Want to join the team?
As we grow, we need more hands on deck!
If you’ve got one, two or a few hours to spare and want to be part of Mercury Bay’s Resource Recovery Centre, we’d love to have you on board.
Whether you’re handy with tools, great with people, or just keen to help out, we’d love to hear from you. Volunteers are the heart of this project, and there’s a role for everyone.
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Kitchen waste: Love food, hate waste?
The goal is to reduce kitchen waste by diverting it from landfill, as Kiwi households throw away 86 kgs of edible food each year, costing an average of $644 per household. An audit in the Coromandel showed that 52% of each blue Council rubbish bag is food waste. The key outcomes include understanding community sentiment, developing community commitment, influencing stakeholders, securing funding, establishing a revenue stream, and achieving sustainable operations. Check out our Food Focus ideas or get involved below.
Building our future: fit for purpose facility
The objective is to create a fit-for-purpose facility that makes it easy for the community to recycle. The facility will be designed for safety and efficiency to meet the needs of the team and the community they serve. The facility will be built from the ground up with a flat platform, drainage, utilities connection points, sheds, and a small office building provided by TCDC. A dry covered area will be built using container shelters with services, racking and storage, a retail area, and car parking.
Construction & Demolition Waste: hammering home change!
Construction and Demolition (C&D) Waste accounts for half of New Zealand's total waste going to landfills. The goal is to minimise C&D waste by raising awareness among home owners, builders, and architects to replace wasteful products and practices. This will entail designing waste out at the planning stage, encouraging procurement practices that reduce over-purchasing, enabling onsite recycling and sorting, and ensuring the redistribution of surplus and reclaimed resources through their own channels to the community they serve.
Maximising value: merchandising for success
Turning “Too Good for the Tip” into a revenue stream that sustains our good work, while making resources available to our community at affordable prices. Our aim is to be a thriving, bustling destination with high stock turnover and great returns. Based on good processes, robust systems, empowered staff and effective leadership, we will create opportunities for everyone to thrive and contribute
Money with impact: fundraising, donations & sponsorship
The Money for Impact committee will identify, target and nurture relationships with those who can contribute financially to our organisation, outcomes and objectives – helping to grow a cohort who care about our mission as much as we do. The core goal in this initial stage is to establish sufficient funds for three year operational/ overheads , enabling us to offer employment and build sustainable programmes.
Repair Cafe: Using local knowledge & skill to extend the life of everyday things
We live in a society that revolves around consumption. When things break we throw them away, as people do not know how to repair things or where to find the people who do. The Repair Café committee will build on our alliance with Repair Café Aotearoa, grow our pool of knowledge and skill volunteers, plan and host Repair Café events