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Local Focus: 'We need to look after our environment'

Shilo Kino
By Shilo Kino
Video Journalist, Bay of Plenty, NZH Local Focus·NZ Herald·
11 May, 2019 05:00 AMQuick Read

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Western BOP Councillor Mark Dean talks to Local Focus. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Western Bay of Plenty District councillor Mark Dean talks to Local Focus about the environment and development ahead of October's local body elections.

Dean has lived in Oropi for 40 years, playing a key role in balancing business growth with environmental sustainability, including founding business Naturally Native NZ Plants.

He wants to use his area of expertise to improve environmental sustainability.

"There's over 100,000 tonnes of waste that goes over the Kaimais every year to landfills, and we can really do a lot to reduce that when 40 per cent of that is food products," he says.

"We have to look after our environment."

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