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At most big events in New Zealand, even if the bins are separated into rubbish and recycling, it all ends up going to landfill. Precycle NZ in Palmerston North is trying to change that. Audio

A start-up in Marlborough is busy repurposing damaged vineyard posts, that were used to hold up the canopy, into sustainable posts for farm fencing. Audio

Police specialist search teams have been scouring a landfill in Porirua today looking for items of interest in connection with the death of 79 year old Helen Gregory. The Khandallah woman was found… Video, Audio

Dame Whina Cooper's daughter is pleased thousands of photos of Māori life from the early 20th century have been brought back into New Zealand, but is unhappy they ended up overseas and nearly sent to… Audio

Time now for our local democracy reporting part of the programme. And this morning it's the turn of Brendon McMahon from Greymouth. Audio

A landfill in the Wellington suburb of Tawa has been fined for a foul stench described by local residents as "sulphurous" or like "sewage", and which has been tormenting them for years. The Porirua… Audio

It's not surprising then that children's clothes leave a big stain on our landfill. Jess Richards and her business partner Miranda Kersten want to combat this. Jess speaks to Jesse. Audio

Warnings for retailers as Chinese eCommerce giant Temu expands to target the New Zealand and Australian market. The new online marketplace launched here in March, after a staggeringly successful open… Audio

Some Waikato builders are still sending leftover construction material to landfill, despite the council's plan to minimise and recycle waste.

Currently, 50 percent of what goes to landfill comes from… Audio

Parents in New Plymouth can now recycle their children's car seats that have past their expiry for free, meaning they won't be going to landfill. Audio

As part of their mission to decrease the negative impacts of fashion on people and the environment, the New Zealand arm of the organisation will be running quarterly workshops called Stitch It… Audio

Wellington is set to get a new landfill on top of an old one.

The city council has approved plans to extend the Southern Landfill at a cost of $36 million.

The piggyback option will see a new… Audio

Are you guilty of fruit and vege prejudice? Bypassing the knobbly stunted carrot in favour of the better formed one?

The truth is most outsized produce does not make it to supermarket shelves, but… Video, Audio

A new scheme in Tauranga has, within 12 months, nearly halved the amount of waste going to landfill. Audio

Every year, around 6.5 million tyres reach the end of their lives in New Zealand and most get taken to landfills or illegally dumped. That's now set to change with the launch of New Zealand's first… Audio, Gallery

A case to try and stop a mega-landfill development in north Auckland will be heard today in the Environment Court.

The Dome Valley landfill has faced opposition from mana whenua and community groups… Audio

Tons of perfectly good produce from New Zealand farms, orchards and processing plants, once destined for landfill, is being saved and filling fridges, pantries and hungry children's tummies around the… Audio

Food waste advocates are welcoming plans to kick food scraps to the kerb and save them from landfill.

The government wants roll out kerbside collection of food waste for most urban households by… Audio

Food waste collection services could soon be coming to your neighbourhood. The government plans to roll out kerbside collection of food scraps for most urban households by 2030, as part of its… Audio

Thousands of kilograms of rubbish were washed out to sea in 2019, when an old landfill on the banks of the Fox River became exposed during flooding.

Now, three years later, the remaining rubbish has… Audio