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RecycleKiwi wings his way to the Olympics
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RecycleKiwi Ambassadors Sam and Ben O’Dea have taken a special travelling companion with them in their Olympic quest. ‘RecycleKiwi’ himself — the initiative’s feathered mascot — has taken flight with the beach brothers to help raise awareness about recycling and
Superdry and Morrisons sign up to clear polythene recycling initiative
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Mainetti, the global retail solutions provider, has started working with a number of retailers – including Superdry, Nutmeg at Morrisons and Very.co.uk – to provide a ‘world first’ closed loop clear polythene recycling initiative, Mainetti Polyloop.
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.
Cleaning up the plastic pollution pandemic
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The pandemic has seen a surge in single-use plastics, with disposable masks, gloves and other PPE equipment ceaselessly washing up on beaches across the globe. If we act now, this could be a pivotal moment.
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.
Beach Brothers’ Olympic quest
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Wishing RecycleKiwi Ambassadors Sam and Ben O’Dea all the best as they head off overseas in a bid to qualify for the Olympics. In a parting 1 NEWS interview Sam and Ben talk about their exciting training regime.
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.
Congratulations and good luck to RecycleKiwi’s beach brothers!
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Congratulations to our RecycleKiwi Ambassadors Sam and Ben O’Dea, who won the Mauao Cup Beach Volleyball men’s final, after a nail-biting tie-breaker. The O’Dea brothers met with stiff competition in their opponents Alani Nicklin and Tom Hartles in what was
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.
Microwaves could be the future for plastic recycling
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It’s been almost a decade since Jocelyn Doucet first experimented with recycling plastic waste in a microwave. Now he says the technology derived from those early efforts will make it possible to produce plastic almost exclusively from recycled materials.