Category: WASTEWISE
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Easter Clean-up Pop-up Event 2023
Always an enjoyable event for families, collecting litter and exploring the shorelines – some of our little helpers get side tracked by the crabs, but this is all part of what makes it fun
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Our 3rd Repair Café – locals helping locals
Another successful day with locals helping locals keep items from the landfill by repairing them. Genius
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Repair Café Nov ’22 – 68 Items Saved from Landfill
Our Repair Cafes are proving popular as locals thronged to have items repaired at the Māngere Bridge Library. 91 items were examined and 68 were saved from landfill.
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Friends of the Farm turns 10!
Ten years of making a difference in Māngere Bridge, a reflection on achievements and looking ahead.
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Ambury wins Outstanding Park Award
We always knew Ambury Regional Park was outstanding. Now it’s official!
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Māngere Pony Club Show Cross Event
Riders from all over the Auckland region converged on the club with floats, horses and supporters for a big day out – all wonderfully Wastewise.
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World Clean Up Day 2022 at Māngere Bridge
World Clean Up Day was celebrated in Māngere Bridge with a “pop up clean up” organised by Friends of the Farm
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Recycling Right – an update
Friends of the Farm has recently upgraded the recycling station at Māngere Bridge Library.
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Recycling Plastic Plant Pots is easy now!
Robyn tell us how things have changed for the better with respect to dealing with seedling pots & plastic trays.
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Throw Away? No way! Repair Café!
Repair Cafés are free events where local people bring in their broken or damaged items and local volunteers do their best to repair them.