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How Aleph Beauty helped its community keep half a tonne of makeup packaging out of landfill
More than 11,000 Aleph packaging components have been returned, sorted, and processed through ReAleph, the brand’s take-back programme run out of Auckland. Together, those returns represent an estimated 450 kg of recovered packaging material. Aleph Beauty founder Emme Peters is showing the packaging components that get reused and recycled. The problem with beauty packaging Beauty packaging has a waste problem. A single makeup product can combine glass, aluminium, plastic, pum

Caroline Thalund
Jun 243 min read


How Black Pine Architects turned a suburban footpath into a community gathering point
A busy intersection in Whanganui. A 100-year-old villa. And a patch of dirt that, for two months, had passers-by quietly wondering what on earth was going on. Then the wildflowers came up. The garden has its fans. Thanks to NP for sharing this one - as Black Pine put it, the wildflowers have been attracting visitors of all kinds. The problem with a perfectly ordinary lawn Most suburban front yards do almost nothing for the neighbourhood, let alone the planet. They’re mown, wa

Caroline Thalund
Jun 164 min read
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