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Rebooting Recycling in Aotearoa
The discussion document Rebooting Recycling - What can Aotearoa do? has been released by WasteMINZ. Eunomia worked with WasteMINZ and the recycling industry to develop the document. Overview: The collapse in international recycling markets has left the recycling...
Dr Dominic Hogg on China Recycling Crisis
Eunomia Chairman Dr Dominic Hogg was interviewed on BBC World about China's move to restrict imports of recycling. The restrictions are a wake up call for the recycling industry. While they will cause some short term pain, they also could provide an incentive to move...
Waste Planning – The Future
In this article from Revolve magazine Duncan Wilson looks at the past and future of waste planning in New Zealand. The way we manage waste has evolved significantly over the last 30 years. Unfortunately not a lot of credit for that can go to our waste planning. If we...
A Few Links We Like
New Zealand Recycling symbols and colours – improve your communications!
Zero waste events – free resources to help plan a zero waste event
Package Free stores – sounds like we could use a few in NZild..
Steady state economics – might be something to it…
Traffic congestion cars vs trams…
The Green Police! Where do we enlist…?
The roles of the public private and community sectors Duncan Wilson Blogs
World wastes up to 50% of the food produced – New study by Institution of Mechanical Engineers
US throws away 40% of food produced shows study
Artic sea ice disappering 50% faster than predicted
Rising population and higher food prices are a recipe for hunger. But Kiwis are taking a leading role in heading off a global food crisis.
The majority of UK local authorities opt for kerbside sort when the choice of collection system is left to open competition, according to a new report from consultancy 4R Environmental
Researchers focus on food waste
Allan Savory: TED talk on how to fight desertification and reverse climate change Brilliant.
Electric Telsa coming to NZ. The coolest car on the planet..?
Eight in race for Worst-packaging title
Check out the Eco-Cartoons website by our very own Duncan Wilson
Eco Santa
By our very own Duncan Wilson
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