Food & Fruit (harvest Surplus)

There are many local groups who would love your surplus fruit and veg.

Food and fruit are best kept out of landfill. When organic material is buried it breaks down in a way that generates methane, a greenhouse gas which is harmful to the environment. 

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Reduce harvested fruit waste by offering to friends and neighbours.

Contact our local Community Fruit Harvest group.

Consider joining the River Exchange Barter System (REBS) to sell/barter your surplus produce.

Check with local food banks to see what fresh produce they are able to take: Koha Shed, Salvation Army, City Mission.

Consider setting up a food and vege exchange in your neighbourhood.

Check out the community fruit and veg stands movement here and an article about a local initiative here.

If you can't give your surplus away, consider an Easy Earth pick-up service. Easy Earth is currently negotiating with the Whanganui Resource Recovery Centre to have a drop-zone for Easy Earth buckets to be left and/or swapped for a clean one.

If all else fails - compost!