On 15 August 2023, the Aotearoa Plastic Pollution Alliance (APPA) and the Tāngata Whenua Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty (TWC) presented a joint submission (Part A and Part B) to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), providing our whakaaro on the scope, principles, and other critical elements of the Read more…
Liam and Hannah from The Rubbish Trip have been living without a rubbish bin for more than 8 years. Join Hannah for a tour of their incredible zero waste bathroom and get all the answers to the questions you have about ‘eliminating waste’ in this part of the house.
Plastic pollution and throwaway culture are two sides of the same coin and must be tackled together. Join Hannah Blumhardt of The Rubbish Trip, Reuse Aotearoa, the Zero Waste Network and more in this wānanga/Q&A to hear about why replacing single-use plastic with single-use items made from other materials is Read more…
Does compostable packaging actually break down fully in compost?Confused by all the different labels and certifications?Ever felt that compostable packaging might just be greenwashing? Hear all about it from Compost Manager and zero waste researcher and advocate, Liam Prince, live and on-site from the Kaicycle Urban Farm where he works. Read more…
The Tāngata Whenua Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty (TWC) is a collaborative forum of Māori plastic pollution experts including community leaders, educators, scientists, businesspeople, and researchers committed to honouring Te Tiriti o Waitangi and ensuring the effective participation and representation of Tāngata Whenua throughout the United Nations Global Plastics Treaty (GPT) Read more…
Earlier this year, the Aotearoa Plastic Pollution Alliance has teamed up with the Indonesian Forum for Living Environment (Wahana Lingkungan Hidup Indonesia, WALHI) to co-convene Break Free From Plastic’s False Solutions Working Group for the Asia-Pacific region from September 2022 – March 2023. This Working Group has been developed to Read more…
Our first APPA Newsletter is out today – 30 September 2022! Read on for important updates from the Aotearoa Plastic Pollution Alliance, including new single-use plastic bans and an announcement of our upcoming end-of-year hui on December 11-12. The Newsletter also showcases some of the incredible research and publications our Read more…
Join us December 2nd and 3rd for presentations and discussions from researchers, businesses, policy makers, artists and those interested in working together to mitigate and prevent plastic pollution in Aotearoa and Oceania. The 2nd annual APPA hui provides a platform for the community to come together and present their research Read more…
TVNZ’s Breakfast programme invited Massey University Environmental Anthropologist and APPA founding member, Dr. Trisia Farrelly, to discuss some of the broad issues around plastic pollution globally and in NZ. Check it out here:
In collaboration with the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) Asia/Pacific (of which APPA is a member), APPA Chair Liam Prince moderated a panel discussion with Hannah Blumhardt (NZ Product Stewardship Council, The Rubbish Trip and APPA member), and Dorte Wray (Zero Waste Network Aotearoa) on policies and challenges around Read more…
On Thursday 23 July, as part of Plastic Free July 2020, APPA hosted an expert panel discussion, Plastics and the Pandemic: Perspectives from Aotearoa, at Te Papa Tongarewa (Museum of New Zealand) in Wellington. Our panel discussed the post-COVID future of plastics, plastic pollution and the solutions that protect both Read more…
At the end of 2019 and the beginning of 2020, APPA submitted on three important Government consultations—a proposal to declare some key products “priority products”, a proposal to increase and expand New Zealand’s landfill levy, respectively, and a proposal to transpose the Basel Convention plastic amendments into New Zealand’s import/export Read more…
The day after APPA’s first ever AGM, New Zealand membership organisation for the spatial and surveying sector – Survey and Spatial New Zealand (S+SNZ) – held a workshop on ‘Mapping the Plastic’ on 7 December 2019 at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) in Wellington. One of Read more…
On July 17th, two APPA members presented at a science night for the public in Raglan as organized by the Whaingaroa Environment Centre. Dr Olga Pantos (based in Christchurch and an APPA committee member) presented, together with project partner Grant Northcott, about the occurrence and characteristics of microplastics and their Read more…