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A Southland recycling company will invest $1.5million in a new plant with the aim to sort the region’s problem with bale wrap while generating potentially 20 new jobs.
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Recyclable cardboard bread tags to hit NZ shelves
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Nature’s Fresh is beginning to transition away from plastic tags – phasing in new recyclable cardboard bread tags one day a week from August 14, on all Nature’s Fresh loaves from its Auckland Bakery.
The group looking into recycling New Zealand’s EV batteries
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One of the biggest arguments against electric vehicles is the idea that batteries can’t be recycled in New Zealand. One Kiwi group that’s looking to offer an EV battery recycling service in New Zealand goes by the name of B.I.G.
Good foundations: The challenge of recycling beauty products
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When Sarah Bacon launched her skincare brand three years ago, her ethos was ethicality. Velettà, based out of her Seatoun home in Wellington, is vegan, cruelty-free, halal-certified, and set on reducing its carbon footprint.
New plastic bans target hard-to-recycle cutlery, meat trays, takeaway containers
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The days of plastic cutlery and cotton buds, PVC meat trays and polystyrene takeaway containers are numbered in New Zealand, as the Government moves to ban these hard-to-recycle products by mid-2025.
Beach Brothers’ final Olympic bid
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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.
The company wanting to turn your old T-shirts into roading
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Textile waste is spiralling out of control – annually around 220,000 tonnes enter landfill. Usedfully, the low-carbon clothing system is bringing together fashion and textile brands to try to find a Kiwi-based solution to close the fashion loop.
Car seat recycling hits 100k milestone
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The country’s only child car seat recycling programme has hit a major milestone after collecting more than 100,000kg of plastic and metal for recycling.
School Recycling Programme Fun For Students
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It’s been an exciting week for students at Pyes Pa School. A delivery of 27 plants has arrived as a reward for their recycling efforts – all part of the Paper4Trees programme they have been involved in since 2002.
‘Trucky McTruckface’ christened as one of Lower Hutt’s seven new recycling trucks
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Bruce Springclean, Trash Gordon and Trucky McTruckface are among the trashiest names chosen by Lower Hutt to name their new recycling trucks. Hutt City Council’s new recycling service is due to roll out in July.
RecycleKiwi hero Ollie is stuck on bins
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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
The 17-year-old who’s been cleaning her local beach since she was 10
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When Zoe Luffman took part in her first beach clean-up, she was 10-years-old. She loved all things marine, and had the T-shirt to prove it. Seven years on, she’s still cleaning up her local beach in Marlborough.