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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.
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‘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
More than a beach cleanup, Māori Rugby League is teaching rangatahi about tikanga
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Black bin bags flap in the wind, and a small group of foragers makes its way along Petone beach, as the youth of Te Whanganui-a-Tara Māori Rugby League use their time off the field for good.
A guide to soft plastic recycling around NZ: Where to take it, what you’re missing
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A survey from KitKat revealed 54 percent of New Zealanders are accidentally sending their recycling to the landfill by including soft plastics in their kerbside recycling. Instead it needs to be dropped at a local soft plastics station.
Sport recycling campaign wants more businesses to jump on board
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A Whanganui sport recycling initiative is seeking community support to continue fuelling the programme. Sport Whanganui is working with the Replay to bring unused sports equipment from households to benefit schools and organisations.
Fletcher Building to convert tyres into cement
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Fletcher Building is hoping a new initiative will stop 3 million used tyres a year being sent to landfills, and instead use them in cement manufacturing. The tyres are burnt and the rubber, metal and ash combined into the cement.
Volunteers pick up litter at Caroline Bay as part of Seaweek
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Volunteers filled four rubbish bags in less than two hours while cleaning up Timaru’s Caroline Bay beach area as part of a national week celebrating the sea. Teenager Nora Quigley organised the litter pick-up alongside the Timaru District Council.
Seal of approval, two women remove tonnes of rubbish from seal colony
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Fishhooks, hundreds of shoes, 160 coffee sacks of rubbish, 48 tyres and 15 crayfish pots. That is just some of the rubbish Lorraine Shaab and Noeline Angus have removed from a seal colony on the Wainuiomata Coast.
Plastics and recycling – time to get organised
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While Kiwi shoppers have embraced the ban on single-use plastic bags, major businesses here are now working hard on long term solutions. There’s an urgent need to rethink and redesign the products we make together with their packaging.
Soft plastic recycling resumes in Christchurch
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Special recycling bins for plastic wrappers and bags have returned to four Countdown supermarkets and seven The Warehouse stores across Christchurch. More locations including New World stores will join the programme over the coming weeks.
Grandmother and grandson recognised as recycling champions
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Timaru residents Sandi Eathorne and her grandson Ethan Foster, 8, are the first people to be awarded prizes for good recycling habits as part of the district council’s new ‘What’s In My Bin’ campaign.