Save Future Post. Save NZ Recycling.

Hi Megan — thank you for asking this, and also for recognising that there may be a bigger role for the companies creating the plastic in helping support the recycling system.

Just to clarify, Future Post doesn’t recycle Tetra Pak. Tetra Pak is a different material stream, with companies such as SaveBOARD working in that space.

Future Post’s role has been focused primarily on hard-to-recycle soft plastics and other suitable waste plastics, turning those materials into long-life products here in New Zealand.

There are certainly businesses and organisations that have supported the broader recycling system over the years, and we’re grateful for those relationships. However, we haven’t seen direct support for this current fundraising campaign from a number of the large companies that manufacture, sell or use significant volumes of plastic packaging.

Our understanding is that many of these organisations are members of the Soft Plastics Forum and rely on the Forum and the wider industry system to support the recycling pathway.

That’s probably where the collective voice of New Zealanders could make a real difference.

Rather than pointing fingers, perhaps we can start asking a simple question of the companies that put large volumes of plastic packaging into the New Zealand market:

“What can you do to help ensure there is a viable local end market for the plastic you produce?”

Tagging companies in posts, sharing the Future Post story and respectfully asking them to get involved could be a really positive way of reminding them of the work that has been happening in Waiuku for the past eight years.

We would love to see more of the companies at the beginning of the plastic supply chain become part of the solution at the end of it.

As ultimately, that is what this is about — not blaming anyone, but getting everyone around the same table to help keep New Zealand’s recycling infrastructure alive.

Making sure that where possible Future Posts upcycled product is purchased and/or working with Future Post to develop solution that work for big retail.

I must say the outpouring of support we’ve had from the public; our customers and suppliers is a little overwhelming and very humbling. Kiwis are a bloody amazing lot. We are just letting this sink in for now, but we will be reaching out in the future to say thank you to Seven Sharp.

Thanks Ron - yes all of the above can be made from our products, please check out our website https://www.futurepost.co.nz/ and look at the Sectors page you will see examples of our product in use.

Thank you for your Support Antonia, glad that you have been recycling your soft plastics. At future post we can use all soft plastic our process allows for a small amount of contamination but this isn't the case for other recyclers best to check out https://www.recycling.kiwi.nz/ for more information. Yes we can take Bubble wrap and you can drop it off at the soft plastic bins.

Hey Kevin, We are about 150K away from having the biggest smile on our faces, with all the support we are seeing and people also talking about buying our products in the future, its looking good for Future Post - thank you for your support.

Morning Felicity, all the funds will be used to help us recover, the target is what we need to get free from all the clean-up costs, but every little bit goes a long way to helping us get back on our feet.