Waste
Fridge sharing is caring
A new campaign is tackling the problem of getting wasted food to those who need it, with a community fridge in central Auckland. Audio
The Importance of Well Made Clothes
Courtney Sanders is a Melbourne-based Kiwi and co-founder of Well Made Clothes. She talks to Sonia Sly about setting up an online ethical clothing business and a movement towards slow fashion. Audio
Juliet Arnott: waste and re-use
Kim Hill talks to occupational therapist Juliet Arnott, who is the founder and director of Christchurch reuse business Rekindle. She is currently driving the Design for Reuse - Resource: Rise Again… Audio
Innovative recycling initiatives
Kathryn Ryan talks to Hawkes Bay recycling company 3R about some innovative ways to get rid of household waste. Audio
Turning waste into power
Matt Silver is the chief executive of Cambrian Innovation, a wastewater processing company that's using electrically active bacteria which eat waste and produce electricity as a by-product. Under… Audio
Waste Crime
Waste crime in the European Union is big business, illegal dumping is estimated to be worth at least 900 million dollars a year. Kathryn Ryan speaks to Jim Baird, a professor of waste and resource… Audio
Love Food Hate Waste campaign launches
The average Kiwi family wastes more than three shopping trollies of food a year. Jenny Marshall the national co-ordinator of the Love Food Hate Waste campaign wants to put a stop to it with the launch… Audio, Gallery
French legislate against food waste.
George Langlands of food rescue organisation Kaibosh talks about whether NZ needs to follow France in making laws against food waste. Audio
Why are waste tyres not regulated?
Every year in New Zealand about three million used tyres are put into landfills, dumped or stored in ways that can be dangerous for the environment, with the risk of them catching fire or leaching… Video, Audio, Gallery
Space Between
Space Between is a sustainable zero waste fashion design project run through Massey University. Sonia Sly meets the designers and team behind the project to look at why they're reconstructing… Audio
Call to move from landfill to incineration
A new book on New Zealand's waste says rubbish has doubled in the past 50 years - and the rate is unsustainable. Audio
What a waste!
Every year 2.5 million tonnes of waste goes into landfills, and individually we generate, on average, 400 kilograms per year. Our output is double what it was 50 years ago, and quadruple, a generation… Audio
Passion no guarantee of creativity
Discussing the relationship between science and creativity are Julie Maxton, Executive Director of the United Kingdom's Royal Society and Professor Bruce Sheridan, a New Zealand academic at Chicago's… Audio
Starting a Food Revolution!
New Zealand Society meets a Waikato food rescue service that has saved 10 tonnes of food from going to the landfill, in only six months. Audio
Erin Smith : Growable Gown
Erin Smith is an artist and researcher whose work focuses on the issue of waste and the future of fabrication. She makes wedding dresses that are grown, not made, and then easily composted when… Audio
The Freedom of Trash-Free
The challenges and joys of living both a trash and waste-free lifestyle in New York City - with blogger and entrepreneur Lauren Singer from The Simply Company. Audio
What food wastage tells us with Dr David Boarder Giles
Anthropologist Dr David Boarder Giles has been investigating our cultural relationship to food consumption and wastage and he says the trash talks. What what we throw out tells us about our cultural… Audio
From Wine Waste to Wound Dressing
A microbiologist, a food scientist and a pharmacist are collaborating to create anti-microbial nano-fibre wound dressings using polyphenols from wine waste Audio
From Wine Waste to Wound Dressing
A microbiologist, a food scientist and a pharmacist are collaborating to create anti-microbial nano-fibre wound dressings using polyphenols from wine waste
AudioJunkyard planet
In his book 'Junkyard Planet' Adam Minter looks into the massive global business of rubbish and recycling. We also do the rounds with scrap metal collector Aidan Bognuda of Ingot Metals. Audio
