Maui, Britz and Backpacker campervans is allowance to accumulate New Zealand apple-pie and blooming with the addition of LoveNZ recycling accessories for barter to use at their key Auckland & Christchurch branches.
The advertisement comes as afresh appear analysis by Tourism New Zealand (TNZ) showed that, according to all-embracing visitors, the better problems with New Zealand's accustomed ambiance are clutter - and the abridgement of recycling facilities.
Maui, Britz and Backpacker General Manager Marketing, Kate Meldrum, said the aggregation had consistently encouraged recycling amidst its agents but had been aggressive to up the ante afterwards audition about the Ministry for the Environment's "LoveNZ - Recycle with Care" initiative.
"We appearance it as a absurd way of acceptable our barter with adapted places to actuate their decay and advice reinforce New Zealand's apple-pie and blooming image," said Kate.
Environment Minister Trevor Mallard said it was absurd to see the government's action accepting best up by alone tourism businesses.
"This is absolutely what we were acquisitive for if we started the initiative. Without a charge from business to sustainability, the needs of environmentally affable tourists in New Zealand will not be met. It is acceptable to see the tourism area has committed to demography a administration role in attention and acceptable the environment."
Recycling abstracts appear endure anniversary by the Packaging Council showed that the aggregate of packaging recycled by New Zealanders added 14.5% amid 2005 and 2007.
"This analysis shows that Kiwis are acutely just as agog users of recycling accessories as our all-embracing visitors. The addition of recycling accessories at our Auckland and Christchurch branches agency both our calm and all-embracing travellers can abide to do their allotment for the ambiance even if they're abroad from home."
Maui, Britz and Backpacker is no drifter to ecology initiatives. Late endure year, the aggregation became the aboriginal New Zealand motorhome rental provider to voluntarily accept its absolute agile apart activated for car emissions. Its absolute Maui agile meets Vehicle Testing New Zealand's (VTNZ) "Five Star" in-service rating, which far exceeds all European benchmarks for low emissions. Any campervans that bootless to canyon even one of the accurate benchmarks accept been sold.
Kate continued, "Our barter accept commended our emissions testing programme and, alternating with our staff, accept proposed a amount of amiable ecology account that we are currently assessing for accomplishing in the advancing year.
"As an industry we still accept a continued way to go with commendations to ecology protection. But every new initiative, baby or large, is a footfall in the appropriate direction. With this in mind, we are 100% committed to the Ministry of Tourism's eyes of accepting tourism as the arch contributor to a acceptable New Zealand abridgement by 2015."
Notes to editor:
Maui, Britz and Backpacker Campervans & Rental Cars is endemic and operated by Tourism Holdings Ltd.
For added advice amuse contact:
Kate Meldrum
General Manager Marketing
Tourism Holdings Rentals Ltd
Kate.meldrum@thlonline.com
+64 021 222 1312 http://www.thlonline.com
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