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Plastic Post Idea Comes Full Circle at Blenheim Landfill - Stuff, February 2021

Plastic Post Idea Comes Full Circle at Blenheim Landfill - Stuff, February 2021

Fence posts made of 100% recycled plastics are popping up at a Blenheim landfill, coming full circle for the project originally conceived on an old rubbish dump.

Stuff, 11th February 2021

Future Post founder Jerome Wenzlick was fencing on an old landfill site, having broken several wooden posts on buried plastic waste, when he wondered if the stubborn plastic could be reused as posts.

A few years later, a few hundred recycled plastic posts are being used for a boundary fence at Blenheim’s Bluegums Landfill, along with a few hundred more in the nearby Wither Hills Farm Park.

Read full Stuff news article here: Plastic post idea comes full circle at Blenheim landfill | Stuff.co.nz

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