Local Taranaki businesses are supporting Agrecovery Rural Recycling collections for plastic containers in Okato, Waverly and Inglewood with three container collection events. According to Agrecovery, empty, triple rinsed containers from nearly 60 participating manufacturers of agrichemical, animal health and dairy hygiene products are free to recycle at the events. The collections will be held at Coastal Wrapping in Okato on 5th November and at RD1 in Waverly and Inglewood on 6th and 7th November respectively. There will be BBQs at RD1 and anyone recycling at the events will enter one of three prize draws. “Taranaki has really increased their recycling of containers through Agrecovery over the last couple of years – from just under 300 kg in 2010-11 up to ...
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Farmlands Rotorua is supporting the push for sustainability and environmental best practice by hosting an Agrecovery Container collection site, with the added bonus of a $100 prezzy card up for grabs for those recycling in November. Local farmers, growers, contractors and golf courses can make the most of this recycling programme at the Marguerita Street store which will accept plastic containers on Monday to Fridays, from 8am to 5pm. Empty triple rinsed containers, up to and including 60 litres in size, from nearly 60 brand owners of agrichemical, biological, animal health and dairy hygiene products can be recycled for free. As an added incentive, anyone recycling containers during November will go in the draw to win a $100 prezzy card ...
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The Agrecovery programme is consistent with international best practice and is proud to be affiliated to the Crop Life International (CLI) Container Management Group. The 35 programmes affiliated to CLI, including Agrecovery, together recovered 64,000 tonnes of plastic in 2011. According to CLI using this recycled plastic vs new plastic saves energy equal to 120 million litres of gasoline – equivalent to removing 22,000 cars from the road per year! If you can’t see this image, click here for the pdf (courtesy of CLI): Infographic – Container Management September 2012
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Local businesses Farmlands, PGG Wrightson and Ruahehu Farm Supplies are all supporting an Agrecovery Rural Recycling initiative in Taihape on Tuesday 12th November. The Agrecovery collection event for agrichemical and animal health plastic containers will be held at Farmlands on Linnet Street, between 9am and 4pm, where there will also be a BBQ and prize draw to encourage farmers to bring their containers in. According to Agrecovery, empty, triple rinsed containers from nearly 60 participating manufacturers of agrichemical, animal health and dairy hygiene products are free to recycle at the three collection days. “While we have over 70 fixed collection sites across the country it’s simply not possible to have one in every rural centre, so that’s where these collection ...
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Farmlands Wellsford is supporting the push for sustainability and environmental best practice by hosting an Agrecovery Container collection site, with the added bonus of a $100 prezzy card up for grabs for those recycling in November. Local farmers, growers, contractors and golf courses can make the most of the recycling programme at the Centennial Park Road store which will accept plastic containers on Monday to Fridays, from 8am to 5pm. The site replaces that at Lawrie Road Transfer Station in Warkworth which was only open one day a month. “The new site offers users much great convenience – longer opening hours and a more suitable location should increase the volume of containers recycled locally,” says Duncan Scotland of Agrecovery. Empty ...
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RD1 have shown their support for on-farm sustainability and environmental best practice by hosting an Agrecovery container collection site for the disposal of participating brand on-farm plastic containers at their RD1 Taupiri store. There are seventy Agrecovery collection sites across the country including ten sites in the Waikato region offering a sustainable recycling solution for empty, triple rinsed plastic containers up to and including the 60L size. The agrichemical, animal health and dairy hygiene containers are shredded by a mobile processing truck and transported to Auckland or Christchurch where the recycled plastic is most commonly used for underground cable covers. In their 2012/2013 financial year Agrecovery collected 182,331 kg of container plastics – enough to make a 15cm wide cable ...
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David Ritchie, 8, of Drumpeel Farms, Otane has become Agrecovery’s latest Champion! David did a fantastic job of creating his Agrecovery Gladiator costume with containers from the family farm. The costume was modelled by David at Hereworth School’s Recyclable and Waste Awards. “Even though I didn’t win it was good fun making my costume with Dad,” said David. All containers were thoroughly cleaned before use.
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