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Riverlution Eco Hub
Haere mai and welcome. You’ve joined the ‘Riverlution’!
(Puns are a bit lost on me, your fan-trail guide Huanui. Us birds don’t have much of a sense of humour).
Riverlution Eco Hub is the headquarters of the Richmond Community Garden and a centre for a range of community organisations, collaborative events and activities.
The former home on land that was red zoned was to have been demolished. It was bought for $1 and is managed by a trust.
The hub is all about connecting people as well as sharing knowledge of – and an appreciation for – nature and the environment. Precious Plastics is a project that collects and repurposes plastic lids and other items that aren’t part of the city’s curbside recycling. The plastic gets turned into useful items for the garden.
Near the side door of the house, you’ll also see recycling collection bins for a range of other products. These include (some) toothpaste tubes, Tetra Pak containers, wine bottle lids and potato chip packets. These products are sent off-site for repurposing.
Next visit, bring along your washed and sorted lids and things!
On a Tuesday evening once a month, the hub is buzzing with a bunch of enterprising fix-it volunteers. They run a Repair Café – but there’s no muffins or scones. It’s an event where people bring along broken things that the volunteers will try their best to fix. It might be clothes, blunt knives, small appliances, electronics, or things that can easily be transported. Remember: repair and re-use are core environmental values.
The In River Clean Up project, managed by Avon Ōtākaro Network, coordinates the collection of rubbish from the nearby awa (river). You’ll see wooden sorting bins along the Vogel St boundary, for different types of resource recovery. Can you believe 12 tonnes’ worth of rubbish and dumped stuff has been rescued from the river during the past two years?
Be more careful, humans, pleeeeeease!
That’s why there are no takeaway cups provided at the Riverlution Cafe! Check it out, before heading to your next stop.
Links
Riverlution Eco Hub
Riverlution
Riverlution Repair Café
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