Te Rōpu Whakakore Para Kirihou, AKA the Aotearoa Plastic Pollution Alliance (APPA) is a collaborative forum of researchers, educators, artists, activists and community leaders working to prevent plastic pollution in Aotearoa, Te Moananui-a-Kiwa, and beyond.
Our first APPA Newsletter is out today – 30 September 2022! Read on for important updates from the Aotearoa Plastic Pollution Alliance, including new single-use plastic bans and an announcement of our upcoming end-of-year hui Read more…
When: Sunday 11 December + Monday 12 December 2022 Where: Sustainable Coastlines flagship building, Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland) From December 11-12, APPA will be hosting our end-of-year hui in Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland), Te Ika-a-Māui. The two Read more…
We have some wonderful Marine Studies postgrad students and plastic pollution researchers from the University of the South Pacific who are looking for mentors, supervisors, and general support. Can you help? Click here to learn Read more…
APPA is a core and active member of the #breakfreefromplastic (BFFP) movement. We would love to hear from APPA members who are attending the 7th International Marine Debris Conference (7IMDC) in Busan, Republic of Korea. Read more…
Two of our brightest members, Hannah Blumhardt & Liam Prince (APPA’s chair) from The Rubbish Trip, have just produced & published their research article on zero-waste and developing Aotearoa’s circular economy. “From Lines to Circles: Reshaping Read more…
Join us December 2nd and 3rd for presentations and discussions from researchers, businesses, policy makers, artists and those interested in working together to mitigate and prevent plastic pollution in Aotearoa and Oceania. The 2nd annual Read more…
An article summarising a range of plastic pollution issues for a public interest media website, The Big Q. Co-written by Liam Prince (The Rubbish Trip; APPA Chair), Dr. Emily Joy Frost (Research Fellow, Auckland University Read more…
TVNZ’s Breakfast programme invited Massey University Environmental Anthropologist and APPA founding member, Dr. Trisia Farrelly, to discuss some of the broad issues around plastic pollution globally and in NZ. Check it out here:
In collaboration with the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) Asia/Pacific (of which APPA is a member), APPA Chair Liam Prince moderated a panel discussion with Hannah Blumhardt (NZ Product Stewardship Council, The Rubbish Trip Read more…
ABSTRACT This study aims to seek ways to prevent marine plastic pollution leakage in New Zealand’s commercial fin fishing industry supply chains. Drawing on a case study approach, this research investigates how sea and land-based Read more…
We pause to properly honour Richelle. Richelle’s legacy, both in APPA and in all of her mahi, is so large, multifaceted and positive that it is impossible to do it justice through words on this Read more…
On Thursday 23 July, as part of Plastic Free July 2020, APPA hosted an expert panel discussion, Plastics and the Pandemic: Perspectives from Aotearoa, at Te Papa Tongarewa (Museum of New Zealand) in Wellington. Our Read more…
At the end of 2019 and the beginning of 2020, APPA submitted on three important Government consultations—a proposal to declare some key products “priority products”, a proposal to increase and expand New Zealand’s landfill levy, Read more…
Stuff has released an article highlighting the range of cleaning and cosmetic products containing plastic and synthetic additives that are still being sold in NZ. These ingredients fall outside the microbead ban as it currently Read more…
Aotearoa Plastic Pollution Alliance (APPA) stands in solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter. APPA stands firm with all those around the world working to illuminate and deconstruct institutional racism, to demand an end to police brutality, and the Read more…
(Palmy’s) Plastic Pollution Challenge applies citizen science to find out how much plastic litter is in our urban waterways. The challenge was launched in Palmerston North in March 2019 and is now expanding through the Read more…
The day after APPA’s first ever AGM, New Zealand membership organisation for the spatial and surveying sector – Survey and Spatial New Zealand (S+SNZ) – held a workshop on ‘Mapping the Plastic’ on 7 December Read more…
On Friday 6 December 2019 APPA held our first ever public event – an expert panel discussion at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. The event was titled Navigating Plastic Pollution: Understanding the Read more…