Bags earn award
The Christchurch City Council’s polythene refuse bags have won an environmental award for their manufacturer.
Mainguard Packaging, Ltd, won this year’s annual Chemby Plastics Industry Environmental Award, announced at Waitangi yesterday by the president of the Plastics Institute (Mr M. Calvert).
The judges agreed that the recent recognition of Christchurch as New Zealand’s cleanest metropolitan centre was partly a result of the anti-litter qualities of the bags. The Christchurch City Engineer (Mr P. G. Scoular) said the council had been able to reduce the number of collection rounds because the bags allowed faster collections. Vehicles used had been reduced from 12 to nine, he said. i
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19790528.2.20
Bibliographic details
Press, 28 May 1979, Page 2
Word Count
109Bags earn award Press, 28 May 1979, Page 2
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Copyright in all Footrot Flats cartoons is owned by Diogenes Designs Ltd. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise these cartoons and make them available online as part of this digitised version of the Press. You can search, browse, and print Footrot Flats cartoons for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Diogenes Designs Ltd for any other use.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.
Log in