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The Warehouse launches video showing partnership with Future Post and Soft Plastics Recycling Scheme

Posted on Feb 27, 2020, 6:06 PM

Fantastic short video produced by The Warehouse Group on how Future Post transforms soft plastic material collected in the The Warehouse stores into long-lasting, durable fence posts.

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The Project

Posted on Feb 27, 2020, 6:05 PM

Great to see Jerome showing how soft plastics are being turned into fence posts. We encourage every winery, farm, park and any organisation that is buying fence posts to buy these "recycled" posts. We all need to be buy "recycled" to allow us all to recycle more...

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Wellington region soft plastics collections

Posted on Feb 27, 2020, 6:00 PM

Wellington residents can drop off their soft plastic packaging from Monday at six Countdown and Warehouse stores. Collections are carried out by Earthlink in Lower Hutt – a community enterprise which employs people who struggle to get into work due to mental health, addiction and other barriers. This supports our commitment to the environment and the community. The collected soft plastics is sent to Second Life Plastics in Levin where they will be used in the manufacture of cable covers, garden edging and other products. A regional solution to recycling.....

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