Your Sustainable Workplace

We can help you create a more sustainable workplace.

Your Sustainable Workplace is a step-by-step programme designed to help organisations across the Wellington Region reduce waste in their work space.

For us, workplaces aren’t about buildings, they’re about people. We believe in empowering people by giving them the right tools and information they need to make long-lasting change.

We’ll tailor the programme to suit you.

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Site Assessment

Understanding your waste systems and knowing where to start can be confusing. We help you figure out your waste baseline and set out an action plan to reduce your waste.

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Waste Audit Training

The fastest way to sort out waste is to understand what you’ve been chucking out and where you’ve been putting it. We can help you do this.

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Green Team Training

Team work makes the green work. Your Green Team is a critical cog in the waste wheel. They need support and we’re happy to be it.

 
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Recycling workshop

Recycling is easy to say, but often harder to do. If you’ve been confused by the triangles, numbers and bins.. you’re not alone. We can help you make sense of the system.

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Reduce your Footprint

If you want to look beyond waste but you’re not sure what to do, we can help connect you up with our partners to get the help you need.

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Grading

We’re big on using data and staff engagement to tell stories. We grade you at the start and once you’ve completed the programme we’ll give you a report card that you can use for bragging rights.

 

We’ll help you build a zero waste culture throughout your workplace.

 
 
 
“After the home, workplace waste is the second-largest waste stream to landfill”
 

Join the league of Wellington-based businesses doing their bit for our planet.

YSW blog
The Co-operative Bank
The Co-operative Bank

Meet the Co-op crew, a team of people who’s mission is to do right by people. This is the story of how a small, but passionate group of green teamers changed their organisation for the better.

Catalyst
Catalyst

Meet Catalyst, an open-source software company at the leading edge of making hard IT solutions look real easy.  The whole company is made up of around 170 staff across three cities. They approached us in mid-2018 to help roll out sustainability practice across their offices.

Hills Hats
Hills Hats

Hills Hats is a bit of an institution in its own right. Originally opening 1875, Hills Hats has been in the business of making high-end hats for more than a century. Now owned by the Smut-Kennedys, Hills Hats is on a mission to make their workplace a more sustainable one. Check out their journey.

Radio New Zealand
Radio New Zealand

If you think RNZ is just a radio station, boy do we have news for you. Behind the scenes of the tech-savvy, non-commercial, media mogul, is a team of non-nonsense sustainability enthusiasts who took things one step further by completing our YSW work programme.

The Treasury
The Treasury

One of the Treasury’s main functions is to support sustainable increases in intergenerational wellbeing for New Zealanders, so they were already well-versed in the importance of going green. Learn how they took things one step further by completing the Your Sustainable Workplace programme

Environmental Protection Authority
Environmental Protection Authority

The Environmental Protection Authority did their bit to protect the environment by signing up to YSW. They even took things one step further and did a full waste audit. Keep reading to see what was in their bins.

Netherlands Embassy
Netherlands Embassy

Staff at the Netherlands Embassy were interested in sustainability and had an understanding of best practices in the Netherlands but were unsure how to apply this knowledge in New Zealand. Check out how we helped them navigate our systems.

EightyOne
EightyOne

EightyOne is much more than just a progressive creative agency filled with good-looking folk with phresh haircuts, they’re a company that really cares about the important stuff - staff wellbeing and taking care of Papatūānuku. Hear how they took things to the next level through the Your Sustainable Workplace programme.

St Vincent de Paul
St Vincent de Paul

The Society of St Vincent de Paul, affectionately known as ‘Vinnies’, is an organisation filled with hard-working and compassionate people, frustrated with the amount of waste ending up in the skip. So they reached out and we took them on the Your Sustainable Workplace journey.

Some of the businesses we’ve worked with:

Have you seen our awesome recycling programmes?
Razor Recycling
Razor Recycling

We are a central Wellington drop-off for your used razors and shavers.

Plastic & metal lid recycling
Plastic & metal lid recycling

We’re a central city drop-off for metal bottle caps, lids for glass jars and plastic lids

Ewaste recycling
Ewaste recycling

Drop off your e-waste to us. We take everything from TVs, stereos, heaters, phones, cellphones, batteries, small appliances.

Curtain recycling
Curtain recycling

The Wellington Curtain Bank upcycles pre-loved curtains for those who need them. Drop your mould free pre-loved curtains off to us.

Stationery recycling
Stationery recycling

We are a central Wellington drop-off for your unwanted stationery and pens.

Oral Care recycling
Oral Care recycling

We are a central Wellington drop-off for toothbrushes, toothpaste and other oral care products.

Car seat recycling
Car seat recycling

We are a central Wellington drop-off for your expired car seats.

Bicycle recycling
Bicycle recycling

We are a central Wellington drop-off for your old bikes. Our partners at Rebicycle upcycle your preloved bikes getting them road ready for those who need them.