Wellington councillors are divided over whether to slap fines on cigarette butt litterers.

Waste Management launches the Southern Hemisphere's first electric rubbish truck.

Auckland Council will roll out its new rubbish service in West Auckland on October 2

Where to put 5 million tyres a year. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

It's too cheap to dump rubbish, says new report. Made with Funding from NZ On Air

Thousands of bottles are to be posted to Associate Environment Minister Scott Simpson.

COMMENT: We need the distinction between minimising and managing, writes Jenni Downes.

Food waste makes up almost half of what goes in Aucklanders' rubbish bins.

Journalist's adventure to film the blue whale turns into an environmental horror story.

Wheelie bins and an extra recycling bin for food scraps isn't good news for everyone in Hamilton. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

The Overseas Investment Office has given consent for a US$234 million deal involving Waste Management

Employers are being challenged to take on 500 unemployed young people in the next 50 days to give young New Zealanders a break into their first jobs.

Waste Management will trial electric trucks as the EV revolution moves to heavier vehicles.

Last weekend I was lucky enough to go to the excellent WOMAD festival in Taranaki, writes Sam Judd. The home of oil and gas and a stronghold for dairy farming - this region is not usually recognised as a pinnacle of environmental performance.

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

Thanks to one tidy Kiwi's handy detective work, someone is about to receive the surprise of their life in the mail.

A video circulating on social media showing sewage flowing from a treatment plant into a stream is a distortion of the facts, says Horowhenua District Council.

Campaigners say visitors arriving at Auckland Airport could be greeted by the stench of rotting food waste once a composting plant begins operating nearby.

We owe it to our kids to look after this great country and not let them inherit a bunch of overflowing, privately-owned landfills, writes Sam Judd.

A natural re-usable food wrap, a brainchild of three Auckland mums, is one of the creative ideas to be presented at next Sunday's Auckland Fair.

More than 25,000kg of plastic waste is littered in NZ each day — and each of us mismanages seven grams of it daily.

Beijing Capital Group has said it will invest $98 million in its new acquisition, Waste Management.

The country's second-biggest supermarket chain has cut rubbish by thousands of tonnes after introducing an anti-waste strategy seven years ago.

Dumped rubbish is threatening the Hauraki Gulf but "people power" is helping to clean up the mess.

Many large players pitched for the Kiwi waste business, but Beijing Capital rolled in with a $950 million cheque, and the deal was done, writes Dita De Boni.