Recycling, packaging and waste
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Green Ideas waste directory
Your guide to dealing with tricky trash at home and in the office.
Black gold in our landfills
Plastic is just solid oil – that’s the striking message from Akinori Ito of Blest Corporation, Japan, which has invented a desktop machine that turns plastic rubbish into useful fuel.
The phone you keep forever
Ever thought how wasteful it is the way people change cell phones all the time, while simultaneously drooling over the latest amazing mobile?
Recycling food waste into pig food instead of sending it to landfill
Reader submittedJust read this on the NZ Herald website – awesome! These guys take surplus food stock away that can’t be sold because it’s past expiry, damaged etc and use it to make nutritionally balanced stock feed ...
Plastic-free July: Giving up Glad Wrap!
Reader submittedIn the Santé household we quit using Glad Wrap (cling film) a few months ago. We got to the end of our last roll and as we are trying to reduce the amount of waste ...
Fine for greenwashing
A $30,000 fine has been slapped on Pacrite Industries Ltd in the Auckland District Court for making untrue green claims about their ‘Greensac’ and ‘The Green One’ rubbish bags.
Vote to clean up bad packaging
Sick of disposable packaging clogging up your rubbish bin?
Group shows its bottle
A return to the days when children could make pocket money by collecting and recycling bottles is being cited as a realistic way of reducing plastic pollution.
Plastic fantastic
A group of young New Zealanders have kayaked 100km down the Whanganui River on boats made from plastic bottles to raise awareness of the impact plastic has on the environment.
How to kill your landfill (and create jobs doing it)
Faced with a landfill bursting at the seams the Raglan community set itself an ambitious goal – produce zero waste. Sam Judd meets inspiring waste warrior Rick Thorpe.