Environmental Policy
(Firstly - so why the boring black background to all our web pages? ..... simple - uses less power)
Like most folk around these parts - and many others - we care about our environment and the impact we may have on it. Short of digging a hole and burying ourselves, it is impossible to leave no footprint at all - the best we can do is to try and keep our impact to a minimum and concider the environmental consequences of everything we undertake.
Our children and their contemporaries are now very much a part of the Mussel Inn team. Some are taking time out to start the third generation and we would like to think that the Mussel Inn will be able to support them and their children as it has us and our children.
Latest initiatives
October 2009: We are now shredding all the cardboard packaging we can for use as a high carbon bulking material in our composting toilets and what dosn't go down the dunnies will either be composted or used as mulch around our apple orchard. (see Anju in action)
Awards
In the 2003 Tasman District environmental awards, The Mussel Inn won first place in the business and industry section.
Click here to view our application form. This discribes pretty much what we do.
2006 - Winner of the sustainable business section of the Green Ribbon awards run by the ministry for the environment.
2007 - Winner of the "TRAIL BLAZER - SMALL AND MEDIUM" Sustainable Business awards - Southern Region.
Onekaka is the Green Capital of New Zealand. In the last election, the Onekaka polling booth scored 49.4% green votes!!!
FREE BEER!!
tHE Small furry animal tail bounty
In an effort to encourage control animal pests in our area, we offer the following bounties on their tails -
Possum - one free handle of beer or cider (worth $5.00) Having reached our goal of 5000 tails (and bugger all possums around here now) this bounty has now been suspended.
Mustalid (Stoat, ferret or weasel) - Two handles of beer or cider - worth $11
Cat - Two handles of beer or cider
Rat - a chocolate fish
The tally as at 1/10/09 is: possums - 5028 (on hold) mustalids - 745 cats - 73 rats - 140
The folks that reckon they know say that bounties don't work - well we reckon they have been offering the wrong sort of bounty!
