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Lockdown: Auckland Council waste collection to continue
Chris Darby asked people to be forgiving if their waste bins were not collected.
Solutions needed for Whanganui paper and cardboard crisis
A Whanganui think tank has been proposed to address paper and cardboard crisis.
Local Focus: Napier's recycling programme a crate success
Limit of three crates each leads to imaginative filling. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Tidy Kiwi cleans up Karangahake Gorge single-handedly
Quinn Barker is a very tidy kiwi and he has 350 bags of litter to prove it
Cadbury announces changes to chocolate blocks
The trial is taking place nowhere else in the world, only New Zealand.
Cheeky Christmas hack to get rid of your reusable bag collection
This is a win-win-win solution for those that collect massive haul of bags after shopping.
Letters: The rising cost of being a tidy Kiwi
Just watch the rise in illegal dumping because people can't afford to be law-abiding.
Crackdown on plastic: Takeaway containers next in line for ban
Jacinda Ardern says the ban on plastic bags had made a difference to confront waste.
Editorial: NZ's excuses on plastic pollution fail to stack up
EDITORIAL: Recycling is not actually an achievement but an acceptance of failure.
Our plastic recycling: NZ's waste 'poisoning' Indonesian villages
Our exports of plastic waste there have doubled in the past few years.
Healthy land, healthy people: What the Lakes DHB is doing to be environmentally-friendly
Rotorua Hospital alone produces 360,000kg of waste each year.
Needles, condoms and asbestos found at Wellington beach
Petone resident says discarded needles can be found on the beach daily.
Mood of the Boardroom: The road to improvement
Majority of leaders have given a vote of confidence to new Infrastructure Commission.
Fury as possum and pig carcasses dumped near Otago school
Concerned local finds disturbing pile of dumped carcasses near local school.
Tamihere wants waste-to-energy plant for Auckland's rubbish
Another mayoral candidate, Craig Lord, says Tamihere's team nicked the idea.
Clean and green? Think again. NZ's littering problem laid bare
Volunteers have picked up enough takeaway containers to fill 25 rugby fields a metre high.
Onehunga locals to get recycling centre
Auckland Council is planning to open 12 recycling centres by 2024.
Thousands of kids walk to school safely every day, principals say
Girl's death was "tragic" but heads say ban on kids walking to school is not the solution.
Waimangu doing its bit to be plastic free
Waimangu Volcanic Valley staff have been contributing to Plastic Free July.
Auckland Council adds a new rate for food scraps
Food scrap collections are on the way in Auckland.
Waste dumping: Goff wants answers from Sephora
Auckland mayor: "Totally untrue that council granted permission for such behaviour".
Sephora hits back after Auckland store opening waste claims
Claims of irresponsible waste dumping during its much-hyped store launch in Auckland.
From the MTG: Making moves to remove plastic
The MTG has been recycling for years and Laura Vodanovich is trying to do so at home, too.
Waste firm plan for landfill 'risk' to Kaipara Harbour
Kaipara mayor and iwi leaders protest against new dump just outside Northland border.
What a load of rubbish! 840kg collected off Parihaka in monthly cleanup
A total of 840kg of rubbish was collected off Parihaka in a monthly cleanup.
West Coast rubbish to end up at bottom of ocean canyon
The 4km-deep undersea canyon of West Coast is home to key marine ecosystems.
The money or the bag: Court uncovers black market for rubbish bags
The illicit underground trade was revealed in the Dunedin District Court yesterday
Zero-waste mission: Toothbrushes win, toothpaste fails
COMMENT: My bubble was burst. Eco-confidence? Shattered! But after a few small steps ...
Top thinker: Why NZ's economy has to go 'circular'
A circular economy could solve NZ's waste woes and free up billions, a top thinker says.
Small Business: Father-daughter duo win industry award
Father and daughter Jamie and Allen Bertelsen discuss running a business together.
Castor Bay resident disgusted by man burying rubbish on Auckland beach
The rubbish bag looked to contain party supplies including paper plates and serviettes.
Could this '70s throwback slim our waste-line?
There a growing calls to revive a 1970s throw-back: the bottle deposit scheme.
Stockpiling soft plastics before recycling scheme's return could cause backlog
When collection resumes, the soft plastics will no longer be sent to Melbourne.