Environmental Impact

Environmental Impact

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Thailand’s Plastic Bag Ban

Another country bans single-use plastic bags On July 1st 2019, New Zealand took a step towards a zero-waste city by banning stores from selling or giving away single-use plastic bags. Now, another country is doing a similar thing this new year. Thailand has banned many major stores from selling single-use plastic bags from the 1st […]

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Auckland Rubbish Dump Christmas Operating Hours (December 2019)

Christmas is one of the happiness times of the year! People gather together with their friends and family and eat endlessly until their hearts are content. However, with all of the joy comes confusion about when businesses are operating. To help you out we have put together a list of dump sites across Auckland and

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How much rubbish goes into the ocean yearly?

New Zealand has some of the most beautiful beaches in the world and if you have ever lived here, you will most likely take at least one trip to the beach this holiday season. However, we don’t usually think about the huge amount of rubbish that ends up in our beloved ocean that affects not

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How much rubbish goes into the Auckland landfill annually?

  Since the new year is approaching, we thought it would be helpful to look back on 2019 regarding our landfill in Auckland. Not many people realize how much rubbish they throw away a day, let alone a in a year and although Auckland’s goal is to be a zero-waste city by 2040, its looking

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Compost Removal

With the onset of warmer weather, people are getting about in their gardens and heading to their favourite Garden Centres. So, it’s a timely reminder to take precautions when handling or disposing of Soil, Potting Mix or Compost. 13 people so far this year have been hospitalised with Legionnaire’s Disease. In the Garden city, 62 Cantabrians

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Pay-as-you-throw rubbish bins Auckland-wide

As part of standardising council rubbish collections across the new ‘Supercity’, the Auckland Council are replacing prepaid rubbish bags with ‘pay-as-you-throw’ bins. This means you buy tags to go on your bins, and only put them out when they’re full. West Auckland was the first to receive this service in 2017 and the tagged bins

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