An Australian start-up claims to have cracked the code to infinite recycling after it developed a solvent that allows contaminated plastic to be used repeatedly. This move could potentially boost its revenue by $100m a year. Paco Industries’ discovery has overcome one of the biggest barriers to the repeated recycling of polyethylene terephthalate plastic (PET), Read more
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Sydney start-up has developed a process to infinitely recycle PET plastics
Thursday, March 14th, 2024Auckland 9-year-old on a mission to get compost bins in every school
Monday, May 9th, 2022Nine-year-old Nico Tauri is on a mission to have every school in New Zealand install compost bins. It comes after he successfully convinced consumer goods giant Unilever to take plastic scoops out of its Surf washing powder. Unilever said the move, due to start in June 2022, would reduce the amount of plastic in circulation Read more
‘Making a difference’ – How recycled chip packets are helping Auckland’s vulnerable
Monday, March 14th, 2022An Auckland-based organisation is helping the city’s most vulnerable people in the most unlikely of ways – with empty potato chip packets. The Chip Packet Project (CPPNZ) was founded in September 2021 during lockdown, and was a spin-off of the UK-based organisation, Crisp Packet Project. The organisation collects freshly-washed chip packets, or any foil-wrapped food Read more
Family of seven put kerbside rubbish bin out just five times a year
Monday, June 28th, 2021
We might think that being greener at home means being more mindful. But Bindi Chouhan and her family of seven, who generate less than five rubbish bins worth of waste per year, say that most sustainable things they do on a daily basis are mindless. The fourth-generation Indian-Zimbabwean grew up in a micro village of Read more
$3m grant for NZ’s first 100% recycled plastic food packaging
Monday, July 15th, 2019The government is investing $3 million in the creation of New Zealand’s first 100 percent recycled plastic food packaging range. Ms Sage said recycling plastics for food containers was part of an effective response to China’s National Sword policy that restricted the amount of waste imports it accepted. Read more
Our plastic pollution crisis is too big for recycling to fix
Thursday, June 14th, 2018
Every minute, every single day, the equivalent of a truckload of plastic enters our oceans. In the name of profit and convenience, corporations are literally choking our planet with a substance that does not just “go away” when we toss it into a bin. Since the 1950s, some 8.3bn tons of plastic have been produced Read more
Cassocks made from recycled from bottles
Thursday, June 7th, 2018The Church of England has joined the war on plastic as vicars buy cassocks made from recycled bottles. A clerical clothing manufacturer has launched the first-ever plastic cassock in a bid to make priestly clothing more eco-friendly. Read more
Sister Anna changing people’s attitude to the environment
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2015
Sister Anna Wiwiek Soepraptiwi, a Daughter of Charity who lives in Nausori, has educated many women on how to prevent harming the environment by recycling rubbish and then selling the product. “It is a lot of detailed work, but with perseverance and patience, anyone can create a nice artwork from the recycled plastics,” Anna says. Read more