Ten-year fight to protect old dumpsite from ocean19 Nov 24 - By Matthew Rosenberg, Local Democracy Reporter | A community advocate fears an old dumpsite next to a crumbling coastal road in Southland will be eaten away by the sea while she waits for council action. |
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How to prevent widespread harm of plastic pollution? New research20 Sep 24 - Tackling microplastic pollution, which could more than double by 2040, needs a strategy which takes on board economics and human behaviour as well as science, according to a review of 20 years of microplastics research. |
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Waste to energy plant proposed for Waimate15 Sep 21 - A joint venture between a New Zealand firm and Spanish and Chinese waste technology companies is investigating harvesting energy from South Island landfills. |
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Incinerator could go carbon-negative23 Mar 21 - A waste-to-energy plant in the Norwegian capital could become one of the world’s first carbon-negative incinerators, pending a decision from the European Commission to fund a carbon dioxide capture facility there. Environmentalists, for their part, are yet to be convinced. |
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TEN YEARS AGO...17 Mar 21 - Ten years ago, Crest Energy got approval to build the country’s first tidal power-station. The Kaipara Harbour project has never gone ahead. |
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INDUSTRY: cut emissions by improving rubbish collection26 Aug 20 - Cutting collection of household rubbish to fortnightly instead of weekly would reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the industry says. |
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Using microbes to clean up electronic waste20 Aug 20 - If you were to stack up all the electronic waste produced annually around the world it would weigh as much as all the commercial aircrafts ever produced, or 5000 Eiffel towers. |
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Ban looming for more plastic things12 Aug 20 - Plastic items including straws, plates and branding stickers on fruit are likely to go the way of single-use plastic bags and be banned. |
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Nation's first waste-to-gas plant proves a point6 Aug 20 - Construction of New Zealand’s first large-scale waste-to-biogas plant shows the country could eliminate greenhouse gas emission caused by food rotting in rubbish dumps, the Bioenergy Association says. |
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Mandatory product stewardship on the way30 Jul 20 - A shake-up of the waste management system means six industries will have to take responsibility for their products once consumers have finished with them. |
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How plastic pollution problem could look by 204028 Jul 20 - We’re bombarded by information on the topic of marine litter and plastic pollution, but how much do we really know about the problem? |
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