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RecycleKiwi is here to help schools, businesses and organisations to improve their recycling efforts with interesting and fun educational resources.

Education is the key to changing behaviours around waste minimisation. People of all ages need to understand the impact that waste has on our natural environment and learn the 4R’s of recycling.

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Introducing the 4 R’s of recycling

Say ‘No’ to waste.
This choice is powerful. Refuse plastic straws and packaging. Refuse anything unnecessary.

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Understand the impact that waste has on our natural environment. What are you doing to reduce waste?

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Give things a second lifecycle…reuse, repair and share. Wash and reuse containers and refill your water bottle.

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Say ‘No’ to waste.

Recycling is very important in reducing waste. Take care when separating recyclables.

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RecycleKiwi brings the 4R’s to your school

CrestClean is proud to announce the launch of a public education programme to help improve waste management in New Zealand.

RecycleKiwi shares fun and engaging resources and activities to educate kids and consumers on the 4R’s – Refuse, Reduce, Reuse and Recycle – which are critical to minimising the negative impacts of rubbish on our environment.

CrestClean’s Managing Director Grant McLauchlan says urgent action is needed and collectively we can all make a big difference by changing our habits.

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CrestClean’s Managing Director Grant McLauchlan at the launch of RecycleKiwi during the New Zealand Principals’ Federation conference.

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How to shop sustainably video

Beach Brothers News Stream

Check out our new video featuring the O’Dea Beach Brothers walking us through their local supermarket to share some useful tips on how we can make good choices while shopping to help reduce waste going into landfill.

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RecycleKiwi wings his way to the Olympics

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RecycleKiwi Ambassadors Sam and Ben O’Dea have taken a special travelling companion with them in their Olympic quest. ‘RecycleKiwi’ himself — the initiative’s feathered mascot — has taken flight with the beach brothers to help raise awareness about recycling and

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Beach Brothers’ Olympic quest

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Wishing RecycleKiwi Ambassadors Sam and Ben O’Dea all the best as they head off overseas in a bid to qualify for the Olympics. In a parting 1 NEWS interview Sam and Ben talk about their exciting training regime.

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Congratulations and good luck to RecycleKiwi’s beach brothers!

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Congratulations to our RecycleKiwi Ambassadors Sam and Ben O’Dea, who won the Mauao Cup Beach Volleyball men’s final, after a nail-biting tie-breaker.  The O’Dea brothers met with stiff competition in their opponents Alani Nicklin and Tom Hartles in what was

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RecycleKiwi ambassadors cleaning up in more ways than one

Beach Brothers News Stream

The environment is not the only thing RecycleKiwi ambassadors Ben and Sam O’Dea are cleaning up! The beach brothers are also ‘cleaning up’ at beach volleyball, their latest win being the Christchurch Super Slam at the weekend, which is part

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Sam O’Dea with students Cassidy Cooper, Layla McKinstry, Coco Edwards and Alpha Rae-Flick.

Athlete’s surprise visit a highlight for students

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Students who have been promoting RecycleKiwi at their school had a big surprise when Commonwealth Games athlete Sam O’Dea popped in. Sam decided to see for himself how youngsters at Ao Tawhiti Unlimited Discovery in central Christchurch have fully embraced

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Principals are quick on the draw as RecycleKiwi packs handed out

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Senior teachers got some hands-on experience of CrestClean’s new education initiative that teaches kids about recycling. Spread over two separate days, members of the West Auckland Principals and the North Shore Principals’ Association attended a leadership day at Kumeu. During

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Zoe Sizemore with one of the coloured-in beach scenes from the RecycleKiwi online gallery.

Kiwi beach scene sketch draws praise from artist’s children

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When Zoe Sizemore began designing RecycleKiwi’s colouring-in picture she didn’t have to look very far for some young eyes to critique her work. The Papamoa artist’s two children, aged 5 and 7, were the first to see the initial design

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Naresh Mani presents a RecycleKiwi pack to Leanne Hanna, Principal's PA/Office Manager at Red Beach School.

School embraces RecycleKiwi as resources rolled out

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CrestClean’s RecycleKiwi programme has really struck a chord with teachers at an Auckland school. After a RecycleKiwi resource pack was delivered to Red Beach School a “thank you” card was left for CrestClean business owner Naresh Mani, who takes care

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Mount Maunganui College student Tai Preece helped bring RecycleKiwi to life.

Talented young animator helps get RecycleKiwi off to a flying start

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Bringing RecycleKiwi’s iconic bird character to life was a challenge budding young animator Tai Preece took in his stride. The 13-year-old Mount Maunganui College student was invited by CrestClean to apply his animation skills to the kiwi bird, the distinctive

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Coastal Cleanups Provide Valuable Data

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On Saturday people all over the world will hit the beach – but not for the usual sun and surf. Instead of wearing wetsuits and carrying surfboards, they’ll be sporting gloves and rubbish bags because it’s International Coastal Cleanup Day.

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School has big focus on creating cleaner and tidier environment

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Students and staff at Queenstown’s Shotover Primary School have been doing their bit to help CrestClean personnel create a cleaner and tidier environment. CrestClean Central Otago Regional Manager Danny Mastroianni has been working closely with school property manager David White

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World Recycling View archive

‘Where you Bin’ collection business dreamed up by 9-year-old living with brain injury

Riley Silvester recently mastered tying his shoelaces, now he’s starting a bin collection business. The 9-year-old Waihī Beach boy lives with a traumatic brain injury, but hasn’t stopped him coming up with a string of ideas to help others.

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Toothpaste tube recycling on the way

After five years of research and development Colgate says it has developed a first-of-its-kind plastic recyclable toothpaste tube in a bid to reduce the 50 million tubes that end up in landfill every year.

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‘Recycle the recycling’ – A message to consumers to rethink plastic and its uses

In the battle for the environment, plastic is often seen as “Enemy No.1” – but sustainability experts say it needn’t be the case as they encourage a rethink on on the simplistic view that plastic is an option of last

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More than a beach cleanup, Māori Rugby League is teaching rangatahi about tikanga

Black bin bags flap in the wind, and a small group of foragers makes its way along Petone beach, as the youth of Te Whanganui-a-Tara Māori Rugby League use their time off the field for good.

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The RecycleKiwi Resources Pack

The RecycleKiwi Resources pack has everything you need to kick start your recycling programme. It’s free to order one for your school or workplace.

So, what’s in the pack…

A large wall poster to help promote recycling awareness.

Recycling Wall Poster

A sticker set to set up your recycling system

Use these stickers to easily turn any rubbish bins into recycling and waste separation bins.

A poster set to highlight your recycling system

These 5 colourful wall posters to display recycling information…great for highlighting your recycling station.

A RecycleKiwi colouring pad

All ages will love to colour in this beach scene illustration. You can also download a copy here and get creative!. Upload your art and we’ll put as many as we can up on our gallery.