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New rubbish and recycling bins with street cred have been installed at Ashburton’s skate park. Members of the Ashburton Youth Council commissioned the bins after surveying skaters and visitors at their annual Skate Jam.
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Old student couches and household items given new life
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Old couches on Castle St, a notorious party street in the heart of Dunedin’s student quarter, will soon have a new home. They are now being recycled as part of ‘Diversion Day’
Fertiliser bags now able to be recycled
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Free recycling of plastic agricultural bags is now available to farmers and growers. This initiative is part of a broader plan that AgRecovery is developing, with the government and industry, to set up product stewardship schemes for the sector.
Taking the rubbish out of recycling
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Each week the diminutive 85-year-old heads out with her foster son Keith. They’re on a mission to check the recycling collection points at remote communities on Banks Peninsula.
Plan aims to boost plastic recycling
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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.
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.