Twenty-three cities, including Sydney and Auckland, are taking a closer step towards zero waste with their latest declaration to cut waste sent to landfill and incineration by 50 per cent, which will avoid disposal of at least 87 million tonnes of waste...
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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced that the country will be phasing out single-use plastic bags over the next 12 months in a bid to "safeguard New Zealand's clean, green reputation".
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Countdown will be supporting the Sustainable Business Network's Circular Economy Accelerator (CEA) in its work to complete a diagnostic study in New Zealand's entire plastic packaging system, which aims to identify key challenges and interventions for...
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The Vinyl Council of Australia aims to expand its successful PVC Recycling in Hospitals program to cover 150 hospitals by the end of 2018.
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Humble Bee, a biotech start-up founded in New Zealand, is on the way to reducing the use of plastic in a major way through the reverse-engineering of the nesting material of the Australian masked bee in a bid to manufacture a biodegradable alternative...
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Stadler Anlagenbau GmbH and CEMAC Technologies have partnered to service the Australian and New Zealand markets.
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Almost everything we own and buy contains plastics. Look around. If it's not the chair you're sitting on, or that part of a pen in your drawer, that bottle in your refrigerator, it may be this thing you're holding - your smartphone, or a keyboard, or...
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New Zealand is planning to invest more in recycling plants and set up a government-led taskforce to work out how to grapple with the fallout from China's ban on waste imports.
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Moving away from the traditional take-make-waste model to a more sustainable one could bring more than $8 billion to Auckland's economy, according to a new report.
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In response to the New Zealand government's policy of achieving zero emissions by 2050 the Bioenergy Association has come out and said that if we are to achieve zero emissions by 2050, then reducing greenhouse gas emissions from food processing sector...
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