Reduce World Recycling
Eight million metric tons of plastic enter the ocean each year. One way to reduce your impact is to just skip anything made of plastic.
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Reduce your Plate Waste
Kiwi Recycling News
The average Kiwi family wastes three trollies of food per year. There are so many smart ways to reduce what you scrape off your plate.
Take it One Item at a Time
Reduce World Recycling
Not quite ready to be completely plastic-free? You can still use this checklist to get started and track the impacts of reducing your waste.
Don’t Buy a New Notepad – Make One!
Reduce World Recycling
Cut down on paper going into the bin by reusing it as notepads. All you need to do is collect the used paper and find a bit of cardboard. For tools, it’s just alligator clips and rubber cement – or
Zero Waste in a Community Near You
Kiwi Recycling News
Join your local community towards Zero Waste, find helpful resources, host a waste-free event, connect with campaigns and much more.
Could you be plastic-free?
Refuse World Recycling
Could you be waste-free for one whole day? What about a week or a month? – Join people from all around the world and take the Plastic Free July Challenge.
Why not just recycle it New Zealand?
Kiwi Recycling News
Recycling is important, but it isn’t always the answer: much of our recycling is sent overseas where it isn’t always recycled properly…or at all.
Last Straw for Wellington
Kiwi Recycling News
After discovering that some Wellington restaurants were giving out more than 800 straws per week, a stretch of waterfront businesses banned them.
Recycling’s Dead End
Kiwi Recycling News
For years, New Zealand shipped all of its recycling to China, but in 2017, China started turning it away in order to clean up it’s own environmental issues.
CrestClean couple join volunteers in beach clean-up of littered coastline
Kiwi Recycling News
CrestClean business owners Dominik Drahoninsky and Barbora Opavova have been praised for their part in making a community-led beach clean-up a big success. The couple joined dozens of other volunteers to collect rubbish on Auckland’s Muriwai Beach. Event organiser Christina
RecycleKiwi brings the 4R’s to your school
Kiwi Recycling News
CrestClean is proud to announce the launch of a public education programme to help improve waste management in New Zealand. RecycleKiwi shares fun and engaging resources and activities to educate kids and consumers on the 4R’s – Refuse, Reduce, Reuse
DIY Wetsuit Zipper Repair
You can repair your own wetsuit zipper using some craft skills and basic equipment found around the house. Tools Required: a lighter, hotknife or small soldering iron sewing needle dental floss or heavy sewing thread small piece of webbing (Pro