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Old sports gear has been given new life thanks to a Taranaki project. The donated goods are collected, sorted and cleaned then handed out in packs to families, organisations, and schools across the region that will benefit from them.
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Mars, Snickers and Milky Way chocolate bars will have biodegradable brown paper packaging, designed to be more environmentally friendly, in Australia in April and New Zealand the following month.
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The brown L&P bottle is one of the most classic pieces of New Zealand iconography, but after 115 years, New Zealanders need to prepare themselves for a big change in how the product looks on our shelves.
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New records are being set for the amount of plastic being intercepted, and avoiding landfills. Polypropylene is now taken by nearly nine out of ten councils – that’s the likes of ice cream and margarine containers.
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Kiwi charity Keep New Zealand Beautiful is excited to announce the impact made during Clean Up Week 2022. Clean Up Week, which is New Zealand’s largest movement against litter, ran from September 17 to 23.
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Different regions across New Zealand have slightly different levels of recycling automation within their recycling infrastructure, some use a manual sort while others are more automated.
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A new Auckland Council trial aims to give large plastic items like laundry baskets, buckets, chairs, rubbish bins and storage boxes a new life. They can be dropped off at designated community recycling centres until the end of October.
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Kiwi firm Mint has opened its Sydney refinery for extracting precious metals from e-waste, using micro-organisms. The Auckland-based startup will extract gold, platinum and other precious metals from old cellphones, laptops and other e-waste.
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The amount of Tauranga household waste ending up in the local landfill has nearly halved since the city’s ratepayer-funded kerbside collection service was introduced last year. The new kerbside service was launched on July 1, 2021.
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It was back to the classroom for CrestClean’s Auckland South Regional Director Viky Narayan when he spent the morning at Ormiston Primary School giving a lesson on recycling. Viky’s daughter Aanaya, 7, attends the school and he visited her class
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The Warehouse is giving Kiwis an easy and free way to make a sustainable choice this month, keeping toys out of landfill. Kiwis are encouraged to bring broken and ‘end of life’ toys into store for recycling.
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Tauranga residents can now recycle their soft plastics at 16 local grocery stores. The Soft Plastics Recycling Scheme, run by The Packaging Forum, gives participating supermarkets dedicated drop-off bins for soft plastics, such as bread bags and other food wrappings.