Our Daily Waste

30/01/2024

Our Daily Waste is selling up!

We have 15 complete sets of (Rec/Org/LF) 240l wheelie bin lids. The recycling signage meets the new requirements, and the organics stickers are designed to meet the requirements of the CCC's CFPE trial.

We have another 10 x Recycling and Landfill, and 14 x Organics lids with older signage, and would be happy to sell these at an even more reduced price. Will also do deals for someone buying the lot.

I also own the signage IP, so for a fee we could get new signage done, or some small squares to change out an icon.

Email [email protected] for more info.

22/02/2023

Now that we're concentrating on the consultancy side of ODW we no longer need our full event kit so our bin lids are FOR SALE. Please contact [email protected] for more info.

11/01/2022

I’m not enough of an activist for this response to Don’t Look Up by George Monbiot (who’ll go down in history for having really tried), but Mark Rylance’s creepy social media mogul reminded me just how uncomfortable I’ve been about Our Daily Waste’s presence on platforms that are consciously barring real climate action. I believe the only way we even have a shot at avoiding human extinction is to TAX THE RICH in every nation and put all of that revenue into a green (r)evolution.

Which brings me here. We haven’t posted recently partly due to social media fatigue – it costs either money or time to update – when there’s more important work for me to be doing. However, I also came to a decision several weeks ago (haha, before Lush did – I just didn’t get around to posting it) that I no longer wish to have ODW active on this platform. Operating in an ethical manner has always been part of our mission, so in the same way I would never knowingly buy Nestle products (and will not even watch a Goerge Clooney film) I have decided for the time being that we will not engage further with facebook beyond this post.

We are still operating as a social enterprise specialising in practical solutions for event and business waste, and I am available as a speaker and for workshops. You can find us at www.ourdailywaste.co.nz or email me at [email protected]

If Facebook both cleans up its act and starts PAYING THE TOP TAX RATE IN EVERY NATION IN WHICH IT OPERATES then I may consider revitalising this page.

Until then feel free to browse the posts below for ways in which you can rethink your waste. Thanks for all the likes, comments, great ideas, and just for being here and supporting us. Stay safe out there.

Dr. Sharon McIver – Director/Consultant, Our Daily Waste
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/04/dont-look-up-life-of-campaigning

I’ve broken down on TV, too, trying to explain the horror of the climate crisis we face, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

26/11/2021

Was stoked to go back to Tourism Holdings Ltd today and sort the recycling and reusables for the first time since the August lockdowns. We were training our new sorter on all the things we can divert, so this pile makes us really happy.

The campervan sorting and rehoming has started again.
Good mornings work with Our Daily Waste . Over 34 charities benefit from this .
Keeping it out of landfill.

17/11/2021

Waste words of the day #233 - waste colonialism
Of course dust can always be 'swept under the rug' to obscure it from sight and avoid having to deal with it, increasingly however, western countries have decided that it's just so much easier to sweep it under someone else's rug. Thus the term 'Waste Colonialism' has been coined because that 'dust', is millions of tons of plastic waste that is being shipped to poor nations, who receive it despite often having no way to deal with it, and even though it creates negative outcomes for its own population. It's a clear example of a massive imbalance of power. Additionally, criminal organisations are utilising the flow of waste to transport drugs, slaves and prostitution.

A new report reveals how illicit flows and organised crime groups are worsening the world's 'heartbreaking' plastic waste problem.

11/11/2021

Waste word of the day #232 - capitalism

Last year I had a young neo-liberalist disparage me for being anti-capitalist, and asking if I knew that socialism didn't work. I asked him why he thought capitalism worked when it had enabled our likely extinction, along with a bunch of other species. We need to tax the rich now on both their income and their carbon footprint. And until we do I'm tired of beating myself up for not being better myself.

George speaks truth to power:

"There is an oft quoted axiom, whose authorship is obscure: it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. Part of the reason is that capitalism itself is difficult to imagine. Most people struggle to define it, and its champions have generally succeeded in disguising its true nature. So let’s begin by imagining something that’s easier to comprehend: the end of concentrated wealth. Our survival depends on it."

Pandering to the rich has got us into this mess, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

10/11/2021

Waste word of the day #231 - Kamikatsu
Kamikatsu in Japan has been a Zero Waste town since 2003 when it issued a Zero Waste Declaration. In typical Kamikatsu style, it has recently commissioned the building of a Zero Waste Center in the town of which architect Hiroshi Nakamura was charged with designing the build using predominantly waste materials. A computer program was used to assist in incorporating the 700 windows and doors of various sizes that were donated for the project.

Architect Hiroshi Nakamura incorporated around 700 windows donated by the local community into the facades of this waste recycling facility in the town of Kamikatsu – the first place in Japan to pass a zero-waste declaration.

09/11/2021

Waste words of the day #230 - Mismanaged Pandemic Plastic
A recent study from Nanjing University in China, has traced and reported on how much covid pandemic waste has found it's way into our oceans, which rivers that it travelled down to reach them, and which continents that it has come from. The scientists who conducted the study predicted that by the end of the century almost all pandemic-associated plastics will end up on either the seabed or on beaches. Twenty six thousand tonnes of plastic and counting...

Increased demand for PPE has put pressure on an already out-of-control global problem, report finds

08/11/2021

Waste word of the day #229 - Kids

The winner of the Rinse Recycle Repeat school challenge has been announced. Congrats Wainui Beach School - this really made me smile at a challenging time.

So if you're in need of a cute kid fix, check out their vid!

Video entry for competition on behalf of Wainui Beach School.

04/11/2021

Waste word of the day #228 - Cloaca

As in stick it up ya...... Enviro cartoonist First Dog also reporting on the Greta haters...

Everyone knows that the people inside that building are not going to be the ones who solve the climate crisis

03/11/2021

Waste word of the day #227 - Trolls

I used to love my toy troll, but alas like so many words hijacked by social media, that innocent image no longer applies. But I've been hearing some seriously nasty trolling of this brave woman lately and it breaks my heart. As one friend pointed out Sir David Attenborough or Jane Goodall don't attract the same kind of hatred. Another one noted that they also had animals as a cause, and Thunberg is trying to save humans, which clearly pi**es many of them off.

I love her and that generation of activists, and am so grateful to them for giving me some hope. And here she is showing us how to make climate activism fun too, and if she does give a flying carbon credit abut what the trolls think, she's learned not to show it. .

The real change will take place outside the building.

Climate activist Greta Thunberg had some choice words for the world leaders inside the Cop26 conference in Glasgow. Joined by some of the many activists rallying around the climate change meeting, Thunberg decried inaction from politicians and big business, saying ‘We are not going to let them get...