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Goal 1: Make our packaging re-usable or recycle-ready by 2025
What have we done so far?
- We help fund the Packaging Forum's Soft Plastic Recycling Scheme. All of our potting mix and fertiliser bags can be dropped off at an in-store collection point; find the nearest one at: recycling.kiwi.nz/store-locator. If everyone dropped off their used Yates bags it would keep an extra 48 tons of soft plastic out of landfills!
- Our newly launched lawn seed boxes are made from PEFC certified board, assembled with water-based glue and printed with soy-based ink; they can go into your kerbside recycling collection.
- We have partnered with Agrecovery, a not-for-profit charitable trust that tackles the challenge of used pest and garden spray containers – to minimise their risks to the environment and recycle the left-over plastic. You can't put your pest and garden spray containers in your kerbside recycling - but you can recycle them FOR FREE at a drop-off location near you.
What’s in progress?
- Yates have joined the Australasian Recycling Label (ARL) Program, which helps consumers recycle our products correctly with a clear & consistent on-pack labelling program. We’ve started rolling this out across all our packaging.
Goal 2: By 2030 have at least 30% of our sales from sustainable products
What’s in progress?
- We’re currently developing a new product using renewably-sourced fertiliser. Watch this space!
- We’re involved in ground-breaking research to source fertilisers from circular waste streams
What does "Sustainable Products" mean?
These are products which have been assessed against a set of criteria including the product's life cycle, environmental benefits, packaging sustainability benefits, significant health or safety benefits, eco-certifications and any other significant sustainability benefit. The assessment compares the product against the standard product in the market (or the product it is replacing) and the relative benefits must represent a significant improvement compared to the standard (eg. 20% better life cycle assessment score)