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Becky is a freelance designer and illustrator currently working under the studio name MAYK. Becky is from Auckland and studied Fine Arts at Ilam in Christchurch. Her design career began in Wanaka where she formed her own freelance design business before relocating back to the North. Working in contract as well as full-time positions, Becky picked up various design and advertising roles for bou...

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We're lucky to have an amazing community of customers here at decent packaging. We wanted to create a series to promote a few Auckland businesses opening safely for takeaways during Level 3.These past couple of weeks have been tough, but we are ready to get out and support our local community. Supporting doesn't only mean spending money – a follow on social media or a message with positive feed...

We're lucky to have an amazing community of customers here at decent packaging. We wanted to create a series to promote the businesses opening safely for takeaways during level 3. These past couple of weeks have been tough, but we are ready to get out and support our local community. Supporting doesn't only mean spending money, please click the images below to give each business a follow on so...

At decent packaging, we strongly believe in focusing on the end of life for all our products, just as much as the fit for purpose design for our customers. Because, unfortunately, we’re in a global waste crisis. Despite everyone’s best efforts, most plastics are not recycled, landfills are full of food waste, and inconsistencies in waste management infrastructure is causing major confusion.  W...

As part of understanding how the Full Package can help businesses redirect their waste, we worked with London residents, James and Mat from Rosslyn Coffee to measure the impact The Full Package has been having on their Cafe.

We caught up with Tane from Proof and Stock Coffee Roasters who have been roasting and brewing coffee in New Plymouth for over three years now. More recently they established their own composting facility to help close the loop on their Innocent Packaging cups, food waste and other organics onsite — not only lowering their carbon footprint but also creating organic worm filled goodness for the ...

The Full Package is a solution which aims to address this problem. Because fundamentally everyone wants to do the right thing and customers are expecting all businesses to do their part in implementing sustainable solutions and reducing organic waste going to landfill. This month Total Waste Solutions and decent packaging have launched The Full Package, the first city-wide compost collection o...

We caught up with the masterminds, Tim and Luke, behind the infamous Auckland vegan burger joint, Wise Boys while celebrating their 5th year in business. After dreaming up this brain-child, they quickly swapped their paper-pushing jobs for a food truck and metal spatula. Their number eight wire approach has seen them grow to two stores, a food truck and expansion into a new city on the horizon...

A GREENER ARENA  Spark Arena rolls out Zero Waste Strategy Auckland’s Spark Arena has switched to 100% compostable serve ware for public events. On September 1st 2018, the venue implemented stage one of its Zero Waste Strategy, replacing all single-use cups and hot food packaging with carefully sourced plant-based alternatives from decent packaging. Compostable waste, which now includes cups...

The amount of food waste in New Zealand is tragic, but it becomes truly heartbreaking when you also look at the scale of food poverty too. Everybody Eats, a not-for-profit, founded by Nick Loosley and works to combat food waste and alleviate food poverty by providing a nutritious three-course meal to Kiwis who often have to go without, using food that would otherwise be thrown away.  Everybody...

If you or someone you know is struggling, there is free help available. 1737 is a helpline that offers a trained counsellor 24 hours a day - it's a free and completely confidential service. To contact, call or text 1737. You can also call Lifeline on 0800 543354 or text HELP to 4357. To contact I AM HOPE directly, please click this link https://www.iamhope.org.nz/contact-us Our latest Composta...