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The first step is precycling – please avoid single-use plastics and excess packaging.

• Along Ōtaki’s Main Street, you will notice particular bins labelled for mixed recycling and compost. These contents will be returned to the Māoriland Hub Para kore site to be sorted, washed, composted, or recycled. 
• Mixed Recycling Bins can take hard and soft plastics, clean paper and card, glass and aluminium, and tin. 
• Compost bins can take any organic and commercially compostable material, including meat and bones. 
• At the Māoriland Hub, all organic materials will be put into our NZ Box, a ‘hot composting’ system. 
• Choose reusable plates, bowls, cups, etc, in food truck areas. After use, these can be returned to a marked receptacle in the same area. Reusables will be hygienically cleaned, steamed and made available for use again at food truck sites.

We welcome any MFF visitors who may wish to help out at the Māoriland Hub’s Para Kore site. 

Tips to reduce your impact

• Precycle – where possible, reduce your waste at the source – avoid single-use items, plastics and unnecessary packaging. 
• Bring your own reusable coffee cup, bag and reusable water bottle.
• Choose reusable plates, cups, and bowls in the food truck area. 
• Any waste food can be put in compost bins.
• Washable plates are deposited in marked receptacles in the food truck area where you collected them. Our festival kaimahi will be collected, cleaned, steamed, and made available again.
• Separate your waste; most will go into compost and recycling; landfill is available as a last resort – follow the detailed signs. When possible, wash recyclables. 
• Offset your travel: Catch the free Māoriland bus, train, carpool, walk, or cycle.