These five speakers set the scene, introduce us to some key concepts and get us thinking about the circular economy, emissions and strategies to reduce waste.

Eilidh Hillson, a waste minimisation officer at Christchurch City Council, takes us through what we send to landfill and how it creates greenhouse gas emissions

Kahurangi Carter (Ngāti Maniapoto), a Regional Manager at Para Kore, introduces the concept of circular economy and what that looks like from a Māori worldview

Dr Paul Smith, design engineer and product test manager for Consumer NZ, explores repairing goods and our legal right to repair

Sue Coutts, former GM of Wanaka Wastebusters and zero waste advocate, outlines the national goals of the Zero Waste Network

E Wen Wong, a first-year Law and Science student at the University of Canterbury and a published poet, reads some poems responding to climate change.