The Bulletin: Recycling rejected by Indonesia coming straight back

Good morning, and welcome to The Bulletin. In today’s edition: Indonesia to send contaminated recycling back to NZ, LAWA report shows water quality dropping at more sites than not, and Spark Sport suffers harsh weekend. Shipping containers full of contaminated recycling could be shipped back to New Zealand, Anna Whyte from One News reported near the end of … Read more

Bulletin readers respond: 12 ways New Zealand could deal better with waste

A call for feedback in our daily email newsletter The Bulletin on how New Zealand could reduce the amount of waste being produced – and ending up in landfills – prompted a massive response. Here are some of your ideas.  In some ways, this call for feedback was the crisis New Zealand is facing with … Read more

The Bulletin: New Zealand is drowning in trash

Good morning, and welcome to The Bulletin. In today’s edition: Spate of stories show rubbish problem is increasing, Don Brash Waitangi invite sparks boycott call, and bees struggling to get enough to eat.   We’re not the tidy Kiwis we like to think we are. A range of recent stories show problems in waste management are mounting in … Read more