2012-01-25 13:56:26 // Siobhan Leathley
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US residents looking to ditch a phone or music player need only place an unwanted device into an ecoATM, which then values the item and offers a cash payment or donation to a charity of choice.
2012-01-20 09:58:50 // Siobhan Leathley
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We Kiwis aren’t the clean, green, recycling machines we think we are: 77 percent of plastics go unrecycled each year, resulting in 252,000 tonnes of plastic waste in our landfills. And SodaStream has decided to tackle this head-on with a bit of a PR stunt aimed at giving us a wake-up call about what all that rubbish looks like.
2011-12-13 16:35:57 // Kate Beecroft
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A Putaruru trial has found the key to composting success: separating food waste from green waste.
2011-11-30 09:45:06 // Sustain Team
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Auckland's trial oil recovery scheme bodes well for the future, with more than 120,000 litres of used engine oil recycled in the first six months.
2011-11-23 15:03:24 // Idealog
The government’s waste minimisation fund has announced its biggest-ever grant – $2.5 million – toward recycling demolition and liquefaction waste from the Canterbury quakes.
2011-09-20 10:30:00 // Sustain Team
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Three waste-reducing initiatives are set to get a bolster following a grants announcement by environment minister Nick Smith, totalling more than $400,000.
2011-07-14 17:38:19 // Vanessa Ellingham
New Zealand may be facing an e-waste crisis, with the imminent switch to digital TV posing a serious threat, according to a new study.
2011-07-12 13:40:52 // Sustain Team
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Everyone likes a good beer, but would you love it more if it showed signs of environmental stewardship? Love NZ, a government-led initiative, facilitated by the Glass Packaging Forum, was launched in May as a means of providing permanent and temporary recycling bins and bottle banks for public places across 26 regions in New Zealand. And now Speight’s has come on board, becoming the first brand in the country to display the Love NZ “recycle with care” logo on its packaging.
2011-01-13 11:12:26 // Design Daily Team
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Ever think no good could come out of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill? Well, some could, perhaps. Rather than spending hundreds of years in a landfill slowly breaking down, General Motors has found a creative way to utilise 160 kms of boom used to contain oil from the spill, recycling them into its car designs. Watch how it works below.
2010-12-14 14:16:50 // Deirdre Robert
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When public art programme ‘Letting Space’ commissioned Kim Paton to create an art project in an empty retail space—themed around artists exploring the commercial environment—she struck upon a free supermarket idea, bringing together community groups, artists, schools, the council and local businesses to help effect change.
2010-10-15 15:51:10 // Design Daily Team
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If you don’t like to drink Coke, perhaps you’d like to sit on it instead—well, sit on the bottle at least. Never slowing down in its bid to brand the world, the Coca Cola Company has inched its way into the furniture market, playing the good corporate citizen with these recycled chairs
2010-10-12 17:35:48 // Design Daily Team
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Adding to the list of big name corporations applying a green lick of paint to their business ethos, Starbucks have taken a turn on the sustainability road and on the way they’ve found their WoJo, and it’s all thanks to Kiwi design company The Formary. WoJo is a new fabric made from sustainable New Zealand wool that is woven with jute fibers from Starbucks recycled coffee sacks.
2010-08-06 13:00:14 // Design Daily Team
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A quick scan at the latest building by Slovakian artist Matej Kren will leave you in print-inspired awe. His latest installation, called Scanner, is his largest book installation yet and is currently on display at the Museum of Modern Art in Bologna.
