BEHAVIOUR CHANGE SECTOR GROUP STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING

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1 BEHAVIOUR CHANGE SECTOR GROUP STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING Date: 20 June 2017 Time: Location: Present: Facilitator: 10am 12pm teleconference Catherine Irvine (Dunedin City Council); Danielle Kennedy (Auckland Council); Donna Peterson (Invercargill City Council); Duncan Wilson (Eunomia Consulting Ltd); Gina Dempster (Wanaka Wastebusters); Jacqui Forbes (Para Kore); Jenny Marshall (WasteMINZ) Apologies: Karen Driver (Nelson Environment Centre); No. Agenda item Action point Person responsible Deadline Status 1. Welcome Introductions and Apologies Introduction Apologies 2. Love Food Hate Love Food Hate Waste Update Anna Mathieson has left Sustainable Coastlines and gone to work in Berlin for 5 months so she has stepped down from the Committee. It was agreed that additional people may need to be seconded onto the committee.

2 Waste The Love Food Hate Waste website has been live for a year now. These are the stats for year 1: 340,556 sessions 239,867 users 586,077 page views Since our last meeting March we partnered with Mitsubishi Electric to giveaway a fridge and used a video created by LFHW Victoria April we messaged around expiry dates May we released the results of research with the University of Otago June we promoted eating Nose to tail week What is coming up July we will be promoting be a stalker -a broccoli stalker August we will be educating people around mould and when it is safe to eat September content is yet to be finalised What have other LFHW campaigns been doing Scotland has created a full set of resources for schools LFHW Victoria has just created a video showing the environmental impact of food waste 3. Consultation on event waste The consultation is now complete and the technical working group is reviewing the feedback.

3 signage Note the Zero waste event guide from Auckland Council is now completed and can be viewed here 4. Te Reo Signage A number of councils have enquired as to whether there is a standardised list of Te Reo words for recycling and rubbish signage. Currently only Para Kore has a standard list and there is a translation company in Palmerston North which has included zero waste words in the science dictionary. Another council who hired a Maori translator received a different set of translations to the Para Kore translations. Further investigation is needed to determine whether this is due to regional variations or not. Jenny and Jacqui will investigate this further. 5. Plastic Free July Plastic Free July Events are being planned around the country. Plastic bag free Wanaka Group have had a reusable bag made which lots of outlets are selling on behalf of their group the funds then go back to the campaign. In Plastic Bag Free Raglan they have set up an accreditation scheme to sign up businesses who don t give out plastic bags to their customers Boomerang Bag Groups are springing up around the country There are also several screenings of the Bag It movie planned The Wellington Mayoral Office is actively petitioning the Associate Minister for the

4 Environment for a levy on Bags. How can the committee support these efforts? We will create a database of anti-plastic groups and champions from around the country and encourage people to connect regionally and also to connect with their councils. We will send out regular updates as to what is happening around the country so that ideas can be shared. 6. WasteMINZ Conference The committee brainstormed possible conference speakers/ topics for Behaviour Change Rebecca Prince Ruisz is the founder of Plastic Free July and is a great speaker. Note she has been contacted and is now confirmed to speak. Wastebusters South Australia - someone who has been involved on the ground with container deposit legislation e.g. a recycler Cath Irvine will be submitting a presentation on Dunedin s new inner city recycling depot Electric vehicles the future of transportation and how this will affect collections Rural transfer stations - how do we think about transportation, community resilience keeping the product in the centres How do you encourage action without doing it all yourself Note the call for papers was amended to encourage submissions on how to create community champions

5 7. National recycling brand 8. Message in a bottle There has been no further work on this issue. Duncan will resend out the thinking to date. Currently The Kiwi Bottle Drive is running a message in a bottle campaign encouraging people to physically mail bottles and cans found on beaches, public reserves or roadsides to Scott Simpson asking for container deposit legislation to be introduced. They are aiming for 10,000 bottles to be physically mailed in. There is no charge for mailing in a bottle as any item posted to government which weighs under a kilo can be mailed in via freepost. Freepost stickers can be downloaded here This is a great opportunity for school children to get involved in an environmental issue and to learn about civic participation and could be of interest to your enviroschools. For more information on the campaign please info@kiwibottledrive.nz