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Great to see Professor Dame Juliet Gerrard on the New Zealand Food Waste Champions 12.3 Charitable Trust (NZFWC 12.3 Trust) Board! We're excited to have Juliet facilitating our panel discussion at Te Hui Taumata Moumou Kai o Aotearoa - New Zealand Food Waste Summit this October! https://lnkd.in/g__udfWp

Keen to find out what the Contaminated Land Management Steering Committee and Disposal to Land Steering Committee have prioritised in their recently approved strategic and work plans? Want to know why the Disaster Waste working group are writing to Parliament? Looking to find out which groups are about to go through elections? Join us tomorrow, Thursday, 5 September, for an update from each of the chairs of our steering committees to find out what mahi the steering committees have been undertaking and what is next! Learn more and register here: https://lnkd.in/gPrWVjBw

Professor Sheila Skeaff from the University of Otago is our final keynote speaker for Te Hui Taumata Moumou Kai o Aotearoa - New Zealand Food Waste Summit, brought to you by WasteMINZ and New Zealand Food Waste Champions 12.3 Charitable Trust (NZFWC 12.3 Trust). ✴ Professor Skeaff has an MSc in Nutritional Biochemistry from the University of Guelph (Canada) and a PhD in Human Nutrition from the University of Otago. In addition to being a long-standing academic at the University of Otago, Professor Skeaff has held or been appointed to a number of national and international expert groups. Professor Skeaff served as the President of the Nutrition Society of New Zealand for six years and is the vice-chair of the trans-Tasman Expert Working Group for Iodine that is reviewing the Australian/New Zealand Nutrient Reference Values for Iodine. She is a member of a World Health Organisation external expert group working to revise guidance on Iodine indicators. Professor Skeaff plays a key role in the governance of the Oceania Nutrition Leadership Platform, serving as the Chair. She is on the Editorial Board of the journals Maternal and Child Nutrition and Frontiers of Nutrition. In 2018 she gained national recognition with an Ako Aotearoa Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award and in 2022 was the OUSA best postgraduate supervisor of the year. ✴ Professor Skeaff will be helping us use data to inform our decision making. She will cover what food waste data we have in NZ, why we need this data and where we may be able to focus our efforts to build a more robust dataset. Want to delve into the data? Learn more on the WasteMINZ website: https://lnkd.in/g__udfWp

Great news - free tyre collections kick off across Aotearoa New Zealand from 1 September! Ka pai tō mahi, Tyrewise

Do you know someone who has dedicated considerable time, resources and knowledge to WasteMINZ? It's time to nominate them for a WasteMINZ life membership. Any person who gives WasteMINZ especially meritorious service may be nominated for election as a life member at the AGM. Life membership gives us the opportunity to thank those members for their passion and commitment to the sector. If you're keen to nominate someone, please round up a seconder and complete this form by Thursday, 5 September: https://lnkd.in/g2JmVXgv

Introducing Sam Oakden, one of our inspirational keynote speakers at Te Hui Taumata Moumou Kai o Aotearoa - New Zealand Food Waste Summit, brought to you by WasteMINZ and New Zealand Food Waste Champions 12.3 Charitable Trust (NZFWC 12.3 Trust). ✨Sam is A/Director Industry Action at End Food Waste Australia, leading the team delivering the Australian Food Pact. The Pact brings together organisations in pre-competitive collaboration to make Australia’s food system more sustainable, resilient, and circular. It’s a multi-year commitment by the businesses who grow, make and sell our food to develop solutions and implement change at scale. ✨Sam will be presenting on  Australia’s progress towards halving food waste by 2030. Australia has set some bold targets to move towards halving food waste by 2030. This work is supported by strategy, the Australian Food Pact, Sector Action Plans, and research. But at the heart of this is collaboration within and across sectors. Sam will give an update on the work underway in Australia and how they are progressing towards the nation’s goal. Want to hear Sam speak? Head to the WasteMINZ website to find out more about the NZ Food Waste Summit: https://lnkd.in/g__udfWp

🐦 Calling all Earlybirds! 🐦 Earlybird pricing for WasteMINZ's Leading Workplace Relationships course ends tomorrow - get in quick! You'll join facilitator Andrew Barney, alongside others in your industry, to develop key leadership skills and knowledge in the two main areas of people management – the psychological elements (what can I do with these staff?) and employment relations elements (what must I do with these staff?). Andrew has over 30 years' experience working as a business consultant, facilitator, executive trainer, manager and tertiary educator in New Zealand, Denmark and Great Britain. He was also a consultant and course facilitator for EMA for four years. Andrew's approach to teaching is fun, inclusive and thought-provoking, and draws on his wide experience of business, organisations and the challenges of managing people. When he is not working with manager or teaching, Andrew enjoys sailing, tramping, and playing music, badly. The course is limited to just 20 people, so save your spot now: https://lnkd.in/gY7EeAvN

Join Wayne Scott and Don Chittock from the Aggregates and Quarrying Association of New Zealand, as they talk you through the effects of the Waste Minimisation (Waste Disposal Levy) Amendment Act 2024 on the aggregate and quarry sector. This 60 minute webinar will provide an insight into: 🔷 Why quarries require fill and ongoing legal commitments. 🔷The importance of soils and fill for quarries and how it is used/ reused. 🔷The impacts of the introduction of another legal requirement designed to drive higher recycling / circularity on existing consented and/or authorised (bylaw license) activity. 🔷The confusion and conflict created by the “mix” of legislative requirements imposed on fill operators and the construction industry. 🔷Issues created by the positions councils take on fill and fill sites. Learn more and register here: https://lnkd.in/gnTsgkmK

🔴 The Environmental Protection Authority NZ has issued a Red Alert Notice for chlorthal-dimethyl herbicides, and has advised that anyone using the chemical stops now.

Introducing our first keynote speaker for Te Hui Taumata Moumou Kai o Aotearoa – New Zealand Food Waste Summit: Kaitlin Dawson from New Zealand Food Waste Champions 12.3 Charitable Trust (NZFWC 12.3 Trust) ✨ Kaitlin is the Executive Director of NZ Food Waste Champions 12.3. For the past decade, Kaitlin has entrenched herself in the waste minimisation sector, driving incredible results. Her curiosity for understanding human behaviour sparked her desire to change the waste system from the ground up. Her heart is happy when connecting community initiatives with business and government to create collaborative, sustainable change. ✨ Kaitlin will be presenting on New Zealand's food waste progress, gaps and pathway forward. Food waste reduction in New Zealand has progressed dramatically in the past two years and is continuing to evolve. Kaitlin will use the recently developed Food Waste Reduction Ecosystem as a foundation to highlight the gaps, opportunities and solutions at our fingertips and explore how the international environment is impacting Aotearoa New Zealand’s food waste sector. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/g__udfWp