National Geographic is launching a multiyear ‘Planet or Plastic?’ campaign to encourage consumers to reduce single-use plastics.

To keep waterways clean, deer farmers are fencing their deer out of streams and taking measures to keep valuable soil where it belongs – on the farm, growing grass.

Technology will soon help make New Zealand’s farms more productive while also making lakes and rivers cleaner, NZTech chief executive Graeme Muller says.

That's a huge increase from the Productivity Commission's estimate of between 2 to 5 percent. The carbon footprint of New Zealand's buildings currently takes into account operational emissions like heating and lighting.

But the author of the Thinkstep report, Jeff Vickers, said their approach only took into account what was produced, not what was consumed.

"If you factor in the whole life cycle so taking account of production of the building products, also the operational energy and end of life, you get to a number that's 20 percent of New Zealand's total.

"It changes the game on how significant the built environment really is," he said.

Break through effluent technology unveiled by  Ravensdown and Lincoln University in Canterbury technology that could significantly lift the dairy sector’s effluent and water efficiency.

In the year to November 2017, China purchased almost $26 million of waste and recyclables from New Zealand, according to data from Stats NZ. That was almost half of the $57.25 million that went overseas that year. In 2016 we sent $21m worth of waste to China, made up of $8.2m of plastic, $3.1m of …

Fonterra’s Brightwater dairy factory is set to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions by 25 per cent following an industry first move that will significantly reduce the site’s reliance on coal.

New Statistics New Zealand data shows carbon dioxide emissions reached its peak in 2006, with the country producing about 37,500 kilotonnes. In 2016, this reduced to about 34,400kt.

Biofume a New Zealand based company which specialises in technology relating to the control of fungus, bacteria and ethylene removal in produce storage facilities.

Hyundai-Kia America have announced an important development for the future of electric vehicles with the successful trial of a working wireless fast-charging system writes By David Kavermann  for Driven.