The Te Paepoto Seedlings team and their piggy friends, Betty and Wilma, became famous in the Green Impact world this year with their creative waste reduction initiative. The team implemented a Piggie Bin in their office to reduce the organic food waste that was created by the wider office team, all of which normally ends up in landfill. The team identified that more than 100,000 tonnes of organic food waste end up in landfill each year in New Zealand. Graphics were created to help the Massey community to understand what can and cannot be placed in the organic waste bin before the waste was collected and delivered to their piggies for dinner. But the Te Paepoto Seedlings were innovative and took their education campaign to a whole new level. 

The most engaging way of promoting the initiative was the video that was created and shared online. The team created a fun video that featured the kunekune pigs that eat the food scraps as well as helpful facts for viewers to easily digest. By sharing the video online, the team were able to share to a much wider audience, educating over 2000 people on how to critically think about their food wastage and alternative methods of organic waste disposal.

Be sure to check out the fun piggy video here!