Grey Lynn 2030 Transition Community

Grey Lynn 2030 has a very active Waste Away group who are excited about the opportunity for Auckland Council to take a whole new approach to rubbish – the valuable resource that currently ends up in our landfill in alarming quantities.

Recommendations in the draft Waste Management and Minimisation Plan will streamline the different waste management systems set up by the seven legacy councils, to help deliver waste services more efficiently, find better ways to reuse resources, and send less to landfill.  There is a lot to support in the plan but if the Council is serious about “Zero Waste”, to make Auckland the world’s most liveable city then there is still more to do strengthen the plan.

In making its submission Grey Lynn 2030 Waste Away urges Auckland Council to:

• be very proactive and stand up against the waste lobby to regain  control of Auckland’s resource stream
• push for mandatory product stewardship especially for E-waste, paint, hazardous materials, packaging, whiteware and furniture
• support beverage container deposits
• grant local community waste and recycling contracts rather than region-wide contracts
• look at shorter term contracts for internationally owned companies and longer contracts for NZ owned, or local, established waste companies
• help establish local resource recovery networks by providing training, helping with land and consenting
• encourage resource recovery networks in the direction of local control by community groups and local businesses
• encourage disposer-pays waste charges  (rates based for organic and recycling to encourage diversion)
• foster local solutions to local waste problems
• to have stronger regulation on cleanfills
• encourage the dismantling of buildings for C&D rather than bulldozing
• stop inorganic collections and instead redirect materials to resource recovery network.  Money saved from inorganic collections to go to establishing resource recovery instead
• advocate for legislation for an Organic Ban to Landfill by 2020
• help local rural communities to establish community-based or rural based composting or organic waste diversion to landfill operations
• change the target date from 40% reduction to landfill by 2040 to 80% by 2020
• advocate for container deposit legislation
• advocate for legislation to introduce the mandatory reduction in waste to landfill from business and industry, not just government
• purchase Living Earth Composting from TPI to help control organic waste stream
• have as a priority minimising wasted resources  to landfill,  and how to do that quickly.  Making it easy and profitable for waste companies should not be a priority, indeed, it should not even be considered.
• sponsor free consultation for Cleaner Production for Business and Industry

The plan is now out for discussion until 31 January 2012. Please use any of the points above to make your own submission – including what you strongly support and like.

Closing date for submissions: 31st January 2012 however, do it now, don’t put it off!

Have your say by 4pm 31 January 2012.

 Visit www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/wasteplan to download a copy of the full plan, summary document and complete an online submission form. You can also pick up a copy of the plan, summary and freepost submission form, from your local board office, council service centre or library. For more information call 09 301 0101.

Richmond Road, West Lynn
 
Local fashion, dinning, wine, gifts, kids’ toys,  books, pampering, produce,  organic treats and lots more. 
In association with the Grey Lynn Business Association and all the West Lynn retailers:   

Dalston
Dear Reader
Delicious
Gareth & Co
Gypsy Tea Room
Harvest Wholefoods
Luxe & Duke Hairdressing
Moa
Monterey Coffee Lounge
Malt
Nature Baby
Presentz
Raw Essentials
Richmond Road Pharmacy
Savour & Devour
West Lynn Organic Meats
Wine Vault
Vanilla Ink
428 Richmond Road Menswear

Grey Lynn 2030 Green Screen presents: Heart and Soil -A documentary about sustainable agriculture
This documentary shows the viewer a complex portrait of food and farming that is all a part of our lives. Whether you have long been a supporter of local food and farming or are considering making your first visit to a farmers market, this film will be seen in turn as charming, devastating, hopeful, historical and most of all inspirational.

Sunday 27th November, 7.30pm in the Garden Room, Grey Lynn Community Centre, 510 Richmond Road.
$2 entry.

Saturday 19th November 9.30am – 5.30pm

For the last 2 years Grey Lynn 2030 has hosted the Eco-space at the Festival.  Located around a huge teepee the Eco- space is a village of groups that share a sustainability,  community and local focus. 

This year we will be joined in the Eco-space by:

•  Kelmarna gardens and Framework Trust
• Grey Lynn Farmers Market
• Tumeke Cycle Space, the community bike maintenance group, who will be bringing their famous bike powered smoothie machine
• Carol Downer, local professional beekeeper and her hives (Carol’s honey is on sale at the Grey Lynn Farmers’ Market every Sunday)
• Our sister transition community of Mount Eden Village People.
• Grey Lynn Business Association promoting a new Grey Lynn Neighbourhood Watch initiative
• Grey Lynn Community Centre
• Grey Lynn 2030 Waste Away
• Auckland Community Zero Waste Alliance – Waste minimisation  display
• Toi Ora Arts Trust
• Mexi – Kai truck

The interior of the teepee will be transformed into a comfortable, tranquil place to chill in away from the festival crowds.  Drop by the Eco- space to relax, find out more about sustainable living and how to get involved locally.
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 Sunday 18th December 2pm

St Columba, 92 Surrey Crescent Grey Lynn

2pm – 4pm

Once again it is the delight of St Columba, Grey Lynn to host a community garden party celebrating summer and the Christmas season. This is a great opportunity to meet others from the community in a relaxed and friendly environment.

It has been the custom over recent years for St Columba to host a strawberry feast in the beautiful garden at St Columba, 92 Surrey Crescent, Grey Lynn, with local choirs offering Christmas carols for our enjoyment and heaps of strawberries and meringues to share.

Win a prize for the best decorated hat (a children’s and an adult’s prize!).

Bring strawberries to share

Enjoy the music and the garden

Meet others

(photos by Fionna Hill)

We are helping to get the word out about the Sustainable Business Network’s impressive showcase event on Wednesday November 9th at Shed 10, Queens Wharf

Come to the Sustainable City Showcase any time from 7am to 7pm to check out the latest vision for sustainability:

 7am to 9am –Conscious Consumer Commuter Challenge. FREE fairtrade Kokako or Atomic coffee for commuters on foot, bike, boat, bus or train.

12pm to 2pm – Great food available from the farmers market and Café

5pm to 7pm – Green Drinks

Plus delicious sustainable food on sale all day- from Ripe Deli, Cosset, the Library Café, Little Bird, French crepes, Paris Berlin Organic Bakery, organic meat barbeque, mussel fritters, gluten free and vegan food, and a whole Farmers Market to do some early morning shopping.