The pipes under our cities towns and homes deliver not just drinking water they also take away our waste reports Laura Dooney, Local Government Reporter RadioNZ.

Coinciding with plastic free July, 48 Massey University industrial design students have worked with a local plastics recycling company to design and repurpose products for new-look public facilities.

DS Smith has pledged to manufacture 100% reusable or recyclable packaging by 2025, and to use 100% recycled or chain of custody certified papers by 2020.

For the Reaman Industries tank installation team last Friday morning was just a normal start to the day ice, snow you name it, it arrived and it got worse! Come the afternoon sleet and hail was added to the mix. 

Councils are screaming for financial help from central Government. The problem is, David Williams reports for Newsroom, they might get it sooner than they think.

Two groups charged by the last government with finding a solution to the freshwater management problem have been put on pause as the Labour-led coalition forges its own way ahead. Sam Sachdeva from Newsroom spoke to the groups’ chairs about their work, and the challenges in finding a way to resolve freshwater issues.

New Zealand has a problem with plastic. There's too much of it. It's filling up our landfills, our oceans, there are piles of the stuff at recycling plants waiting for a buyer report Newshub.

Dedicated volunteers, community groups, schools & businesses get together, or sew from home, to make re-usable ‘Boomerang Bags’ using recycled materials as a means to replace plastic bags.

A University of Canterbury student is developing 3D-printed water filters with potential to improve water quality in developing countries.

Ethical uniform company Little Yellow Bird, which hatched in the start-up incubator of the University of Canterbury’s Centre for Entrepreneurship, is flying home, fully fledged.