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Free compost courses around Auckland

In New Zealand, the average family throws away three shopping carts full of old food per year, meaning that over a third of the roadside bin collection is food waste and it’s all heading into our landfill. That adds up to about 157,389 tonnes of food waste a year which is a massive amount. There […]

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Christchurch council approves plan to save estuary from waste pollution

The 50-year-old Bexley rubbish dump that is located on the bank of a Christchurch estuary is in danger of bank erosion, which could result in old waste polluting the Avon-Heathcote Estuary. Hospital waste, household rubbish, construction waste and car parts were dumped in the Bexley tip during the 1950-1980s and around 180 tonnes of waste

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