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Repost cofounder Greg Coppell.
After five years giving a new lease of life to vineyard posts, Marlborough-based company Repost is getting its own upcycle, in a joint venture with timber manufacturer OneForty One, which mills micronised copper azoleated (MCA) posts at its Kaituna Mill.
The local collaboration means Repost can offer a trellis post lifecycle service – for every MCA trellis post they sell they will repurpose a copper chromium arsenate treated post from the purchaser, diverting broken posts from landfill to give them a second life as farm fence posts.
It’s essentially a trade-in policy, says Repost cofounder Greg Coppell.
“It’s not often that the most sustainable solution is also the most economic one.”
Having already hit the headlines for recycling broken 2.4 metre vineyard posts into 1.8 and 1.6 metre, half and quarter posts for agriculture, Repost recently hit the milestone of one million posts recycled, diverting the CCA treated posts from landfill.
Repost is set to hit the million-post mark in 2025, having processed more than 787,500 posts from vineyards.
A major cost in getting farms back in operation is re-fencing, given the cost and availability of fence posts.
Plans to divert 3,750 tonnes of broken vineyard posts from landfill each year, while providing a cost-effective fencing option for farms, riparian plantings and significant natural areas, impressed judges in the 2023 Cawthron Marlborough Environment Awards.
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