Reshaping Plastics in Aotearoa New Zealand.
The way we use plastics plays a significant role in our environmental impact.
Our current linear, take-make-waste economy sets us on a resource scarce and challenging trajectory for the future. We must shift to a circular economy for plastic materials in which they never become waste or pollution. There is a huge opportunity for us all to reshape our perspectives, products and plastic systems to be circular – transforming our impact for good.
Making this shift is necessary for the future of Aotearoa New Zealand, and for our wider bioverse.
By applying just three principles — designing out waste, keeping materials in use and regenerating our living systems — we can make this possible together.
The aim of Re:Plastics is to start a conversation, and a movement. Guiding businesses to find better solutions, close their loops, and be part of shaping a circular plastics economy for Aotearoa New Zealand. For a future in which there is no unnecessary waste or problematic use of plastics materials— instead — only valuable and innovative use of our resources and systems.
Join the conversation with our webinar.
Start shaping your path...
Re:Plastics is a practical guide and a series of training sessions designed to actively transform how we view, use (or not use), recover and reuse plastics more responsibly and to their full potential. Explore the chapters to find the latest knowledge, tools and connections you’ll need to start shaping your path. There is no better time than now, and no time to waste! Learn about the circular economy, the attributes and uses of plastic materials, the current landscape and systems here in New Zealand, and the actions required to design circular plastic solutions... and then put it into action.
Answer Aotearoa’s call for change.
The demand is now and New Zealanders are ready. So how will you reshape your plastics impact? The circular economy enables businesses with new models and materials, new technology and innovations — and ultimately — with new value and opportunities. Our Re:Plastics training days are designed to put this theory into action. Helping you eliminate, circulate or innovate your materials, products, packaging and systems. Register your interest today, there are limited co-funded spaces available.
‘Ever since we banned single-use plastic bags, our national focus has grown from concern about plastic in the environment to the recyclability of products and their packaging and the long term impacts of the waste we generate.’
– Re:Plastics Design Guide for Aotearoa New Zealand
The vision we hold for the future is one without any harmful waste or unnecessary impact on our planet’s living systems.
A circular plastics economy in Aotearoa New Zealand is key to making this a reality. Re:Plastics is designed to help you reimagine the use of plastics with circular design principles – and to take part in reshaping the future of plastics in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Renew your inspiration.
Critical Design recycles and reprocesses coloured plastics in New Zealand and makes them into high value furniture, homeware and games.