WHAT WE DO
Since 2024, Noughty Wasters has been creating spaces and opportunities for creative play with discarded items otherwise destined for landfill. You’ll find us at our zero waste makerspace based out of Resource Recovery Devonport, or delivering programmes across Tamaki Makaurau in schools and communities. We are proud to be nurturing a generation of Kiwis who will carry on the No.8 wire tradition as creators and makers, while bringing mindfulness to their choices as consumers.
OUR STORY
Noughty Wasters was originally born out of inorganic collection piles across Auckland. Our founder, Ann Langis (aka Mrs. Noughty), noticed how her 3 children were fixated on these discarded items and loved fossicking for treasures to bring home. Ann, a Harvard-trained educator with 30 years of experience, noticed that even seemingly boring, everyday items found there would often spur unexpected creativity.
When Resource Recovery Devonport approached Ann about heading up their new education space in 2024, Noughty Wasters was born! Offering school holiday programmes, school/ECE visits, and workshops, our programmes teach the skills needed to reduce, reuse, recycle, and repair. We also offer engaging waste education programmes and events for children and families across Tamaki Makaurau, in schools, centres, and public spaces, as well as innovative team-building experiences for organisations.
Our team of educators are passionate about the power of play and creativity to grow the conscious consumers and skillful makers of tomorrow, join us!
PARTNERS
Many wonderful organisations have helped bring Noughty Wasters to life. Of course we would not exist without our founding partner Resource Recovery Devonport who believe 100% in our vision for the programme, and generously provides our physical space and the resources used in our programmes.
Auckland Council is another staunch supporter of our mahi, in particular through the Waste Minimisation Fund and Devonport-Takapuna Local Board. Funding from Rodney, Hibiscus and Bays, and Upper Harbour local boards has allowed us to make our programmes more accessible, both financially, and geographically as we have expanded into mobile programmes and activations.
Would your organisation or business be keen to support our mahi? Please get in touch!
To live means to buy, to buy means to have power, to have power means to have responsibility.
Florence Kelley, first general secretary of the National Consumers League