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Occupational Therapy / Ergotherapie (in WWI)

12,000 homes to be demolished

Christchurch earthquake waste = 20 years worth of municipal waste

Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship June-August 2014

Opportunities: i) Diversion of reusable resources from waste: Creating an alternative flow of resources with multiple benefits: socially, culturally, financially, environmentally. ii) Design & innovation: Catalysing creativity that produces viable design solutions to avoid the accumulation of waste in landfill in New Zealand. Generating community resourcefulness, resilience and value of local resources. iii) Enterprise generation: Enabling enterprise to be generated via the making and trading of high quality outcomes using local resources. iv) Changing awareness: Showing that there is no waste, only resources that can be re-used or designed out to eliminate disposal.

Foreseeable Obstacles: Lack of adequate seed funding Time required to develop enterprise and market for goods Questions of scale Treated timber and other materials not designed with reuse in mind.

Register at www.projectnz.org.nz

• Strategies for waste minimisation • Design a site waste minimisation programme Thursday 25 September 2014, 3 – 7pm, AUT City Campus Refreshments served Qualifies for LBP Skills Maintenance Points

Contact Details Auckland Council Solid Waste Mark Roberts mark.roberts@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz 47