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COMMENT: Little things can tell voters a lot about their local government. The Super City's new inorganic recycling service came to our house this week.

The body found in cardboard bales has been identified as Te Awamutu father-of-three Daniel Bindner.

A blessing is to be held on the site of the Frankton cardboard processing factory where a body of man was found in a cardboard bale.

Recyclable collections are set to get easier for more than 210,000 households in Rodney, North Shore and Waitakere.

A recycling initiative by Auckland Airport has halved the amount of aircraft waste being sent to landfill.

Rokkasho reprocessing complex in a northeast corner of Japan's main island of Honshu is raising speculation.

Kiwis whose kitchen drawer or cupboards are brimming with plastic bags, are in luck.

In New Zealand, we discard 1.6 billion plastic bags a year, yet the Government is happy leave it to the industry to do the right thing, Brian Rudman writes.

Traffic congestion could be reduced if the council made it compulsory for commercial premises to display their number.

Privahini Bradoo is working to help solve the world's waste problems through her company which aims to extract reusable metals from electronic waste.

Barnardos has always led the charge in putting children first. The Garden Project is their newest initiative to promote gardening among South Auckland children and families...

High hopes for creating jobs from rubbish are pinned on a community-run recycling hub which has opened in South Auckland.

Charging for plastic bags disrupts habitual behaviours and helps people draw a linkage between environmental awareness and actions.

The Government has thrown its backing - but not its money - behind a mobile phone recycling programme.

A North Island New World has cut its waste from 11 tonnes to 3.6 tonnes a month in the biggest recycling initiative by the country's largest supermarket chain.

Inorganic collections - long adored by bargain hunters and despised by berm lovers - are being chucked out.

Upper North Island residents who have unwanted TV sets following Sunday's digital switchover are being urged to drop them off for recycling.

New rules for how people in the country's biggest cities deal with their trash are coming in to force on Nov 1. Do you know what they are?

As a (fairly) new father, Sam Judd lists his top 5 ways to help raise an eco-friendly kid.

Young New Zealander of the Year and environmental columnist Sam Judd, is proposing that New Zealand should become the mining hub of the South Pacific.

Sam Judd presents a scathing case against the "Not In My Back Yard" phenomenon, which causes inequality, exploitation of developing countries and horrific environmental destruction.

Environmental columnist Sam Judd takes a look at this year's Unpackit Awards - a competition for a good cause.

China's recent 'Green Fence' policy has the recycling industry very worried. Sam Judd takes a look at what this could mean for New Zealand and what we, as individuals, could do better.

Auckland Museum is being touted as a green example for other city organisations after it succeeded in slashing its carbon footprint by 30 per cent in just two years.

Thieves have some brewers over a barrel.

A world-leading recycling facility that opened today in Upper Hutt will break down nappies into a safe, odourless compost instead of sending them to landfill.