Government to regulate environmentally harmful plastic packaging, tyres, e-waste
by admin | August 4, 2020
Massey University’s Political Ecology Research Centre is delighted by the Government’s decision to declare plastic packaging, tyres, electrical and electronic products (e-waste), agrichemicals and their containers, refrigerants, and farm plastics “priority products”. The Ministry for the Environment invited Dr Trisia Farrelly to speak at the launch at Remarkit in Porirua yesterday on behalf of the New Zealand Product […]
CONTINUE READINGWhat Happens to NZ’s Plastic Exports? Stories from Receiving Countries
by admin | July 1, 2020
Following China’s National Sword Programme, most of Aotearoa New Zealand’s (NZ) post-consumer plastics now go to Indonesia and Malaysia.
CONTINUE READINGOcean Plastics Tour Signals Change for New Zealand
by admin | February 12, 2018
PRESS RELEASE THE PURE TOUR 12 February 2018. Our oceans need fixing, and Aotearoa is ready to play its part, says environmentalist and Indigenous rights advocate Tina Ngata. A national tour of speaking engagements with global ocean plastics experts Marcus Eriksen and Anna Cummins from the 5 Gyres Institute and Raquelle De Vine from Algalita […]
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