Together for a sustainable future

Example of walls made of recycled food & beverage cartons. Photo: saveBOARD Matamata couple Toni and Martin Van Damm found out through Sustainable Matamata about saveBOARD’s wallboard product made from recycled materials. They decided to use it in their home renovations and are pleased they did. The product is created at saveBOARD’s Hamilton factory, where large volumes of finely minced cartons are pressed at high heat to form sheets of board. A Sustainable Matamata recycling

Members and intending members are welcome to attend the Sustainable Matamata Annual General Meeting, to be held at Merchant of Matamata from 6.30pm on Thursday 27 August. On the night, people will be able to sign up as members, vote in a new committee, watch a short movie, hear about and plan our projects and, of course, enjoy refreshments. We look forward to seeing you there. To ensure you receive our newsletter, which will advise the names of nominees to our committee, ple

The Sustainable Matamata gardening team who work at the Potager Garden at the Firth Tower & Museum found themselves in the company of Seven Sharp recently whilst also getting to know Steven Yin, owner-operator of New World Matamata. The TV1 reporters were covering the supermarket’s new “chat lane” at the checkout where you don’t have to rush but can strike up conversation. The gardeners once a month have a get-together at the Merchant of Matamata and there they were one fine