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[Text on navy blue screen reads 'May 2024' at top right, 'Deconstruction of Category 3 properties. Where the recycled materials end up'. Screen also contains logos for Auckland Council and the Recovery Office. Chirping of birds in the background.]

[Video: Drone shot looking down on a house in a bush, the road and contractors. Text on screen reads, 'As we start removing the first storm-affected homes across Auckland, you might wonder where the salvaged materials end up'.

Another drone shot of a house in the bush with contractors and a crane at the site. Text on screen reads, 'Trow Group is working alongside us in Muriwai to deconstruct the homes and help the materials become someone else's treasure.']

[Joe Vagana, Trow Group Health and Safety Manager, talks standing inside a storm-affected house.]

Joe: "It is important for us that coming into a community like this, with still a lot of hurt from 12 months ago, that we do our bit to ease that. We lead with deconstruction."

[Video: Multiple shots showing damages inside the storm-affected property with Joe talking in the background.]

Joe: "So deconstruction, what it is in short is to salvage material and to give it a second life. That can be from carpets to framing walls to trusses to bathroom sinks."

[Video: Joe continues talking standing inside a storm-affected house.]

Joe: "Everything is reusable and we try and reuse as much as we can."

[Video: Shot of the insulation material and removed windows from a property.]

Joe: "One man's rubbish is another man's treasure. So, we find new homes for them to be reused."

[Text on screen reads 'Materials from Muriwai homes are going to the Helensville Community Recycling Centre, which looks for innovative ways to give them a new home.' In the background, is a shot of Helensville Community Recycling Centre with materials removed from Muriwai homes.]

Treena Gowthorpe, Helensville Community Recycling Centre Site Manager talks with materials removed in the deconstruction process in the background.]

Treena: "At the moment, the centre's focus is really on finding creative solutions to keeping waste out of landfill and getting people to understand that sometimes what they see as waste is actually a resource. Currently, we are diverting 78 per cent of material away from landfill."

[Video: Multiple shots of material removed during the deconstruction process.]

[Text on screen reads in blue 'What do they do before deconstruction begins?']

[Video: Series of shots of removed material during deconstruction including doors and sinks with Treena talking in the background.]

Treena: "We are going inside, we are looking at doors, we are looking at windows, we are looking at carpets. We are really drilling down to have a look at recovering the maximum amount from that property.

"To take the material that has come out of that disaster and create something special or even just make sure it stays in the community is really, really special and important to us."

[Video: Shot of Helensville Community Recycling Centre with materials removed during the deconstruction process. Treena continues talking in the background.]

Treena: "So, we are really inspired by this project to make sure that from a disaster, something comes that actually benefits the community.

"We have been supported with some money from the Rodney Local Board to explore doing some value adding maybe in the way of tiny builds or garden sheds with some of the materials and actually taking reused materials and turning them back into some things that can used again in the community."

[Video: Series of shots inside a community store with used things.]

[Text on navy blue screen reads 'For more information visit: www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/recovery.' Birds chirping in the background. Screen also contains logos for Auckland Council and the Recovery Office followed by aucklandcouncil.govt.nz on a white background.]

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