Recycling
'Refreshed' in Levin, an update on the kick starter campaign
Back in 2019 Jesse spoke to the founder of a small social enterprise that creates and sells bags made from waste products in Levin. He caught up with founder David Brewerton. Audio
Plumb crazy about crayfish
Strange fishy sculptures made out of recycled stuff are popping up on the shoreline at Riversdale. They're the work of country plumber Jeff Burnett, who can't keep his hands off junk. Audio
Four-year-old Frankie - Petone's champion recycler
Four-year-old Frankie could teach a lot of grown-ups something about recycling.
This Petone preschooler is totally sorted when it comes to knowing which bit of waste goes in which bin.
Reporter Ruth… Video, Audio
Glass industry opposes a beverage container return scheme
Organisations supporting a beverage container return scheme say opposition from the glass industry could derail the project at the eleventh hour. A container return scheme incentivises people to… Audio
Rubbish recycling behaviour
Residents in Ōtautahi are having their recycling bin privileges revoked if they don't follow the rules about what rubbish should be put in them, which contaminates the recycling plant. Gina Dempster… Audio
Living on liquid: the floating house called Freedom Cove
Thirty years ago Catherine King and Wayne Adams started a project to build their dream home - a floating complex off the coast of western Canada which they have dubbed Freedom Cove. What they created… Audio
Call for clothing industry to have product stewardship scheme
The clothing and textiles industry is among the world's worst carbon-emitters - now the government is being urged to consider bringing textile recycling within its product stewardship scheme… Audio
Waste not want not: how to cook with not-so-fresh food
We're all guilty of throwing out stuff in the fridge that's gone to waste - but when you add it up, Kiwis are chucking out over 157-thousand tonnes of food a year. Sarah Burtscher describes herself as… Audio
Francesca Goodman-Smith: tackling supermarket food waste
26 year old Francesca Goodman-Smith is on a mission to tackle New Zealand's food waste problem. Working for Foodstuffs, one of the country's biggest supermarket chains, she's designed an award-winning… Audio
'Hidden story' of industrial-sized plastic bladders going to landfills
Huge plastic bladders, each weighing as much as 20,000 plastic bags, are being dumped in landfills with no controls and no record-keeping.
Kiwis turning E-waste to gold, but not in New Zealand
The New Zealand based start-up Mint Innovation, is on track to open its first commercial refineries for extracting precious metals from e-waste in Britain and Australia later this year, which will… Video, Audio, Gallery
Medsalv - recycling medical devices bound for landfill
As the government looks to make producers of certain products responsible for the waste they generate, a Christchurch company is stepping in to save medical devices from landfill. Audio
Manufacturers responsible for disposing of their waste
A change in New Zealand's waste management legislation means manufacturers of plastic packaging, tyres, electronic waste, agri-chemicals and refrigerants will have to recycle or dispose of their… Audio
Government moves to regulate harmful waste
Producers of plastic packaging, e-waste, paint, tyres, farm plastics, refrigerants and agrichemicals will soon be required to to take environmental responsibility for their products at the end of… Audio
Making waste bread into beer and artisan bread
Recycling food waste is a big challenge, but a group called Citizen collective has found an innovative way to do it. Audio
Is recycling always better than starting from scratch?
Sustainability business Thinkstep ANZ says we all need to know more about the recycling process. Audio
Standardising rubbish and recycling collection
Christchurch households are having trouble going back to recycling again after lockdown, when they were able to put rubbish into recycling bins, costing hundreds of thousands in dumping fees. Audio
Bernadette Casey: Changing the way we think about clothes
The Formary is a Wellington research and development company looking at a long-term solution to waste created by fast fashion. Its co-founder is Bernadette Casey. Video, Audio
Bags of Rags to Recycled Riches
Danny Mulholland is the founder of Bags of Rags - a family run business, locally recycling and processing material that was going to landfill and repurposing it as rags for various applications. Audio
Calls for recycling plant in Covid-19 investment to plug huge gap
A just revealed $1.5 billion dollar shortfall in waste infrastructure, cheap oil prices, and stresses caused by Covid-19 are being blamed for an increase in our waste going to the landfill. The black… Audio