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Bringing back Repair Skills | GUEST POST
A huge amount of things these days could be repaired, that just aren’t. Meanwhile, many companies are designing products to become obsolete, a wasteful way of increasing their businesses profitability.
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Ways you’re making a difference
Supporters like you are making incredible things happen. In this issue of Kākāriki, you will read about more of the incredible campaign work you have made possible
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Bribery, fraud and large-scale greenwashing: WHY PLASTIC? exposes the grim reality of plastic ‘recycling’
Why plastic? THE WHY Foundation decided to take a closer look at a material that is notoriously durable, affordable and multi-functional – yet harmful for our planet, health and climate.
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Turtle Journey shows us why we urgently need to protect the oceans
Climate breakdown, plastic, oil drilling and overfishing have driven our oceans to a breaking point, but it’s a story that doesn’t get told often enough.
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Join the movement to support the Reuse Revolution!
We can’t landfill or recycle our way out of the waste and climate crises. One of the big system shifts we need is to move from throwaway mode towards choosing reuse instead.
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Comprehensive container return scheme needed to address plastic waste crisis
Greenpeace Aotearoa is welcoming the Government’s announcement of an overhaul of recycling systems to address New Zealand’s astronomical plastic waste issue. On Sunday, the Government announced new proposals aimed to…
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A win for people power as global plastics treaty mandate adopted at UN
Greenpeace Aotearoa is celebrating a “monumental win for people and the environment” today after the United Nations Environment Assembly adopted a mandate to open negotiations for a legally binding global…
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Govt urged to support a strong global Plastics Treaty at UN meeting this week
The United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) is discussing the possibility of a global, legally-binding treaty on plastic that covers its entire life cycle including extraction, production, transport, use, disposal and…
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Global Plastics Treaty: An Indigenous perspective on the plastic pollution crisis
Iwi Māori have a long whakapapa of resistance to the things that cause us harm, and this problem might seem like just another kaupapa amongst many injustices. But plastic pollution traverses national and generational boundaries, affecting every person and every ecosystem.
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Global Plastics Treaty Now
Plastic pollution is fast spiralling out of control and if left unchecked it might be too little too late by the time the world finally decides to do something about…
