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Burning rubbish creates toxic waste and fuels climate change
Burning rubbish to make electricity sounds too good to be true because there’s a big catch.
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Oil companies are ploughing money into fossil-fuelled plastics production at a record rate – new research
Visiting a modern petrochemical plant makes you feel incredibly small. Enormous compressors roar incessantly, distillation columns tower high above your head, large pipelines full of oil and gas criss-cross the…
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NZ’s government plans to switch to a circular economy to cut waste and emissions, but it’s going around in the wrong circles
The New Zealand government is currently developing plans to address two crises — climate change and waste — and to embrace a circular economy. But it has no clear path for how to do this. The resulting muddle is watering down the potential of a circular economy to bring lasting change.
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NZ Rugby takes another big hit over INEOS oil sponsorship deal
The tarnishing of New Zealand Rugby has been called out again after an open letter by prominent New Zealanders opposing the deal with INEOS was delivered to the organisation.
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Vote toroa for bird of the year!
This year, we’re throwing our support behind the toroa in Forest & Bird’s Bird Of the Year competition. They’re in serious trouble and in need of our love and attention. In my work as the plastics campaigner here at Greenpeace Aotearoa, I see some of what our toroa contend with.
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Microplastics are in the air we breathe and in Earth’s atmosphere, and they affect the climate
The magnitude of microplastics’ influence on climate varies in our climate model simulations, depending on assumptions we made about how the plastic fragments are distributed throughout Earth’s atmosphere.
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Experts come together to discuss a plastic free future
Kaitiakitanga, systemic change, people power and an overarching message of hope were the pillars of a Greenpeace Aotearoa webinar recently. Last week we hosted a webinar called Imagining a Plastic…
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Government’s Waste Strategy must focus on eliminating waste at the source
Greenpeace Aotearoa is calling on the Govt to “cut the crap”, and focus its Waste Strategy on eliminating the source of the plastic waste problem.
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Facing off against false solutions to the plastic pollution crisis
Years ago, I wondered why the plastic pollution problem seemed to grow exponentially at the same time as recycling became more and more mainstream, more widely accepted and adopted. In…
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The story behind an Italian single-use plastic bottle
I recently had the chance to visit the Adriatic coast as part of a ship tour Greenpace Italy organises every year with our partners at the Exodus Foundation, researchers at CNR-IAS and…