Food scraps trial in Onehunga

01/12/2023 - 31/12/2024
12am - 12am

PAST ACTIVITY
Onehunga
Volunteering
Sustainability

Eke Panuku funded a community compost collection trial in Onehunga.

The trial is a collaboration with local groups, Tāmaki WRAP and Triple Teez, with support from The Roots Creative Entrepreneurs.

The trial is about diverting waste from landfill, utilising active modes to test transport connections in the area, supporting local businesses and creating a carbon neutral community.

Three days a week (Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday) a team, with custom made bikes and trailer, cycle from Mangere to Onehunga, to collect food scrap bins from local cafes and businesses, which are then dropped off to the Oranga Community Garden and Compost Hub.

Tāmaki WRAP is a charitable trust made up of local people from Tāmaki-Maungakiekie, who are committed to ensuring a sustainable and healthy community and Triple Teez (Time to Thrive to Stay Alive Charitable Trust) is a community group that encourages cycling in South Auckland.

Triple Teez and Tamaki Wrap

The Oranga Community Garden and Compost Hub is for Oranga residents, with support from Auckland Council. The Gardens accepts food scraps drop offs by locals and have expanded to accept food waste from local schools. The compost that is made at the Oranga Community Garden and Compost Hub is then used to grow kai in the community gardens.

The food scraps trial is part of the wider work Eke Panuku is doing in Onehunga to help regenerate and grow the town centre over the next ten years.

Placemaking initiatives

Through our Placemaking function the Auckland Urban Development Office works with and supports local organisations, residents, and businesses on initiatives that help grow and develop neighbourhoods as places people want to live, work and play.

Placemaking is designed to get people thinking about how they want to live in their community, through different types of events and activations that embrace the uniqueness of that community.

The work complements our urban regeneration programmes that encourages greater investment and development in homes, shops, and businesses in suitable neighbourhoods around the city.

As the regeneration proceeds, especially during construction periods, placemaking events and activities continue to draw people into these areas to maintain and grow community life and business patronage.