News & Community Stories

Read these inspiring local stories about going above and beyond to ensure a sustainable future in Taranaki.

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Curious Minds Project

Together with Ōpunake Communities Kindergarten, Sustainable Taranaki is embarking on its new Project “Our Green Ōpunake Journey”. This is one of the four initiatives from the Curious Minds fund supported by Venture Taranaki. Curious Minds works with school and community groups who have questions or ideas that can be explored or tested with science.

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Container Deposit Schemes

For almost twenty years the organisation Envision has specialised in the community waste sector. We asked Envision Manager Matthew Luxon what he thought of the recently announced research into introducing a container deposit scheme in New Zealand. Matthew specialises in the establishment and operation of community-led, resource recovery enterprises nationally. Here is what he said.

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