30 Mar 2022

Chip packets recycled to make foil blankets for homeless

From Checkpoint, 5:56 pm on 30 March 2022

Chips are a staple snack or lunchbox filler for New Zealanders. But their foil packaging can take 80 years to decompose.

A new organisation, Chip Packet Project NZ, is taking the trash and turning it into treasure creating blankets, sleeping bag covers and even pillows for the homeless.

Visual journalist Samuel Rillstone and camera operator Marika Khabazi have the story.