Recycling, packaging and waste
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Recycling is easy!
Reader submitted'Everyone, regardless of age and upbringing, can become a recycling advocate. By making the right choices and adapting our lifestyles, we can all help make NZ waste-free and sustainable.' Make sure you check out the Recycle ...
How do we get more people recycling in their workplace?
Reader submittedMany of my work colleagues do it at home, but "can't be bothered" when its comes to work - so frustrating! I feel like getting the bottles from their desk bins and recycling them all ...
San Francisco: Goal for zero waste by 2020
Wow. If you've read the first issue of Green Ideas, chances are you've been inspired by Raglan's wonderful zero waste goal and how the whole community (around 4000 people) have gotten behind it. San Francisco has over 800,000 people. ...
Metal and other hard-to-get-rid-of waste
Reader submittedI had an email recently about a metal collection service – here's the details – awesome service as this stuff is generally very hard to get rid of!! And it sounds like it is for a great ...
The amount of food we waste
Reader submittedThis says it all really.
Auckland recycling collection
Reader submittedHow is the material that we throw into the big blue 'recycling' bins in Auckland processed? It seems to me that someone, somewhere has a MASSIVE job to sort everything that's in these bins into the individual ...
How to recycle your analogue TV
New Zealand television is going digital – but where do all those old analogue TVs go? Not into landfill we hope – they contain toxic materials like lead, mercury and cadmium which can leach into ...