♻️ Soft Plastic Recycling at Grey Lynn Community Centre! 🛍️🌱
Did you know your soft plastics can become planter boxes, fence posts, and more? 💚
Bring your bread bags, chip packets, frozen food bags, bubble wrap and other soft plastics to Grey Lynn Community Centre and give them a new life!
✅ YES – Recycle These:
• Bread bags
• Snack and chip packets
• Frozen food bags
• Cereal and dairy wrap
• Toilet paper wrappers
• Confectionery wrap
• Courier bags
• Bubble wrap
• Pet food bags
• Garden potting mix bags
… and more!
🚫 NO – These contaminate recycling:
• Compostable or degradable plastic
• Face masks and gloves
• RAT test kits
• Food or drink containers
• Foil or metal items
💡 Take the Scrunch Test: If you can scrunch it into a ball, we can recycle it!
📍 Find out more and locate drop-off points: recycling.kiwi.nz/store-locator
Let’s reduce landfill together – one soft plastic at a time!
Poll: 🤖 What skills do you think give a CV the ultimate edge in a robot-filled workplace?
The Reserve Bank has shared some pretty blunt advice: there’s no such thing as a “safe” job anymore 🛟😑
Robots are stepping into repetitive roles in factories, plants and warehouses. AI is taking care of the admin tasks that once filled many mid-level office jobs.
We want to know: As the world evolves, what skills do you think give a CV the ultimate edge in a robot-filled workplace?
Want to read more? The Press has you covered!
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52.7% Human-centred experience and communication
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14.4% Critical thinking
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30% Resilience and adaptability
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2.9% Other - I will share below!
Brain Teaser of the Day 🧠✨ Can You Solve It? 🤔💬
Make a hearty dish. Take just half a minute. Add four parts of kestrel. Then just add one. What have you made?
(Trev from Silverdale kindly provided this head-scratcher ... thanks, Trev!)
Do you think you know the answer? Simply 'Like' this post and we'll post the answer in the comments below at 2pm on the day!
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Have you got New Zealand's best shed? Show us and win!
Once again, Resene and NZ Gardener are on the hunt for New Zealand’s best shed! Send in the photos and the stories behind your man caves, she sheds, clever upcycled spaces, potty potting sheds and colourful chicken coops. The Resene Shed of the Year 2026 winner receives $1000 Resene ColorShop voucher, a $908 large Vegepod Starter Pack and a one-year subscription to NZ Gardener. To enter, tell us in writing (no more than 500 words) why your garden shed is New Zealand’s best, and send up to five high-quality photos by email to mailbox@nzgardener.co.nz. Entries close February 23, 2026.
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