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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.
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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.
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.
New Silicone Recycling Scheme Launched – A First For New Zealand
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Wellington business Munch Cupboard is leading a new silicone recycling scheme. The pilot will collect and repurpose post-consumer silicone products in New Zealand and is the first of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere.
‘Where you Bin’ collection business dreamed up by 9-year-old living with brain injury
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Riley Silvester recently mastered tying his shoelaces, now he’s starting a bin collection business. The 9-year-old Waihī Beach boy lives with a traumatic brain injury, but hasn’t stopped him coming up with a string of ideas to help others.
‘Recycle the recycling’ – A message to consumers to rethink plastic and its uses
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In the battle for the environment, plastic is often seen as “Enemy No.1” – but sustainability experts say it needn’t be the case as they encourage a rethink on on the simplistic view that plastic is an option of last