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Pablo Kraus: We must limit use of plastic
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Stockpiles mounting around NZ as recycling companies deal with China's foreign waste ban.
David Broome: Plastic bags are not our biggest problem
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Supermarket making money from waste
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Rob Fenwick: How to reduce city's waste mountain
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Food-scrap bin collection starts in Auckland
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Solar power fires up Kamo pizzas
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Prizes, volleyball on offer at beach clean-up
Youth to focus on environment with beach clean up
Plastic perhaps not so fantastic
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Local Focus: Taking the Bulls Bag by the horns
Goodbye to plastic bags and hello to the Bull Bag. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Marty Hoffart: China forcing start to serious recycling
COMMENT: New Zealand needs new incentives to improve recycling, writes Marty Hoffart.
Editorial: D-Day in battle against waste
EDITORIAL: New Zealand shamefully behind other countries - and we must do better.
Failed recycling boss guilty of $385k tax rort
Ferrari-driving television recycler whose firm collapsed owing $8.5m pleads guilty.
Sea of bottles: Coromandel's mountain of recycling
Thames-Coromandel produces the most recycling over the festive period.
200,000 tonnes of Auckland rubbish sent to landfill a year
It leaves the kerb in a bin and we never see it again - where does Auckland's rubbish go?
Auckland dad collects a years' worth of plastic
He was shocked to see just how much plastic had accumulated over the year.
Where NOT to dump your Christmas tree
Auckland council is begging residents to dispose of their Christmas trees responsibly.
Make your Xmas sparkle - just without the glitter
Banning plastic glitter doesn't have to take the sparkle out of the festive season.
Kim Pickering: The future of plastics
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Turning food waste into millions
EcoStock deals with eight double-decker buses of food waste every day.
Stint in Nepal sparks eco-friendly business idea
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China move prompts call for greener packaging
NZ packaging industry exploring greener approaches to help cut our waste stream.
Brian Rudman: Plastic bag ban needed now
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Teachers vow to make NZ schools carbon neutral
New Zealand schools will soon be "carbon-neutral" if the teachers have their way.
Worker's hand severed, $138k fine imposed
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