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Robotics Takes Plastic Recycling To The Next Level

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Several new and exciting projects have taken root worldwide in the recycling industry that involves robots and artificial intelligence (AI). From large-scale to individual machines, these improvements to the sector will dramatically increase the recycling rate of municipal waste.

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.

Hello poo-powered dairies, goodbye recycling bins

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The New South Wales south coast is powering ahead when it comes to alternative energy projects, with dairies soon to be powered by poo and new solar farms being built, and plans for a state-of-the-art recycling machine.

Auckland factory producing recyclable meat trays

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An Auckland packaging company is working to remove the confusion around recycling plastic, one meat tray at a time. Pact Packaging’s Kiwi-designed meat trays – made from Polyethylene Terephthalate, or PET – can be recycled.

Newspaper recycling resumes for Lions

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The Gore Pakeke Lions are back in the paper recycling business as the price for recycled paper stabilises. In February last year, the recycling factory the club runs in the town stopped collecting paper.

Can the Tokyo Games get a perfect recycling score?

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Before the pandemic arrived and safety became such a high priority, the Olympic Commission announced it was to be the ‘most sustainable one’ since the Games started in 1896. But what does that mean exactly?