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Jun 04, 2022

Our Refillery

Our Refillery
What is a Refillery?
A refillery is a place to fill your own container with a range of household and personal cleaning products. It is designed in an effort to reduce the waste of buying a new container every time you run out of a product. With a refillery, you can reuse your bottle over and over again!
How does it work?
Our refillery is located in our Wellington store. Simply weigh your container, refill with one of our many products, re-weigh and calculate - and you're good to go!
To order online, you must order a 500mL minimum. Find the desired product on our website and we will have it ready to send out to you. 
What we have:
In our refillery we have a range of brands- eco store, little foot, green goodness and more. We have everything from baby bubbles to dog shampoo! Find a broad range of bathroom products, such as conditioner, shampoo, hand wash, laundry powder...
In our kitchen range we have things such as dishwash powder and liquid, multipurpose spray and floor cleaner. 
To check out more of our variety of products, click here.
Collection point
We use our refillery and showroom as a collection point for the following items:

These will be recycled and/or sent to the Sustainability Trust to give them a new purpose. 

 

We'd love to see you pop in - find us at 471 Adelaide Road, Wellington. 

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Jan 11, 2022

Making a difference

Making a difference

Sharing with you a little more about the steps we have taken at Munch, verifying the eco and social impacts we are making. Here we list some of the certifications we have received.

Since our establishment in 2014 we have naturally worked from a sustainable, social and ethical premise. 100% sustainable kitchens for the world. We celebrate all businesses that are trying to save our planet even if those steps are small.  We do not critique the steps that have not been taken yet as we just need businesses to start.

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Apr 21, 2021

Product Stewardship - Silicone Send Back

Product Stewardship - Silicone Send Back

Anna recently joined a project group to raise awareness of product stewardship. Something we have been already doing and thinking about at Munch for the last 5 years, without really using the term. And something that Anna is very passionate to keep developing and experimenting with.

Product stewardship is about businesses taking responsibility for the products they make, sell and buy so their products don’t just end up in landfill. That means designing and making products to last, then putting systems in place to enable them to be reused and recycled when they are worn out.

‘SBN is leading Aotearoa Product Stewardship Campaign with a number of key businesses. It aims to raise awareness and increase the number of businesses involved in product stewardship’.

A group formed to focus on silicone products in particular, made up of a number of other businesses like Again Again, Wa Collective, Caliwood, ReusaBowl - and Munch - with more to come.

Munch is the first New Zealand collection point for a new pilot programme to repurpose silicone: Silicone Send Back.

As many of you know we chose to use silicone rather than plastic as a good alternative. The products that we use silicone for are:

Many of the Munch baby lines and the Munch Baby Shower products are made from Silicone.

The reason we choose silicone is because of its functional properties, these include thermal stability, durability, non toxic and elasticity. It is a great alternative to plastic. But the end of life of silicone products in New Zealand needs further consideration.

Currently in New Zealand there are no silicone recycling options. Even in the US, the recycling options are limited and are still in early stages. 

And the exciting news is that a pilot silicone processing facility is being investigated, as part of The Aotearoa Product Stewardship Campaign led by the Sustainable Business Network.

To avoid silicone products going into landfills right now, we can start to collect it and sort it.

Drop off any of unusable silicone products to our Refillery/Showroom at 471 Adelaide Road Berhampore Wellington.  If you are a Munch or nil products customer located outside of Wellington, let us know and you can be part of Silicone Send Back. We’ll send you a free shipping label to send it in to us and get it sorted for you.

Till next time.

Anna

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