Kiwi Recycling News

Package-Free Shopping on the South Island

Kiwi Recycling News

Auckland-based GoodFor, which sells bulk products to customers who bring their own jars and boxes, is moving to Christchurch and opening a Wellington shop in November. GoodFor goes beyond the plastic bag ban and sells food and other household items

Students Study Rubbish Bins for Solutions

Kiwi Recycling News

It may seem disgusting to dig through rubbish bins, but these Marlborough Girls College also say “It’s kind of disgusting to think how much food goes to waste.” The girls undertook an audit of all the waste generated by their

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

Principals quick to get on board with RecycleKiwi

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RecycleKiwi was officially announced at the 2019 New Zealand Principals’ Federation conference, of which CrestClean is a Gold Business Partner. Principals from around the country listened intently as CrestClean’s Managing Director Grant McLauchlan explained RecycleKiwi and showed a short video

Reduce your Plate Waste

Kiwi Recycling News

The average Kiwi family wastes three trollies of food per year. There are so many smart ways to reduce what you scrape off your plate.

Last Straw for Wellington

Kiwi Recycling News

After discovering that some Wellington restaurants were giving out more than 800 straws per week, a stretch of waterfront businesses banned them.

Recycling’s Dead End

Kiwi Recycling News

For years, New Zealand shipped all of its recycling to China, but in 2017, China started turning it away in order to clean up it’s own environmental issues.