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A new app will use artificial intelligence to help Australians work out if their rubbish can be recycled. Recycle Mate is designed to end widespread confusion about what goes into which coloured bin.
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L’Oréal, Nestlé Waters, PepsiCo, Suntory Unveil World’s First Enzymatically Recycled Bottles
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The potential to endlessly recycle PET plastic recently became a step closer to reality, as a consortium of companies announced the successful production of the world’s first food-grade PET plastic bottles produced entirely from enzymatically recycled plastic.
Recycling face masks into roads to tackle COVID-generated waste
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Researchers have shown how disposable face masks could be recycled to make roads. Their study shows that using the recycled face mask material to make just one kilometre of a two-lane road would use up about 3 million masks.
New Recycling Methods Will Make Electric Vehicles Greener
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Researchers in Britain and the United States have found ways to reuse old electric vehicle batteries. The methods can cut costs and carbon emissions while providing supplies for an expected increase in demand.
Could cow stomachs solve plastic recycling?
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Cow stomachs could hold the secret to recycling plastic bottles, clothing and food containers made using polymers with titles such as PET, PBAT and PEF.
New plastic bans target hard-to-recycle cutlery, meat trays, takeaway containers
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The days of plastic cutlery and cotton buds, PVC meat trays and polystyrene takeaway containers are numbered in New Zealand, as the Government moves to ban these hard-to-recycle products by mid-2025.
Beach Brothers’ final Olympic bid
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Tauranga’s RecycleKiwi Ambassadors and beach volleyball stars Sam and Ben O’Dea will get their push to qualify for the Olympics underway later today.
The company wanting to turn your old T-shirts into roading
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Textile waste is spiralling out of control – annually around 220,000 tonnes enter landfill. Usedfully, the low-carbon clothing system is bringing together fashion and textile brands to try to find a Kiwi-based solution to close the fashion loop.
Recycling robot could help solve soft plastic waste crisis
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Engineering researchers are developing a unique method to increase the recycling of soft plastics by creating a smart robot that can identify, sort and separate different types of recyclable waste.
Car seat recycling hits 100k milestone
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The country’s only child car seat recycling programme has hit a major milestone after collecting more than 100,000kg of plastic and metal for recycling.
Unilever introduces paper-based bottles for laundry detergent
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Unilever is set to launch its first paper-based bottles for laundry detergent in Brazil next year, with an ambition in place to introduce the packaging across Europe thereafter.
School Recycling Programme Fun For Students
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It’s been an exciting week for students at Pyes Pa School. A delivery of 27 plants has arrived as a reward for their recycling efforts – all part of the Paper4Trees programme they have been involved in since 2002.