The Environmental Business Action Group (EBAG) brings together the private and public sectors, focused on three core objectives:
- Event Recycling
- Public Place Recycling; and
- Business to Business mentoring
High profile events which benefited from EBAG's involvement include the Ellerslie Flower Show, Coca-Cola Christmas in the Park and Auckland Round the Bays, with the jewel in the crown being the 2008 WOMAD event held in Taranaki in March. Viewed in the New Zealand events industry as a pioneering project, WOMAD set a precedent in waste minimisation achieving an outstanding 86% diversion of waste to landfill.
The Taranaki Arts Festival Trust said: ‘Zero Waste at WOMAD in the first year achieved outstanding success which we can attribute to the contribution made by EBAG and we hope to have the opportunity to work with EBAG again in the future.’
EBAG collated its work and achievements into a portfolio of examples which it entered into the 2008 Green Ribbon Awards and the Manukau Business Excellence Awards.
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