An easy to use 10-step guide to minimise waste in your workplace, and make positive steps towards Zero Waste in your office and personal life.

The team at Res.Awesome are proud to announce the release of our easy to use waste reduction guide for your workplace. We created this to help you minimise waste in your place of work and make positive steps towards zero-waste in your life. The guide is available for purchase on our website and is packed full of information on how to keep your office (whatever that may look like) as sustainable as possible.

Managing to prepare your whole household for the day with a nutritious and zero-waste lunch before you’ve even had your first cup of coffee can be a true mission. Muesli bars and sandwiches are flying across the kitchen in great haste to make it into those lunch boxes before hitting the road for the day. A successful morning is when you manage to leave the house with every member of your tribe fed, clean and prepped! The team at Res.Awesome is here to help!

Product stewardship is about the right people taking responsibility for the products we see available on the market and hopefully engaging in a bit of future-proofing for forthcoming generations. It involves redesigning the product supply chain to ensure we are not doing unnecessary and preventable damage. Product stewardship is regulated in order to increase circular resource use and shift the responsibility for managing products onto the producers, importers and retailers; this involves taking responsibility for the items when they have come to the end of their life-span and thinking about the potential impacts these products have on our communities and Papatuanuku.

The school holidays are fast approaching and Res.Awesome is here to help! During this time we understand many parents will be frantically trying to compile a list of fun, budget-friendly activities to keep the kiddies entertained. With the weather beginning to look decidedly more Wintery, having a handy list of indoor projects is imperative to ensure everyone is happy. Get creative with reusability and see what amazing ideas your kids come up with when it comes to fashioning new toys, games or art. Set up a crafternoon with some regular recyclable household items; bottle tops, cardboard boxes/cylinders, egg cartons, plastic bottles. Watch your kids unleash their creativity!

While the team at Res.Awesome has a long list of goals to achieve that will benefit our community, the main objective involves seeing Dunedin become a Zero Waste city. To achieve this goal, we must have a clear idea of what we are working towards. It’s all well and good knowing that the current system isn’t working and needs to be ditched; but what the heck do we replace it with? Res.Awesome are here to share our vision of a beautiful Zero Waste Otepoti!