Our Seas Our Future supports Zero Carbon Bill
Our Seas Our Future (OSOF) is pleased at the announcement of the Zero Carbon Bill presented by the Government today. Once enacted, this key piece of legislation will lock New
Our Seas Our Future (OSOF) is pleased at the announcement of the Zero Carbon Bill presented by the Government today. Once enacted, this key piece of legislation will lock New
Our Seas Our Future (OSOF) would like to congratulate those who participated in the School Strike for Climate which took place on Friday and involved tens of thousands of school students. As a non-profit charity organisation dedicated to raising awareness on environmental issues, this unprecedented call for political action by school students is seen as an important example of grassroots climate activism in the 21st century.
OSOF encourages the public, and all other stakeholders to express their views before the submission deadline on 17th March 2019.
Our Seas Our Future is pleased to see the Government take a stand to phase out single-use plastic bags in New Zealand. The move symbolises that the Ministry for the Environment has taken into account over 9300 submissions made by individuals, businesses and environmental advocacy groups to the Waste Free Future Consultation.
Our Seas Our Future supports and welcomes the inclusion of New Zealand’s coastal waters as a Mission Blue Hope Spot.
Our Seas Our Future would like to applaud Air New Zealand for it’s recent pledge to abandon a number of single use plastics items used onboard flights. By doing so it is estimated that the airline will single handedly reduce the use of approximately 24 million disposable plastic items each year.
Our Seas Our Future calls upon businesses to take a leadership role in response to the New Plastics Economy Global Commitment Declaration.
The decision today by Countdown to no longer sell packs of single-use straws has been welcomed by the non-profit marine conservation organisation Our Seas Our Future (OSOF).
Our Seas Our Future supports the proposed ban on single-use plastic bags, and have welcomed the opportunity to comment on the Ministry for the Environment’s Waste Free Future Consultation.
Clean, lean, protein. It gets our brain working and our fat burning. Readily available, fresh or frozen, live or dead, it’s undeniable that the demand for bony fish is higher than ever.
Our Seas Our Future supports Jacinda Ardern’s decision to phase out plastic bags across the country in the next 12 months.
Clean, green New Zealand. With a dirty little secret. We are on track to becoming the first country in the world to cause the extinction of a marine dolphin. The smallest in the world – the Maui dolphin.
OSOF welcomes the news that Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced a ban on future offshore oil and gas exploration in New Zealand.
Initially, I believed that Bali was doing relatively well for a progressive country, in terms of plastic waste. Full of westernised cafes and restaurants, Bali depicted a rather cleanly image, with their metal straws and ‘plastic-free’ signage around the place.
OSOF welcomes the recent announcement by Associate Environment Minister Eugenie Sage that New Zealand has signed a pledge and joined the United Nations-led CleanSeas campaign to rid our oceans of plastic.
OSOF welcomes the call by Greenpeace and the Jane Goodall Institute New Zealand, urging a regulatory ban of single-use plastic bags. OSOF joins a list of organisations and councils as a co-signatory on a letter presented to Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage at Parliament today, along with a petition signed by more than 65,000 Kiwis.
The decision by the New Zealand Government to ban the sale and manufacturing of plastic microbeads has been welcomed by the non-profit marine conservation organisation Our Seas Our Future (OSOF).
The decision today by New World to phase out single-use plastic bags at its supermarkets has been welcomed by the non-profit marine conservation organisation Our Seas Our Future (OSOF). New World has announced an aim to be single-use plastic bag free by the end of 2018.
The decision today by Countdown to phase out single-use plastic bags at its supermarkets has been welcomed by the non-profit marine conservation organisation Our Seas Our Future (OSOF).
Consumer habit and the life cycle of a plastic bag means that they are having devastating impacts on the environment.