Education is needed to create a sustainable world, write Roger Browne and Mary Ann Baxter. These are referred to as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and encompass the physical and social world we inhabit. In rural New Zealand one of the most effective vehicles to deliver that education is the Reap (Rural Education Activities Programme). Our local Reap, based in Alexandra, services an area stretching from Makarora in the west to the outskirts of Dunedin, and up into the Maniototo. Globally, waste production is forecast to triple by the end of the century in the absence of any measures to counter this trend.

Source: Otago Daily Times July 22, 2019 16:30 UTC