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D1-6 Sport

With a warm, fine day expected, it’s just t

he time to pick up stumps at the

Basin and enjoy a beer with some great music.

A20

Weather TODAY Max: 22C Min: 14C

Residents want

zoo buses back

Damian George

damian.george@stuff.co.nz

Transport

■ INSIDE:Concrete cagesor crucial bas

tionsof animal

conservation?We lookat the ris

e of the ‘progressive’ zoo.

Pages 12, 13Red panda Ngima is one of Wellington Zoo’s most popular

attractions. But with direct buses t

o the zoo scrapped, its

chief executive Karen Fifield is concerned

how it will affect

the second most-visited tourist attraction in the city. STUFF

Calls aremounting for scrapped buses

to and fromWellington Zoo to be

reinstated, after concerns tha

t the

reduced schedule is affecting both the

zoo and southWellington residents.

Two all-day routes previously

serviced the popular visitor attraction,

but were removed in July when

Wellington’s newbus network w

as

introduced.Theywere rep

lacedwith one bus

that only runsduring peak periods.

Zoo chief executiveKaren Fifield

has long protested themove, and now

a community petition to bring back

the bus services has gathered

more

than 600 signatures.

‘‘Prior to the 2018 bus changes, we

had a direct trolleybus service to

Wellington Zoo from the [Wellington]

railway station: the No 10 during the

week and the No 23 onweekends,’’ the

petition, on change.org, says.

‘‘Since July, there has been no

direct service to the zoo.

‘‘Instead, you have to catch a high-

frequency bustoWellington Hospital,

then catch a ‘feeder’ bus from

Wellington Hospital to the zoo . . .’’

The connecting buswas also often

late, with the next service half an hour

away, the petition says.

‘‘Another concern is that people d

o

not use publictransport to the zoo,

instead using their cars, which in turn

adds to traffic congestion.’’

Fifield said shewas told by Greater

Wellington Regional Council the new

routes were designed to fit in with the

new network whichwas based on

‘‘hubs’’ – placeswhere commuters

transfer from core routes tofeeder

routes.It had affected zoo staff who

worked outside of peak times and

were no longer able tocatch a direct

bus home, and she also feared it would

have a negative impact on visitor

numbers.‘‘We’re the second

most-visited

tourist attraction in the city andwe’re

the only one affected this badly by th

e

buses.’’Wellington City councillor

Fleur

Fitzsimons agreed the new service

was not good enough.

‘‘It’s amajor problem that one of

our best tourism spots can’t now

be

easily accessedby public trans

port

during the day.’’

A regional council spokesman said

the council andthe zoowere jointly

developing some options for

consideration early next year.

The council agreed earlier this yea

r

to look into discounted bus fares for

tourists visitingthe attraction,

and a

possible shuttle service.

Clearer timetable informationwill

also be provided atmain bus stops for

journeys to the zoo, WetaWorkshop,

theMt Victoria lookout, and other

popular touristspots.

Soft plastics stockpile grows

Amber-Leigh Woolf

amber.woolf@stuff.co.nz

EnvironmentRecycling timeline

2015: Soft plastics recycling introduced to some

New Zealand cities.

2018: Melbourne-based soft plastic rec

ycling

manufacturer Replas becomes inundated,

and stops

accepting New Zealand’s softplastic recyclin

g.

January: China stops accepting general recycl

ing

from New Zealand and other countries.

September: The Government announcesconsultation

on phasing out single-useplastic bags.

November: Newmanufacturer Future Post says it ca

n

take some soft plastic recycling.

November: The Government says single-use plastic bags

will be banned within six months, including thicker bags.

Well-meaningNew Zealanders

dutifully recycling have

instead

been contributing to a who

pping

stockpile of plastic – weigh

ing the

equivalent of66 million sin

gle-use

bags.About 400 to

nnes of plastic –

stored in depots across the co

untry –

has been growing since an

Aust-

ralian manufacturerstopped

accepting softplastics collec

ted in

our supermarkets this year.

Some of the plastic earmar

ked

for recyclingcould end up

going

mouldy whilebeing stored,

with

only a fractionbeing processe

d into

reusable items.

Last week,the Governm

ent

announced single-use plast

ic bags

would be banned within six m

onths,

but BagsNot co-founderNick

Morri-

son said there needed to b

e more

solutions for plastic.

New Zealandhad poor plan

ning

and management for plastic

, while

avoiding the real problem –

how to

curb the mass accumulat

ion of

waste.Instead, a mea

ningful resolution

was needed,not a Band-A

id sol-

ution, Morrison said.

‘‘There’s a responsibility t

hat

certain industry and gover

nment

leaders have totake in regard

to the

predicament we’re in.

‘‘Ultimately, we just have to

get

rid of it. We have to totally

change

our relationship with plastic

s.’’

The gigantic amount of soft

plas-

tic – in 25 containers – is the

plastic

that people are dropping in

special

bins at supermarkets for rec

ycling

plastic bags, food wrappers a

nd any

plastic that can be scrunche

d into a

ball.

But instead ofbeing recycled

, it’s

sitting in storage in Aucklan

d, Wel-

lington, Canterbury and Dun

edin.

