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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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Beach Brothers’ Olympic Quest

Follow RecycleKiwi Ambassadors Sam & Ben O’Dea on their quest to compete at the Tokyo Olympics

Beach volleyballers standing on winners' podiums.

O’Dea Beach Brothers win Gold in Switzerland

3 August, 2021

RecycleKiwi Ambassadors Sam and Ben O’Dea have ended their international beach volleyball tour on a high, winning gold in Switzerland. The beach brothers won 2-1 against Switzerland in the final of the Coop Beachtour, which was held in Olten on

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Beach Brothers’ final Olympic bid

25 June, 2021

Tauranga’s RecycleKiwi Ambassadors and beach volleyball stars Sam and Ben O’Dea will get their push to qualify for the Olympics underway later today.

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How to shop sustainably video

12 May, 2021

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

19 April, 2021

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

7 April, 2021

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!

26 March, 2021

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

25 February, 2021

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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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.

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.

NEW VIDEO – How to reduce waste on your next shop

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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.

Learn more about Refusing

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

Learn more about Reducing

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

Learn more about Reusing

Say ‘No’ to waste.

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

Learn more about Recycling

Beach Brothers’ final Olympic bid

Beach Brothers News Stream

Tauranga’s RecycleKiwi Ambassadors and beach volleyball stars Sam and Ben O’Dea will get their push to qualify for the Olympics underway later today.

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RecycleKiwi hero Ollie is stuck on bins

News Stream Recycle Reduce

Bins, bins, bins… 7-year-old Ollie Chamberlain can’t get enough of them! So, when he received a pack of RecycleKiwi waste separation stickers in the post, he was super excited and quickly got to work labelling all his bins. “He spent

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70,000+ RecycleKiwi stickers improve recycling habits across New Zealand

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A growing appetite for effective recycling has seen more than 70,000 RecycleKiwi waste separation bin stickers distributed throughout New Zealand. RecycleKiwi, a public education programme to help improve waste management, was launched 20 months ago by commercial cleaning company CrestClean.

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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

News Stream Reduce

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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Stickers in te reo Maori encourage kids to adopt good recycling habits

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Six words in te reo Maori are helping to teach New Zealand kids good recycling habits. The words feature on a set of colourful bilingual stickers that are a key component of RecycleKiwi – a brand new initiative aimed at

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Regional Manager Glenn Cockroft and franchisee Kim Jin present a RecycleKiwi pack to Julian Ineson, Principal of Invercargill’s St Theresa’s School.

Warm welcome for RecycleKiwi in Invercargill

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RecycleKiwi has landed in Invercargill with the first resource pack being presented to Invercargill’s St Theresa’s school. Principal Julian Ineson was delighted to receive the colourful box from CrestClean’s Invercargill Regional Manager Glenn Cockroft, and franchisee Kim Jin, who has

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World Recycling View archive

Natural enzymes revolutionize plastic recycling

Plastic recycling is still in its infancy – only a small part of the waste is recyclable. Natural enzymes could get the circular economy going.

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Auckland factory producing recyclable meat trays

An Auckland packaging company is working to remove the confusion around recycling plastic, one meat tray at a time. Pact Packaging’s Kiwi-designed meat trays – made from Polyethylene Terephthalate, or PET – can be recycled.

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Newspaper recycling resumes for Lions

The Gore Pakeke Lions are back in the paper recycling business as the price for recycled paper stabilises. In February last year, the recycling factory the club runs in the town stopped collecting paper.

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Can the Tokyo Games get a perfect recycling score?

Before the pandemic arrived and safety became such a high priority, the Olympic Commission announced it was to be the ‘most sustainable one’ since the Games started in 1896. But what does that mean exactly?

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