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Ka pai to these awesome RefillNZ champions down south 🏅 - Fiona, Maddi and Hayford have been busy over summer signing up heaps of cafes where you can refill for FREE! 🥰💦

Maddi was in Blenheim over the hols and signed up Herb + Olive and Chantilly Cafe. Down in Christchurch New York Deli - Bushinn, Laneway Espresso and The Apothecary have just joined up.

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2 days ago

🐧The plastic situation is getting worse 😥and to help bring about change RefillNZ is offering schools in Canterbury the opportunity to have FREE workshops led by Algalita South Pacific director Raquelle De Vine, (funded by Canterbury Waste Minimisation fund). 🐬To sign up https://buff.ly/3ayvwP2
Raquelle travelled to the North Pacific Sub-Tropical Gyre last year on the Algalita boat measuring plastic waste https://buff.ly/2TMn214.
For five days, they sailed through relentless waste without the concentration letting up, she said. "For hundreds of miles in the central accumulation zone, there was no where you could not watch the ocean and not have visible pieces of plastic floating past the boat ."🥤🧃🎈 Christchurch City Council The Press - https://buff.ly/2TLgJe7
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The Pacific ocean 'Garbage Patch' is the worst it's ever been

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The Great Pacific's "vortex of trash" is the worst it's ever been, says Kiwi who recently visited.

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Do these people that film it pick up any rubbish when they go there to take pictures

Unless it is being actively cleaned up it's always going to be the "worst it's ever been". Its disgusting and heartbreaking and... is anyone trying to clean it up?

Situation is bad but you still see plastic shampoo bottles and other single use plastics in the shops and cafes hammer manufacturers and suppliers stiffer fines for littering , make people responsible for their actions.

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2 days ago

Coca cola is the worlds largest plastic polluter.👎🙅‍♂️ But according to Coca Cola consumers 'want' their drinks in plastic bottles. Really !!!!🤔
I doubt if people reaching for yet another sugar filled soft drink actually care about or 'want' the bottle they want the drink. And plastic has made it much cheaper for companies to produce cheaper and cheaper drinks and make truck loads of profit. At the expense of the environment.🌏🐟
And the fact that Coca Cola spend zillions on advertising, and ensuring that the drinks contain a heap of addictive sugar or non calorie additives - also addictive, has of course Zero to do with people 'wanting' their products. 🥤
This summer, yet again, Powerade (produced by Coca Cola) had challenges in our cities for which they GAVE away more plastic bottles containing addictive sugar filled 'sports' drink. Amanda Brien Ministry for the Environment
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