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Online resource to combat litter and rubbish

A new online resource is helping to put people in touch with where and how they can get rid of their rubbish or do their recycling.

Source/ReadMore Newsie

How to Transform Plastic Recycling

Isabel Hilton explains that if we valued plastic differently we would recover its embedded energy and greatly reduce pollution both in the oceans and on land.

Source/ReadMore Waste Management World

‘Sweeteners’ offered in conservation land deal

The proposed hydro-electric project could reduce the flow of the Waitaha River to a trickle.

Westpower has offered to gift $250,000 to a struggling polytechnic if it receives approval to access the conservation land it wants to build a hydro-electric plant on reports Farah Hancock for Newsroom.

Industry ready to tackle New Zealand’s tyre problem

New Zealand’s tyre industry says it is ready to make mandatory stewardship for end of life tyres a reality, it just needs Government to get on board.

Source Tyrewise

City of London Trials UK’s First All-Electric Refuse Collection Vehicle

As part of an initiative to drive down air pollution in London’s Square Mile a trial of the UK’s first fully-electric waste collection truck has begun reports Ben Messenger for Waste Mangement world.

Source/ReadMore Waste Management World

Auckland Airport recognised as leader in carbon emissions reduction

Auckland Airport has been recognised as one of the leading organisations in New Zealand in its efforts to reduce carbon emissions.

Source Auckland Airport

Consultation opens on government's Zero Carbon Bill

Climate Change Minister James Shaw today launched a six-week consultation on the government's Zero Carbon bill, legislation that will include a new 2050 emissions reduction target

Source/ReadMore Sharechat

Recycling a sitter at Ellerslie Event Centre

Ellerslie Event Centre marked World Environment Day – themed 'Beat Plastic Pollution' – by seating its guests on chairs covered in 100% recycled fabric made from used plastic bottles.

Source MeetingNZ

UC scientists use haybales to protect whitebait spawning

An artificial habitat installation on a degraded section of riverbank in the Avon catchment in 2015.

University of Canterbury researchers have been successfully locating, protecting and studying whitebait spawning sites in Christchurch city rivers with help from the humble haybale.

Source Canterbury University

UNH researchers shine a light on more accurate way to estimate climate change

Artist rendering of OCO-2 Observatory used in the UNH research that measured the plant "glow ", or solar-induced fluorescence (SIF), produced during photosynthesis from different areas around the globe.

DURHAM, N.H. - It doesn't matter if it's a forest, a soybean field, or a prairie, all plants take up carbon dioxide during photosynthesis - the process where they use sunlight to convert water and carbon dioxide into food.

Source The MSCNewsWire Network

Two hundred businesses, communities and Kiwi leaders call for climate action

WWF-New Zealand and Generation Zero today delivered an open letter signed by over 200 New Zealand businesses, community organisations and leaders to climate minister James Shaw.

Source A WWF-New Zealand release

Irrigation NZ: Andrew Curtis taking the lead on water

Irrigation New Zealand has been involved in the development of Good Farming Practice: Action Plan for Water Quality which will be launched tomorrow. Sally Rae talks to Irrigation NZ chief executive Andrew Curtis about water — and his varied career.