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Lesson in recycling captures kids’ imagination

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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

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.

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.

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.

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.