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Beach clean-up volunteer Des Watson tells Lynn Freeman he believes rubbish that exploded from the landfill near Fox Glacier last March is washing up 200 kms north at Westport. Des has spent the week… Audio

A campaign to stop Christchurch households from using their recycling bins to dump their smelly non-recyclable waste, is so far failing to change peoples' behaviour.

On Monday close to half of all… Audio

Opponents of a controversial Dome Valley Landfill proposal in Auckland are urging the council to give them another month to send in submissions.

The Auckland Council only notified a resource consent… Audio

Up to five million dollars of chilled meat is headed to landfill if independent butchers are not allowed to reopen within the next five days.

Group principal at the Aussie Butcher, Keith Oddy, says… Audio

Rubbish from an old landfill in Gore has been exposed by the floodwaters.

The banks of the Waikaka Stream, which runs past a popular park and playground in Gore, have been washed away, following… Video, Audio

WasteMINZ has released their research on plastic recycling around the country with some startling results. They found that every year 97 million recyclable plastic containers are going to landfill… Audio

Last year Digital Wings diverted 187.3 tonnes of e-waste destined for landfill back into the community as working computers.  Audio

Inspired to to something to help refugees on the Greek Island of Samos, The Tentcollectors are gathering up left-behind tents, sleeping bags and mats left behind and sending them off to Samos. Audio

A new national landfill levy scheme could increase six fold in just a few years, with some experts saying it should be even higher. The government is proposing to increase the current levy from 10… Audio

The government is proposing boosts to the cost of dumping waste, in an effort to reduce the amount of rubbish going in landfills.

Under a proposal announced on Wednesday morning, the landfill levy… Video, Audio

Work is well underway on a large rockwall aimed at protecting a dump above Fox Glacier township. The same dump released tonnes of rubbish during a storm earlier this year, sparking a clean up effort… Audio

There are concerns a former landfill only metres from Ocean Beach in Dunedin is a environmental time bomb.

The Dunedin City Council will go to the public in coming months to gauge what they want to… Audio

Fionna Gotts runs sustainable waste management company Junk Run which specialises in innovative, environmentally-friendly and responsible junk and rubbish removal and repurposing in Auckland. Awarded… Audio

The Defence Force is sending two heavy trucks and deploying up to 70 more people on the West Coast to help remove garbage from a spilt landfill.

Heavy rain washed out a West Coast landfill near Fox… Audio

The Conservation Minister has slammed the Westland District Council for not having the cash to sort out the litter-ridden Fox River and warns the Department of Conservation shouldn't be relied on to… Audio

The Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage says local councils shouldn't expect her department will come to their rescue if they run into problems with old landfills.

She says while DOC is now running… Audio

The Department of Conservation has now taken the reins from Westland District Council as the lead agency co-ordinating the clean-up of the Fox and Cook riverbeds polluted by the wash out of an old… Audio

Every year 50,000 tonnes of food is chucked out by cafes, restaurant, and supermarkets. Most of this food is still good to eat. A new app, Foodprint, has been created to rescue that food and save… Audio

The next time you're walking along Queen Street in downtown Auckland, cast your eyes to the Town Hall. There's an extraordinary gift of love adorning one of the city's historic buildings - and… Audio

The clean-up continues on the West Coast after a flooded Fox River uncovered an old landfill, washing rubbish downstream and on to kilometres of coastline. While much of the rubbish has been cleaned… Audio

A small community in the very north of Auckland is preparing for battle against an international company that wants to build a huge rubbish tip. Waste Management is 80 percent owned by the Chinese… Audio