Letters: Recycling cost spurs poor choices
If it's difficult or costly to recycle or dump, poorer people will make poor choices.
If it's difficult or costly to recycle or dump, poorer people will make poor choices.
A peaceful end should be everyone's right. Why should the terminally ill be punished?
Warning - recycling habits are proving dangerous in Auckland.
Poor labelling and confusion to blame for recyclable items ending up in landfills.
Limit of three crates each leads to imaginative filling. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Parengarenga Incorporation tackles climate change issues with BioChar research project.
Replacing recycling crates will cost residents after council decision.
Tauranga sends too much household waste to landfill. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Aucklanders' food scraps will be collected kerbside from 2021 and turned into biogas.
COMMENT: The Prince of the Provinces has the money to do it: the Provincial Growth Fund.
More funding is being proposed to tackle New Zealand's growing waste problem.
Enough faffing. Here's what to do with those old cables, plugs and other tech stuff.
Profile: How Tauranga cartoonist Mig McMillan forged a path towards sustainable living.
Old and new televisions are now recyclable. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
An injured 2019 has led the Olympic pole vaulter to change her degree and priorities.
COMMENT: I do empathise. Change is scary for everyone.
Record-breaking volumes of plastic recycled through Agrecovery program.
You can make several in-home changes to make a real difference to climate change.
Associate Minister for the Environment Eugenie Sage and Mayor of Auckland Phil Goff announce $2.2m of government funding for a community recycling centre in Auckland’s Onehunga. Video / Leon Menzies
Fines up but not everyone is convinced the crackdown has seen dumping reduce.
The RNZAF is leading the way as commercial airlines scramble to embrace sustainability.
Eugenie Sage said a well-designed scheme would minimise an increase in costs to consumers
COMMENT: Less than 20 per cent of waste plastic generated globally each year is recycled.
A marketing researcher says "plastic shaming" could help drive a green consumer shift.
The MTG has been recycling for years and Laura Vodanovich is trying to do so at home, too.
Bus travellers are treated as second-class citizens despite their smaller carbon footprint
Figures show 38 per cent of household rubbish is still full of plastic.
COMMENT: 'Single use' plastic bags are nothing of the sort - they're multi use.
Fonterra aims to achieve its goals through a combination of investment and partnerships.
Associate Environment Minister Eugenie Sage speaks at recycling plant in Wellington. Video / Jason Walls