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Kiwi firm Mint has opened its Sydney refinery for extracting precious metals from e-waste, using micro-organisms. The Auckland-based startup will extract gold, platinum and other precious metals from old cellphones, laptops and other e-waste.
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The amount of Tauranga household waste ending up in the local landfill has nearly halved since the city’s ratepayer-funded kerbside collection service was introduced last year. The new kerbside service was launched on July 1, 2021.
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It was back to the classroom for CrestClean’s Auckland South Regional Director Viky Narayan when he spent the morning at Ormiston Primary School giving a lesson on recycling. Viky’s daughter Aanaya, 7, attends the school and he visited her class
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The Warehouse is giving Kiwis an easy and free way to make a sustainable choice this month, keeping toys out of landfill. Kiwis are encouraged to bring broken and ‘end of life’ toys into store for recycling.
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Tauranga residents can now recycle their soft plastics at 16 local grocery stores. The Soft Plastics Recycling Scheme, run by The Packaging Forum, gives participating supermarkets dedicated drop-off bins for soft plastics, such as bread bags and other food wrappings.
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Tararua’s new recycling service is scheduled to start in July. The new urban kerbside recycling service means residents in Dannevirke, Pahīatua, Eketāhuna, and Woodville will have their recycling collected directly from their homes, along with a glass crate.
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More than 20 Hastings volunteers from International WeloveU Foundation came together to clean up the Chatham Park on Chatham Road in Flaxmere, collecting 19 rubbish bags weighing 190kgs and retrieving three tyres and one bucket of broken glass.
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Sustainable waste reduction company SaveBoard, with a $2.7 million investment from Freightways, is working to expand and do more to help the environment, by converting products such as food cartons and courier packaging into sustainable building materials.
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Auckland-based Computer Recycling says its new $3.4 million system will enable it to process 2000 tonnes of computers, LCD TVs and mobiles a year. This almost doubles the amount of ewaste the company can process.
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The Government is calling on people to have their say on proposals to bring New Zealand’s recycling systems up to standard. Environment Minister David Parker says its current recycling systems are “inadequate”, and had resulted in lower rates of recycling.
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World leaders, environment ministers and other representatives from 173 countries have agreed to develop a legally binding treaty on plastics, in what many described a truly historic moment.
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A new recycling scheme being trialled by Wellington City Council is set to give used household batteries a new lease of life and prevent them from ending up in the landfill.