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Orewa College student Alice Watkins is on a mission to rescue as big a bunch of Daffodil Day flowers from landfill as possible.
The flowers which are handed out in return for donations to the NZ Cancer Society on Daffodil Day (August 30) are synthetic and cannot be composted or recycled.
It seems likely that most are put in the bin when Daffodil Day is over and end up in the landfill, but 16-year-old Alice has come up with an alternative.
“My cousin was volunteering and sold quite a few and I thought, ‘what happens to them afterwards’?” Alice says. “The Cancer Society is a great cause but more waste is not what the environment needs right now.”
Alice enjoys creating art, so she decided to collect as many of the flowers as possible and turn them into an art piece.
This will then be sold and the money donated to the Cancer Society.
She says she is thinking of doing a similar thing with Anzac Day poppies next year.
Currently Alice has collected around 20 daffodils, but ideally needs closer to 50 for her mural.
To donate your Daffodil Day flowers to Alice, they can be dropped off at Hibiscus Matters’ office, 21 Florence Ave, Orewa during business hours.
