Selwyn Times: March 21, 2018
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SELWYN TIMES Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
Wednesday <strong>March</strong> <strong>21</strong> <strong>2018</strong> 5<br />
Lincoln Pantry goes reusable<br />
A LINCOLN boutique food<br />
store has ditched its disposable<br />
cups – and is challenging other<br />
businesses to do the same.<br />
The Lincoln Pantry will divert<br />
about 35,000 cups away from the<br />
landfill each year after switching<br />
to reusable cups only last week.<br />
The business officially<br />
launched its campaign on<br />
Thursday at an event officiated<br />
by Deputy Mayor Malcolm<br />
Lyall.<br />
With nearly 300 million<br />
disposable coffee cups going to<br />
landfill each year, The Lincoln<br />
Pantry owner Phillippa Boa<br />
said a drastic response was<br />
necessary and decided to ditch<br />
the disposables altogether.<br />
“It’s not just the amount of<br />
waste to landfill that’s created<br />
by the inability to effectively<br />
compost the cups, it’s also the<br />
amount of energy that goes<br />
into creating the cups in the<br />
first place, and the ongoing<br />
management of them in the<br />
waste stream thereafter,” she<br />
said.<br />
Mrs Boa said as a result, it is<br />
joining the BYO cup movement<br />
and, from now on, will only<br />
provide takeaway coffee in<br />
reusable cups.<br />
“Disposable cup-free pantry<br />
today, disposable cup-free<br />
Lincoln tomorrow? Disposable<br />
cup-free Canterbury and New<br />
Zealand hopefully soon to<br />
follow,” she said.<br />
To further encourage BYO<br />
behaviour, all purchases of keep<br />
cups from The Lincoln Pantry<br />
will be rewarded with a free<br />
coffee.<br />
Mrs Boa said the business has<br />
an affordable range of options<br />
– from basic bamboo and bioversions<br />
through to premiumbranded<br />
glass keep cups.<br />
For the “texters and serial<br />
forgetters”, the pantry offers<br />
a ‘swappacup’ subscription<br />
system. “People who text in their<br />
coffee order are usually on a<br />
deadline, so having to come in<br />
with their own keep cup would<br />
actually slow them up. With<br />
“swappacup”, they just swap<br />
their old cup for a new cup with<br />
their favourite brew all ready to<br />
go,” Mrs Boa said.<br />
She said it is ideal for those<br />
who forget their keep cup or<br />
those who haven’t had the<br />
opportunity to clean their cup.<br />
“But we’re more than happy<br />
to swap a dirty one for a clean<br />
one. The rewards for the planet<br />
CHEERS:<br />
Malcolm Lyall,<br />
Phillippa Boa<br />
and Sue Jarvis<br />
celebrating<br />
the launch of<br />
the Lincoln<br />
Pantry’s<br />
campaign to<br />
use reusable<br />
cups only.<br />
PHOTO:<br />
MARTIN<br />
HUNTER<br />
are worthwhile”. The Lincoln<br />
Pantry’s initial investment in<br />
reusable cups was made with the<br />
support of Lincoln Envirotown<br />
and it hopes the initiative will<br />
encourage other businesses to<br />
follow suit.<br />
•For more information go to<br />
The Lincoln Pantry’s Facebook<br />
page.<br />
•HAVE YOUR SAY: Do you<br />
think more businesses<br />
in <strong>Selwyn</strong> should ditch<br />
disposable cups? Email your<br />
views to georgia.oconnor@<br />
starmedia.kiwi<br />
Local<br />
News<br />
Now<br />
Darfield bus<br />
trial shut down<br />
Fire rages, homes at risk<br />
•From page 1<br />
Red Bus chief executive Paul<br />
McNoe said there were not enough<br />
people to make it commercially<br />
viable.<br />
“The patronage would have<br />
almost needed to double to make it<br />
a commercial success,” he said.<br />
But he said the effort put in by<br />
Bus Go Canterbury was appreciated.<br />
The bus service left Darfield at<br />
7.15am and Christchurch<br />
at 5.30pm. Mr<br />
Stoneman said it tried<br />
to change the evening<br />
bus to 3.30pm to pick<br />
up school children<br />
Nick<br />
Stoneman<br />
but the idea did not<br />
gain traction with<br />
Red Bus.<br />
Mr McNoe said<br />
this was because the survey indicated<br />
more people preferred a<br />
return time of 5.30pm. Residents<br />
travelling to and from Darfield<br />
were expected to pay $9 each way<br />
and children $6. Adults travelling<br />
from West Melton paid $6 each<br />
way while children paid $4.30, and<br />
residents travelling from Yaldhurst<br />
paid $5 and children $3.80.<br />
Mr Stoneman said the cost of the<br />
fare was also “not productive”.<br />
But Mr McNoe said if the fares<br />
had been halved more than four<br />
times the number of people would<br />
have needed to travel on the bus to<br />
make it viable<br />
Magical Park<br />
EverGreen Game!<br />
Celebrate Parks Week <strong>2018</strong><br />
by playing an exciting new<br />
augmented reality game with an<br />
environmental twist — EverGreen!<br />
Available at Lincoln Domain on Meijer<br />
Drive, Lincoln from 10–25 <strong>March</strong>.<br />
Turning recycling and rubbish collection<br />
into a fun and exciting game for kids<br />
rewards them for being responsible for<br />
their environment.<br />
EverGreen encourages kids and families to<br />
get out and explore their local parks whilst<br />
learning the fundamentals of recycling.<br />
· Average playing time 30–60mins<br />
· Average distance covered 700–2000m<br />
Other games to choose from:<br />
· Augmentia – find kittens<br />
· Prehistoria – collect dinosaur eggs<br />
· Alien Scape – save aliens<br />
Download the app on Android and iPhone.<br />
See the in-game instructions.<br />
GEO A.R.<br />
games<br />
The Loaded Dog<br />
Bacon, Frank, Onion Relish, Cheese<br />
S $5.90 L $6.90<br />
Farmhouse<br />
Bacon, Egg, Frank, Tomato Relish, Cheese<br />
S $6.90 L $7.90<br />
Bacon & Egg Dog<br />
S $4.90 L $5.90<br />
Classic Dog<br />
S $4.90 L $5.90<br />
Chips $4.00<br />
SAUCES<br />
• Sweet Chilli<br />
• Onion Relish<br />
• Tomato Relish<br />
SHED MEALS<br />
ADD & SAVE $3.50<br />
• Milk Shake<br />
• Hashbrowns<br />
• Chips<br />
• Tomato<br />
• BBQ<br />
• Mustard<br />
• Thick Shake<br />
• Coffee<br />
EXTRAS $1.00<br />
• Bacon<br />
• Cheese<br />
• Egg<br />
• Coleslaw<br />
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