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Auckland rubbish trucks: 149 incidents in 18 months
Auckland Council's waste solutions service collects approximately 165,000 bins every day.
Matua X-Man punches above the wasteline
Reducing waste one school at a time. Made with funding from NZ on Air.
Homes soiled with raw sewage following heavy rain
"Nobody should have to live with s*** all around their house."
Green or mean? What does 'biodegradable' plastic actually mean?
Simon Upton wants confusion around biodegradable and compostable plastics cleared up.
City runs out of rubbish stickers
Rubbish bag collection in Whanganui is back to normal, according to Waste Management.
Rubbish woes: Tags taken but bins left behind
Full bins with the tags taken were left for days on the side of the road, says resident.
Rhythm & Vines boosts Gisborne's economy by millions
The annual New Year festival injects millions into Gisborne's economy
Penny Hulse: Comments miss the mark on zero-waste goal
COMMENT: It is very important that the council is involved with waste collection.
Opinion: Council, stay out of waste industry
Competing with more efficient private operators to do it is folly.
Plastic stockpiles growing after China ban
Stockpiled plastic a 'scary' nationwide problem. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Rubbish collectors used compactor to break open safe with $30k inside
'Compacting cycle' broke open safe, revealing estimated $30,000 cash to contractors.
Unconsented worm farm to be gone by Friday
Martin Wilson wants council to start looking at its waste management plans.
Supermarket making money from waste
Whanganui's New World supermarket is being paid for the waste it gets rid of.
Why is Keep NZ Beautiful campaigning again?
The anti-litter group has just launched its first campaign since the 1990s.
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Finders keepers? The rubbish collectors, the safe and $30k
The case raises questions of who can lay claim to valuables with no obvious owner
Four in line to build $1.2bn wastewater tunnel
Four companies are in the running to build a $1.2 billion wastewater tunnel in Auckland.
Rogue operator dumps 1285 tyres into ravine
$25,000 bill to clean up rogue operator's tyre dump near Clevedon.
Talking trash: the Herald tracks an illegal dumper
Following a paper trail: tracing the culprits of unlawful tipping can be a messy business.
Aucklanders still swimming despite sewage
People in Auckland continued to swim at Milford Beach despite a health warning being put in place after raw sewage contaminated the water.
Mayor's war on rubbish: 'This has been p***ing me off'
Mayor takes aim at vehicle owners in war on roadside rubbish dumping.
Sea of bottles: Coromandel's mountain of recycling
Thames-Coromandel produces the most recycling over the festive period.
Turning food waste into millions
EcoStock deals with eight double-decker buses of food waste every day.
Household waste the lesser problem: report
Auckland Council's zero household waste to landfill policy questioned.
China move prompts call for greener packaging
NZ packaging industry exploring greener approaches to help cut our waste stream.
Fines could stomp out cigarette butt littering
Wellington councillors are divided over whether to slap fines on cigarette butt litterers.
Electric rubbish truck on its way
Waste Management launches the Southern Hemisphere's first electric rubbish truck.
Rubbish bags out and bins in for West Auckland
Auckland Council will roll out its new rubbish service in West Auckland on October 2
Local Focus: After the rubber hits the road, where does it go?
Where to put 5 million tyres a year. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Watch NZH Local Focus: Recycling decreasing across NZ
It's too cheap to dump rubbish, says new report. Made with Funding from NZ On Air
Campaign seeks to swamp MP with bottles
Thousands of bottles are to be posted to Associate Environment Minister Scott Simpson.
We can't recycle our way to 'zero waste'
COMMENT: We need the distinction between minimising and managing, writes Jenni Downes.
Food waste collection coming to Auckland
Food waste makes up almost half of what goes in Aucklanders' rubbish bins.