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Our Mission

Zero Waste Hubs are part of an alternative waste infrastructure. We divert goods and materials from landfills and breathe new life into reusable resources to bring high quality, high value products to our local communities at prices everyone can afford.

Along with the Zero Waste Charity Store, Tāmaki Zero Waste Hub and Wairau Zero Waste Hub, we are operated by Localised, a social enterprise that is owned by Zero Waste Aotearoa.

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A pile of crumpled clear plastic water bottles with blue caps.

What we stand for

Te Kore, in Māori tradition, represents the realm of infinite potential - the place where everything exists as possibility just waiting to be realised. What the modern world calls “waste” is the perfect embodiment of Te Kore. It is only labelled “waste” because we have failed to recognize and harness its abundant potential.

At the Zero Waste Hubs, waste is never wasted.
We stand for fulfilling waste’s potential through repair, reuse, redesign, and recycling.

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