The Packaging Forum spo

kes-

woman Lyn Mayes said the

plastic

was being assessed for qualit

y.

‘‘What we have found so f

ar is

that if post-consumer pla

stic is

stored insidecontainers fo

r some

time, it is likely to go mouldy

as any

food and liquid contaminant

s break

down.’’Mayes said it

was the forum’s

‘‘absolute priority’’ to fin

d pro-

cessors for what it collected.

Melbourne-based recycled pla

stic

manufacturerReplas stopped

accepting NewZealand’s plas

tic at

the start of this year.

Since the last shipment

was

delivered to Australia, the p

lastic

has been stacking up.

Two companies take the soft

plas-

tic – Future Post, which ma

kes the

soft plastic into fence posts, a

nd 2nd

Life Plastics.

The PackagingForum has sai

d it

is supplying Future Post wit

h about

one container of soft pla

stic a

month.Carl Longstaff

, chief executive of

Metal Art, a Replas NZ license

e, said

there needed to be 20 to 30 c

ompan-

ies like Future Post to redu

ce the

stockpile.‘‘It’s going to t

ake more thantwo

or three companies to tackl

e that

stockpile,’’ Longstaff said.

The popularity of the sch

eme

meant peoplewould probab

ly con-

tinue to put more and more

of their

soft plastic inthe special sup

ermar-

ket bins.‘‘We’ve done

our own research

here. It’s too much for one ma

nufac-

turer,’’ Longstaff said.

The Packaging Forum has t

ried

to find overseas processors

for the

stockpile, butfound the proc

essors

were being fussier about the

quality

of plastic theywere being sen

t.

Instead, Longstaff said t

here

needed to be less plastic pac

kaging

in the first place.

‘‘If they couldreduce their p

ack-

aging by 50 per cent, then N

ew Zea-

landers wouldonly be recycli

ng half

of what they’recurrently recy

cling.’’

The PackagingForum was do

ing

the work ‘‘after the hor

se has

bolted’’, he said.

Mayes said the forum agreed

reducing the creation of was

te was

important.‘‘Soft plastic

is a flexibleand

lightweight barrier protectio

n and

its primary role is to protect a

nd pre-

serve products.

‘‘Companiesare looking at

alternatives, including comp

ostable

packaging, butthere is limited

infra-

structure for this at present.’’

Saturday, December 1, 2018

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• Four bedrooms• Three bathrooms• Multiple living, dining andentertaining options• Multi-zone Bose sound system• Spa room• Central vacuuming• Air-conditioned 1200 bottlewine cellar• Leafy manicured gardens• Garden lighting and irrigation• Exceptional space, privacy andsecurity• Internal access double-garageand separate workshop/shedLAND AREA

About 1977 square metresFLOOR AREAAbout 448 square metresRATEABLE VALUE$1.29 millionDEADLINE SALEDecember 6AGENTDella Randall,phone 0800 222 233www.dellarandall.co.nz/properties

VIEWINGTomorrow, 12 to 12.30pm

A N EXCEPTIONALLY spacious and privateexecutive retreat in dress-circle Waikanaeis on the market for the first time, with adeadline sale date of December 6.The four-bedroom, three-bathroom house, at26 Kohekohe Rd, was built in 1996 to exactingspecifications.It’s the commanding 448-square metre centrepieceof a supremely landscaped 1977sqm double-sectionwith expansive lawn, magnolia and maple trees,camellias, roses, Chinese toons, azaleas and a JonLambert-created pond.

The Alan Minty-designed home has a ply base andtextured plaster exterior, and bears the architect’sindelible signature of a 45-degree sloping roof withIKO shingles.

Double-gates, with a security camera, open toreveal the manicured grounds and the long drivewaythat leads to the front door of the two-storey flagship.It opens into a tiled entry foyer with a double-heightstud and high glazing that helps to maximise theelegant interior’s open, airy character. To the leftis a bedroom wing with two bedrooms, a powderroom and the first of three bathrooms while theextraordinarily large living and dining rooms are tothe right.

The house was designed for entertaining andindoor-outdoor living. It includes a multi-zoneBose sound system, a separate, air-conditioned1200-bottle wine cellar and an al fresco dell that’sbeen positioned off the family room so, with thedoors open, you can still watch the wall-mounted TV.The dell has pull-down awnings and a shade sailwhile the family/dining room is open-plan with thestainless steel and granite kitchen.The latter has a dedicated hot water cylinder,two gas hobs, two electric hotplates, a Smegrangehood, St George double-oven, integratedrefrigerator-freezer and dishwasher, instant hot water

system and breakfast bar.The family/dining area also opens to the garden andadjoins both a large sunroom and an extraordinarilyspacious formal lounge with a feature gas fireplace,bay window and banquet dining space.Also on this level is a spa room and internal-access,double-garage with extra storage..The main bedroom suite and guest bedroomwing are on the upper level and were specificallydesigned so grandparents and grandchildren couldhave their own spaces. Each bedroom has anensuite and there’s also an executive office with anin-built desk.

Other features include a substantial shed/workshop,12-zone irrigation system with its own bore, an alarmmonitoring station, and motion detection and gardenlighting.

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