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Proposal to phase out more plastics
Make your proposal now!
The Munch Cupboard advocacy team have put forward our company proposal under this consultation process. Anna's past legal career means that our company loves to be part of important government changes with due respect to democracy (in fact one of Anna's dreams is to have a full team just working on advocacy projects!). Say no to plastics and let's be innovative kiwis and find other alternatives. Read more below and make your proposal as well.
Plastic has many uses in our lives yet it is polluting our land, lakes, rivers, streams and marine environment. The government wants New Zealand to move away from hard-to-recycle and single-use items. It has two proposals that would help us do that.
The first proposal is to phase out the following types of unrecyclable plastic.
- Some polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and polystyrene packaging
- All oxo-degradable plastic products.
The second proposal is to phase-out seven types of single-use plastic items.
We are keen to hear your views on the proposals.
The consultation closes on 4 December 2020 at 5pm.
Showroom Opening
We are in the news about our new Showroom. Opening this Thursday at 5.30. Speeches at 6pm. You can tune into the speeches on events over on our Facebook page.
Here is a snippet from the news...
Munch and it’s sister brand Nil have been empowering Kiwi’s to be more eco friendly for over five years, with their wide range of plastic free and sustainably made essential products. Considering the environmental impacts isn’t new for founder Anna Bordignon, who says the whole product lifecycle needs to be looked at to be sustainable and ethical.
Bordignon says a lot has changed since they started. Back in 2015, eco and sustainable product categories didn’t exist in mainstream supermarkets. Fast forward to 2020, single use plastic bags are gone and waste reduction and sustainable reporting is expected of businesses.
Munch are proud to be playing a part in changing behaviour in consumer buying and sustainable manufacturing. They have seen an increase in consumer knowledge about sustainable and ethical production.
Read more here.
New Showroom
Hello Aussie friends
Hello Aussie!
As some of you know we have been selling into Australia for the last couple of years. We started with a couple of Sales people in a couple of states but we found that was hard to sustain. It really requires a large distributor or myself to reside in Australia to make it work. Well that is my opinion.
Anyhow Pre covid I met up with a key Distributor in Australia (who in fact lives down the road from my inlaws - which is handy) who have recently signed both brands. www.munchcupboard.com and www.nilproducts.com. This is very exciting for us. Especially with the state of the world and the growing border policy between New Zealand and Australia. It is really the right time to grow that export market.
She is in fact taking on our full range which is very unheard of as many Distributors pick at ranges and that can hinder a brand overall. By working closely with her needs we have fined tuned our ranges more specifically which has really helped our brand focus. Our Munch range is only kitchenware and something we will continue to develop. You will find a number of new products are due out over the next couple of months..
As for our nil brand we are only offering that brand to Australia as our nil harm beauty brand. A very focused ethical brand. We have new amazing fresh clean unique packaging coming out over the next couple of weeks.
Covid19 has given us a lot of opportunities that we have grabbed and pivoted towards. However many of the opportunities we have been working on for sometime but they seem to have grown recently. Although I am still mindful that the world still has a lot to deal with and there will be no business as usual for sometime. So I am still planning for the worst and hoping for the best!!
Take care
Anna