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A survey from KitKat revealed 54 percent of New Zealanders are accidentally sending their recycling to the landfill by including soft plastics in their kerbside recycling. Instead it needs to be dropped at a local soft plastics station.
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The pandemic has seen a surge in single-use plastics, with disposable masks, gloves and other PPE equipment ceaselessly washing up on beaches across the globe. If we act now, this could be a pivotal moment.
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A Whanganui sport recycling initiative is seeking community support to continue fuelling the programme. Sport Whanganui is working with the Replay to bring unused sports equipment from households to benefit schools and organisations.
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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.
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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.
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Congratulations to our RecycleKiwi Ambassadors Sam and Ben O’Dea, who won the Mauao Cup Beach Volleyball men’s final, after a nail-biting tie-breaker. The O’Dea brothers met with stiff competition in their opponents Alani Nicklin and Tom Hartles in what was
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Volunteers filled four rubbish bags in less than two hours while cleaning up Timaru’s Caroline Bay beach area as part of a national week celebrating the sea. Teenager Nora Quigley organised the litter pick-up alongside the Timaru District Council.
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Fishhooks, hundreds of shoes, 160 coffee sacks of rubbish, 48 tyres and 15 crayfish pots. That is just some of the rubbish Lorraine Shaab and Noeline Angus have removed from a seal colony on the Wainuiomata Coast.
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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.
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Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is washing up on coral reefs close to the Philippine capital, Manila. Environmental groups are warning that the plastic inside face masks is breaking down and being consumed by marine wildlife.
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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.
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A new bio-based plastic has been made by researchers at the University of Konstanz in Germany that can be recycled with near-perfect efficiency, recovering 96 per cent of the starting material.