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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.
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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.
Major food brands launch fund for bag, pouch recycling
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Mars UK, Mondelez International, Nestle, PepsiCo and Unilever have jointly launched a $1.5 million fund that aims to invest in efforts to make plastic bags, wrappers, firms, pouches, packets and sachets easier for consumers to recycle.
Classroom in the rubbish: Lessons to be learned on the recycling frontline
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Get the recycling right – teach them when they are young – and we will start seeing a change for future generations. That’s the message behind a new education room at Hamilton’s recycling plant.
Polypropylene recycling from carpet waste
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A significant part of carpet waste consists of petroleum-based polypropylene. As a non-recyclable product, disposing of it has previously meant incineration or landfill. However, a new solvent is now making it possible to recover virgin-standard polypropylene from carpet waste.
‘Trucky McTruckface’ christened as one of Lower Hutt’s seven new recycling trucks
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Bruce Springclean, Trash Gordon and Trucky McTruckface are among the trashiest names chosen by Lower Hutt to name their new recycling trucks. Hutt City Council’s new recycling service is due to roll out in July.
RecycleKiwi hero Ollie is stuck on bins
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Bins, bins, bins… 7-year-old Ollie Chamberlain can’t get enough of them! So, when he received a pack of RecycleKiwi waste separation stickers in the post, he was super excited and quickly got to work labelling all his bins. “He spent