Kei te pīrangi a Aotearoa ki tētahi kaupapa whakahoki ipu, engari kāore te kāwanatanga i te whakarongo

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I tēnei marama ka puta i te Manatū mō te Taiao ngā whakataunga o ngā tono Whakahau Hangarua, ā, e 98% o ngā kaituku kōrero i tautoko i te whakahokinga mai o tētahi kaupapa ā-motu whakahoki ipu.

I te Maehe ka mahue, ka puta te whakataunga a te Pirimia, a Chris Hipkins ka whakakorea ētahi kaupapa here e pā ana ki te āhuarangi me te taiao. Ko tētahi i whakakorea, ko tērā o te Kaupapa Whakahoki Ipu. Ko tā tērā he whakanaminami i te hikinga ake o ngā utu o ngā kohinga ipu me te hangarua.

I puta i roto i tā te Manatū ripoata tērā whakaaro o te tini, ina oti tērā, he tautoko nui tērā i te whakawhitinga o Aotearoa ki te tukuwaro iti me te huringa pūtea ā-motu, te huri i te ngākau o ngā kaihoko me ngā kaihanga. Ko te mutunga mai, ko iti atu o te paru.

Hei tā te māngai o Greenpeace, hei tā Juressa Lee, he tauira tēnei o te tawhiti o te whakaaro i ō te hapori whānui whakaaro.

“E hia kē ripoata nā Kantar Better Futures e mea nei ko te kirihau tētahi take nui ki ngā iwi o Aotearoa, āpiti tahi ana ki te whakakī rawa me te ruapara.”

“E ngautata mai ana te kaupapa Hūrae Horekau Kirihau e āki ai tātou i a tātou anō kia kaha ake te tautoko i te whakakorenga o te take kirihau e noho nei tātou. Ā, hei te 1 o Hūrae whai mana ai tētahi anō wāhanga o te kāwanatanga rāhui i ētahi kirihau uaua ki te hangarua. Koinei te wā pai ki te koke whakamua, hei koke i tō Aotearoa hiahia, ā, kia whakahoki mai i te kaupapa whakahoki ipu.

“he maha ngā tāpaetanga i tautoko kia pupuri tonu i ngā pātara miraka ki te kaupapa, me te mārama hoki. Ka taea e te CRS te whakanui ake i ngā reiti kohinga ipu inu ki te 90%, kia whakakore ai i ngā ipu i te taiao me ngā ruapara. He maha ngā pāinga o te kaupapa whakahoki ipu, penei i te tuku mahi mō ngā hapori. E whakapono ana mātou ko CRS te huarahi tika ki ngā pūnaha me ngā hanganga o te whakakītanga me te hangarua, me te aha, ka katia te kōrere kirihau me te hūnuku i a mātou ki tētahi ohanga āmiomio. Ka angitū tātou katoa.

“Tata ki te kotahi piriona ngā ipu kirihou ka hokona atu i Aotearoa ia tau, me te kore whai mahere taikaha a CRS, me te wana-kore o te Mahere Mahi Kirihou Ā-Motu, kāore he māia, he wana rānei o te kāwanatanga e whai kiko ai ki te panonitanga ā-pūnaha” hei tā Lee.

I te tīmatatanga o tēnei tau whakarewahia ai e Greenpeace Aotearoa tētahi petihana, e tonoa ana te kāwana kia whakahokia mai te kaupapa whakahoki ipu, kua neke atu i te 12,000 ngā hainatanga kua whiwhia.

“kua oti ngā mahi katoa mō te CRS, ā, tērā pea ka hoki mai anō ki te ara tika mā te whakawhiti o tētahi pana. Inaiānei, Kua mārama te mana whakahaere a te kāwanatanga hei mahinga mā rātou” Hei tā Lee.

About the author

Juressa Lee (Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi, Rarotonga) is currently the Plastics campaigner at Greenpeace Aotearoa, working towards eliminating unnecessary single use plastic…s, banning colossal plastic waste exports, and transforming Aotearoa to a circular economy. The whakapapa of my whānau is a journey through Te Moana Nui a Kiwa. From the Whangape Harbour to Rawhiti via Ngawha, down to Tauranga Moana, over to Tupapa and Ngatangiia in Rarotonga, and north again to Tahiti. My tamariki, through their pāpā, also whakapapa to Toi village in Niue. I was raised by a mother who was always mindful of her impact on the planet, and navigated it accordingly. My dad has always enjoyed nature and instilled in us that there were responsibilities we had to be able to keep enjoying it. This was my very first influence. When I became an adult and then a mother myself, decolonising my life became a priority to raise my tamariki without those shackles. Along the way and without realising, my whakaaro around kaitiakitanga began to shift - I felt more responsible, but also more empowered. I am deeply connected to te taiao and am witnessing constant devastating impacts that plastics microplastics are having on ecosystems. Our oceans, waterways, beaches, and human health are impacted by this global issue. This problem is colossal, but so is our fight to protect te taiao. There are solutions to these issues. We need to “turn off the plastic tap”, we need the Government to ban all single use plastics, we need a refillable bottle scheme and we need to shift mindsets across Aotearoa that plastic is choking te taiao.