In its new Frankton home Go Eco is also close to the St Vincent de Paul Frankton soup kitchen and provides the surplus food it collects to about 60 charities each week with the main recipients being the Western Community Centre and Women's Refuge.
The service will get a larger custom-built chiller, another delivery van and a forklift, Fursdon said.
Also based in the new premises will be the centre's eco-shop, seed and curtain library, environmental information education centre and electronics recycling depot.
Fursdon said the centre needed larger premises to help grow its programmes.
"The move is prompted by the growing audiences at our events and workshops. More people are choosing to do the right thing and recycle their e-waste with us. Kaivolution has continued to expand its food re-distribution operations.
"The new space will be home to our team of educators, instigators and activators and will let us hold larger events, a greater variety of workshops, and offer community groups access to an improved meeting space. We're very close to the Western Rail Trail and public transport and there's better access for visitors, volunteers, and our food rescue and e-waste trucks."
The new brand Go Eco was adopted partly to avoid continual confusion with the Waikato Regional Council, previously Environment Waikato, and to better represent the group's ethos as an active catalyst for change, she said.
Opening month for Go Eco will see the Hello Frankton series of workshops and events including a bottle drive on August 12 to support the national Container Deposit Scheme campaign.
This is designed to bring to the attention of Government the need to have containers that can be recycled and re-used - and kept out of the waste stream.
The new-look Go Eco opened on Saturday July 22.
