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How are we coping with the plastic bag ban?
There have been 130 complaints of businesses breaking the law, and supermarket customers now pay for their bin liners - how is the country coping with the plastic bag ban three weeks in? Audio
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Heavy duty bags: Plastic ban may be too thinly enforced
New Zealand's plastic bag ban may not cover many of the thicker "emergency-style" shopping bags stocked by supermarkets, despite the government's promise it would.
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Regional Fund's $40m backing for plastic recycling initiatives
Fighting the war on plastic rubbish has just become easier for reycling businesses.
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Plastic bag ban in force
Audio 1 Jul 2019The single use plastic ban comes into effect today. The ban will affect everyone from markets and retailers, supermarkets and department stores. Audio
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The Panel with Sharon Brettkelly and Michelle Boag (Part 1)
Audio 1 Jul 2019The single use plastic ban comes into effect today. The ban will affect everyone from markets and retailers, supermarkets and department stores. The panellists discuss the move and whether they're… Audio
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Rachel Brown: Plastic bags are just the beginning
The CEO of the Sustainable Business Network says now that single use plastic bags are banned, they are working on getting rid of unnecessary plastic packaging. Audio
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Midday News for 1 July 2019
Audio 1 Jul 2019Plastic-Free July kicks off with a ban on single-use bags and a government push to fund recycling projects. Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been stolen by phone scammers in recent months. Audio
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Plastic bag ban: 'Tens of millions of bags won't be going to landfill'
Banning single-use plastic bags doesn't go far enough but there's a strategy to toughen product stewardship rules and increase the landfill levy, the Associate Environment Minister says. Video, Audio
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Plastic bag ban: Tourists to feel the impact
The ban on plastic shopping bags begins on July 1.
The government says it is a step towards healthier oceans and giving nature a hand.
RNZ reporter Emma Hatton went to Lambton Quay to see how it was… Audio
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Single-use plastic bag ban only a start - Associate Environment Minister
The ban on single-use plastic shopping bags begins on July 1.
The government says it is a step towards healthier oceans and giving nature a hand.
But the National Party claims a legal loophole makes… Video, Audio
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Axe looms for plastic bags
Retailers caught flouting the ban of single use plastic bags, will be given the chance to mend their ways before being hit with a fine.
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Insight: Imprisoned by meth
In this award winning documentary, Insight's reporter Teresa Cowie heads inside prison to find out more about the impact of New Zealand's meth epidemic. Video, Audio
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Plastic bag ban: 'People know we have to change'
Single use plastic bags have a useful lifespan of just a few minutes to begin with, but from Monday they won't have one at all.
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Retailers face hefty fines as single-use plastic bag ban begins
Single use plastic bags didn't have much of a life-span to begin with, but from Monday they won't have one at all.
From July 1, it will become illegal for retailers to hand out light-weight plastic… Audio
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Soft plastic recycling returns to Auckland
If you drop off soft plastic it'll be turned into products like fence post and underground cable ducting.
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Customers 'hoodwinked' by Chinese mushrooms labelled NZ grown
Consumers are being warned some exotic mushrooms being sold as 'New Zealand grown' are actually being imported from China, a local grower says.
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ABC demands files' return in legal bid over police raid
Australian national broadcaster ABC has mounted a legal challenge against a police warrant served on it and is demanding the return of files seized during a raid earlier this month.
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Tuesday's business news: What you need to know
In today's business news - NZIER figures point to a larger economic slowdown, desktop computer orders are declining, and Emirates stops using plastic straws on its flights.
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Today's world news: What's making the headlines
In today's world news: N Korean leader's half brother's possible links to CIA, deadly violence in Mali, Canada sends plastic packing, helicopter crash in NYC, and where have all the plants gone.
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Cook Islands moves to ban single-use plastic
A Bill banning single use plastics is set to go before the Cook Islands Parliament before the end of the year.
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Canada to ban single-use plastics as early as 2021
Canada will ban "harmful" single-use plastics as early as 2021 in a bid to reduce ocean waste, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced.
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Police raid on ABC 'clearly designed to intimidate'
ABC chair Ita Buttrose has "grave concern" about this week's Australian Federal Police (AFP) raid at the national broadcaster.
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ABC raid 'chilling' for freedom of press
An Australian police raid on public broadcaster ABC risks having a chilling effect on freedom of the press, its editorial director says. Audio
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Initiative launched to plant 1 million trees in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's capital has launched an initiative to plant a million trees each year.
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Volunteers continue Fox River landfill cleanup
Volunteers have spent their first day picking plastic waste out of the Fox River bed since all funding for the landfill cleanup ended on Friday.