All NZ PetStock stores have been added to the Soft Plastics map category. Cleaned and dry plastic pet food packaging (from any brand) can be dropped off for recycling at these stores. This is a service made possible via Terracycle.
Animates stores will be added next.
In other news, we are now at 3947 map markers, very close to 4000!
This one took a while, but I got there in the end. 347 Re:Mobile mobile phone recycling locations are now live on the Mobile phones map category.
Next up, I will look in to adding participating pet stores that support soft plastic recycling. This tends to be limited to just the pet food packaging…but if you’re anything like my household, there’s quite a lot of that!
That’s right, RecycleMap turned 1 on 22nd August!
In that time, there have been 3400 unique visitors, and just under 4000 recycling location markers added across 18 map categories.
I’ve spent probably a bit over 200 hours working on this project in the evenings.
I’ve emailed all New Zealand councils twice, once asking for data, and another time updating them on where the site was at. Responses varied wildly from super supportive to super skeptical!
Also emailed a number of recycling scheme providers, supermarkets, charities etc, and had great support.
…So whats next?
There’s still a few more categories I want to add. But then I need to try my hand at marketing/advertising the site. It’s *great* that without any real advertising there have been over 3400 visitors to the site, but that’s still pretty low, and my grand vision of the site becoming self-sustaining with user-submitted locations hasn’t quite worked out. Maybe with more traffic it will?
Additionally, with almost 4000 recycling points, there’s a lot of juicy data to be analysed. It’s just begging for some spatial analysis to be performed to determine where in the country is best supported for recycling, and where is crying out for more facilities. What this space!
Adding RE:Mobile Spark locations. There are currently 3895 markers across all the maps on recyclemap!
All One NZ stores participating in the RE:Mobile programme have now been added to RecycleMap, bringing the total number of markers to 3781! There’s still over 150 more markers to add to the Mobile phone category though…
All participating Noel Leeming Stores are now listed on the Mobile Phone recycling category! Still many more to add though…