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Why don’t more clothes get recycled? New techniques could help
Fashion contributes to massive textile waste, with 85% ending up in landfills.
Push for higher farm plastic recycling targets
Farmers use more than 10,000 tonnes of plastic bale wrap annually.
The hotels with the highest usage of power, water and waste
Hotels in Nelson/Marlborough use over 250,000 litres of water annually per room.
Letters: Treat China as a valued friend, despite war games
OPINION: 'We need a reset of our relationship with China.'
Major review links microplastics to reproductive, digestive harm
Researchers urge governments to ban single-use plastics immediately.
What’s causing a spate of rubbish truck fires in Auckland?
Residents are being told off for inadvertently causing rubbish truck fires.
Rotorua food and green waste collection to start next year
What it will cost eligible households.
Why Auckland Council confiscated more than 100 recycling bins
At least two warnings were served on households before the bins were taken away.
Opinion: We're wasting our waste when it could be powering our economy
OPINION: Our waste per capita levels are high and recycling low, but progress is possible.
The fishing rods and the church organ: Finding treasure at Napier's community recycling day
Recycling raises funds for grants, benefiting projects like murals and community gardens.
Nature Baby's ready to stretch and grow
Kiwi organic babywear brand Nature Baby, launched 25 years ago, is ready for its OE.
Best of the Bay: What Napier residents love the most – and the least – about the ‘Art Deco Capital’
Napier mayor welcomes public feedback - the main gripes will be listened to.
Spring cleaning: How to declutter your beauty drawer
Plus refillable products to help you start over more sustainably.
'Ridiculous': Auckland Council's graveyard of rubbish bins cost $800-$1000 each
Auckland Council estimates savings of $600,000 to $800,000 by reusing removed bins.
Fears for safety as live shotgun cartridges again found by recycling sorters
Recycling is sorted by hand, by real people, manager says.
Chemicals in plastics ‘threaten human life cycle’
The negative impacts of plastics show increased health risks at every age.
Rural residents 'in the dark' about kerbside recycling
'The cost of getting a truck out there is ridiculous.'
Heather du Plessis-Allan: We’re getting close to an energy crisis
OPINION: Our electricity prices last week were said to be the highest in the world.
Can you still bag a bargain at op shops?
Shoppers have noticed a marked increase in prices at their favourite opportunity stores.
So far so good for kerbside recycling service
'We are seeing tonnes and tonnes of recycling not going to landfill.'
Sex toys and dirty nappies among things some try to recycle
But the biggest headache for the council’s waste team isn’t the downright dirty.
Rising energy costs could force closure of Oji Fibre Solutions recycling plant
'Crazy outcome' could follow as high power prices blamed for plant's possible closure.
Live ammunition, needles and deer carcass amongst items found in recycling
'Sheer luck' shotgun cartridge made it through process without going off.
Jaguars, BMWs abandoned, AT sells hundreds of dumped vehicles
The bane of many a berm: How much are those abandoned cars worth?
Opinion: Waste and recycling sector is not a cash cow
OPINION: Our country will generate more waste, recycle less, and emit more.
Ethically Kate: How should we dispose of expired batteries?
OPINION: ‘Batteries are a ticking time bomb in recycling bins.’
Ethically Kate: Why your old phone can’t go in the rubbish bin (and what to do instead)
The hidden dangers of dumping your old phone.