Post To Post Recycling Trial In Progress

NZ Post has teamed up with The Packaging Forum to trial a courier pick-up service of soft plastics such as bread bags and bubble wrap for recycling into fence posts.

The idea for this business, called Future Post, came to farmer Jerome Wenzlick while building a fence on the site of a former rubbish dump. The passionate environmentalist became frustrated as his wooden fence posts continued to break when he rammed them through the waste plastic buried in the ground. His solution, to build stronger fence posts from soft waste plastic, is also a step towards solving a bigger environmental problem.

Wenzlick says it takes about 1500 bags to make one standard fence post and that the factory can produce about 800 posts a day which can be used in farms, gardens, parks and vineyards.