Rubbish
Rubbish piles up on West Coast beaches
Decades worth of rubbish is washing up on West Coast beaches following bad weather. Heavy rain eroded the Fox landfill, so waste from it is flowing into the Fox River. Audio
Charities spending thousands to dump unsellable donations
Rubbish, damaged clothing and broken items are just some of the 'donations' charity stores are spending thousands of dollars a year to dump. Visual Journalist Rebekah Parsons-King and reporter… Video, Audio
Plastic pollution in streams - a citizen science effort
NIWA freshwater scientist Amanda Valois is co-opting citizen scientists to work out where plastic rubbish in streams is coming from. Audio
Making green steel with old tyres
Veena Sahajwalla is the inventor of green steel and a Professor of Materials Science in the Faculty of Science at the University of New South Wales. She talks to Kathryn about revolutionising… Video, Audio, Gallery
Broken Rubbish Compactor
Campers in the Coromandel are being warned not to dump their rubbish on the side of the road, after garbage piled up next to a broken compactor this week. Audio
Wellington's south coast gets a spring clean
Community groups descend on Wellington's south coast each spring to pick up rubbish - including lots of plastic and cigarette butts. Audio
Stickergate - Do we need stickers on fruit?
They're small in isolation, but when added up stickers from fruit are leaving a massive environmental footprint. Zac Fleming meets a man who is on a crusade to change that. Video, Audio
Razor blades and old junk in rubbish dumped at beach
Whanganui man Karl Fulton was shocked to see an SUV drive along the beach and a man dump a load of rubbish right into the sea. It contained razor blades, old steel handrails and plastic bottles… Audio
Rodney rubbish collectors warn Auckland Council to stay out
Competition could be hotting up for Aucklanders household rubbish, as commercial collectors jockey for a bigger role in the council's waste management plans. The lobbying is fiercest in the largely… Audio
Fortnightly rubbish collection
Higher rates and fewer rubbish collections in Auckland have protestors up in arms. Audio
James Blackwood: Saying 'bags not' to plastic
Campaigns on single-use plastic bags often target retailers but the Bags Not initiative is looking to change shoppers’ behaviour, as James Blackwood explains. Audio
Sustainable Coastlines clean-up nets masses of rubbish
Environmental charity Sustainable Coastlines hit West Auckland beaches for four hours on Saturday. It was an event tied up with singer Jack Johnson's visit - his "All At Once" community is a social… Audio
Insight: Fighting the Waste Mountain
NZers are sending more waste to the dump. Teresa Cowie asks why and explores whether there are bigger,undetected issues Video, Audio
Call to increase dump levies
Current waste levies are too low, and significantly boosting them could help create thousands of jobs, a waste action group says.
Plastic rubbish collects on pristine uninhabited Pacific island
Pacific world heritage site revealed as having the highest density of plastic rubbish in the world. Audio
Another rubbish story
Wheelie bins, bags, recycling bins, garden waste bins. Matthew Luxon tells us how it's possible to have a zero-waste household. Audio
Junk Run: saving stuff from the landfill
Junk Run is an Auckland rubbish collection business where the end goal is to recycle and repurpose rubbish into treasure... and it seems to be working. Audio, Gallery
Young visionaries and the future of fashion
If you want to know what the future of fashion looks like it pays to keep an eye on emerging designers who create without boundaries. Sonia Sly meets emerging designers from around the world to find… Audio
Robotic rubbish rescue: cleaning our seas
One way to keep birds and other animals safe from plastic rubbish is to collect it before they have a chance to eat it. The Waste Shark is a car-sized robotic catamaran that collects rubbish in a net… Audio