Ruapehu District Council's waste minimisation education programme is running a series of zero waste workshops starting in Raetihi this Sunday at the Angel Louise Café followed by others in Ohakune and Taumarunui.
The first workshop is on making DIY zero waste toiletries and cleaners, with others on having a zero waste approach to household rubbish and zero wasting your pantry.
Waste Minimisation educator Emily Jasmine said that the new workshops follow on from the hugely popular beeswax wrap workshops.
"We had originally planned just to run the beeswax wrap workshops through July as part of providing a practical solution for Plastic Free July," Jasmine said.
"They were so popular however that we ended up running them through until the end of November.