoura household received one reusable bag FREE and each local school student also received one free bag.
The remaining bags are being sold by local businesses - and all profits reurned to the Kaikoura Enhancement Trust to print more bags.
If your business would like to sell the reusable bags, contact:
Vanessa
Seal Swim Kaikoura
phone 03 319 6182
email info@sealswimkaikoura.co.nz.
For further information about plastic bag free initiatives in New Zealand check out the Golden Bay Bag ladies
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