Plastic-free challenge gets underway Choose plastic free alternatives this July. Could you go a whole month without generating a single piece of wasted plastic? Plastic-free July begins this week and Mahurangi and Kaipara residents are invited to take the challenge. To help on the journey, Sustainable Kaipara in Mangawhai will have a cup library on Wood Street so that shoppers can get a coffee without a takeaway cup. There will also be a visual display showing what a year’s worth of disposable coffee cups generated by a typical consumer looks like. Volunteers will be there to give advice on how to “break up” with disposable cups and packaging.