Our Past Projects
Our mission: to empower each other to manage menstruation sustainably.
United Sustainable Sisters is a Tāmaki WRAP project that began through a community response to issues around accessibility to women's menstrual products. Through creating awareness and increasing access to sustainable menstrual options we hope to alleviate barriers and reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill.
Key project areas:
Equipping women with reusable cloth menstrual pads. Depending on circumstance, involvement and choice, these can be donated or purchased.
Sewing menstrual pads using a social enterprise model to create and distribution.
Awareness and education on reusable menstrual options.
At the heart of our waste education we encourage people to ‘reduce, reuse and recycle’ - to support this foundation we are encouraging people to reduce by ditching single use plastic bags as we see the damage they cause to marine life and our oceans. Also, the incredible amount of energy and resources that goes into making a single plastic bag that is used on average for only 20 minutes is extremely wasteful. We are working to raise awareness on the associated pollution issues of plastic bags and to eliminate plastic bags from our community through grass roots action.
HubZero was a collective of waste based social enterprises in South Auckland
Tāmaki Wrap catalyzed and supported the formation and start-up of HubZero within the Maungakiekie-Tāmaki region.
We initiated the first HubZero co-ordinator and workshop space in Panmure in 2018-2019.
HubZero members utilised unwanted 'waste' materials and reclaim their value by restoring them, or, turning them into something new. They created products or services that addresses a significant waste stream as a way to reclaim our environment.
