Waste

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

George Langlands of food rescue organisation Kaibosh talks about whether NZ needs to follow France in making laws against food waste. Audio

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 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

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

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

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 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 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

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

A microbiologist, a food scientist and a pharmacist are collaborating to create anti-microbial nano-fibre wound dressings using polyphenols from wine waste Audio

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

Ideas this week explores food production, food waste and inevitably hunger. Audio

The competition regulator is warning that the plastics industry needs to get its house in order when it comes to potentially misleading comments about recycling products like bottles and bags. Audio

When it comes to recycling is New Zealand ahead of the pack? Audio

Australian economist and executive director of The Australia Institute, who has just released new research about the value of things we buy and throw away without ever using. Audio

Insight investigates how we deal with our rubbish as we strive to make cities more sustainable. Audio