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Food waste and regenerative farming: from rubbish to resource
With lockdown keeping hospitality businesses closed, New Zealanders are cooking and eating at home much more than usual. While in many ways that’s a good thing, unfortunately it also means…
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Clean water for Otago: Greenpeace submission to the Otago Regional Council
Everyone deserves rivers they can swim in and fresh, clean drinking water that won’t make them sick. But to get there we need local and central government making strong plans…
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How food waste can help bring about a healthy farming future
A new report by Greenpeace and The Rubbish Trip details how food and organic waste can be converted to high-quality compost to fuel a shift to regenerative farming.
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Fonterra funded research tries to bury nitrate cancer risk
Greenpeace says research released by ESR and co-funded by dairy giant Fonterra excludes the most at-risk rural communities in its investigation into bowel cancer risk from nitrate in drinking water.
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Backdown on winter grazing rules ‘delaying the inevitable’
Greenpeace is today condemning a Government decision to reverse rules that would protect water by regulating intensive winter grazing.
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Expert review confirms key industry tool doesn’t reliably track water contamination
A new review out today of farm nutrient management system Overseer seriously damns the tool, and shows the model is leading to continued contamination of water and pollution of climate,…
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Enviro NGOs call for ‘under one’ nitrate pollution limit for water
Four of New Zealand’s leading environmental organisations are urging the Government to defend native species and human health by setting a nitrate pollution limit of under 1mg per litre for…
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Free drop-in nitrate water testing
Everyone should be able to trust that their water is clean and safe. But nitrate contamination is a growing problem in parts of New Zealand, thanks to synthetic nitrogen fertiliser…
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Govt must cut synthetic nitrogen fertiliser after adverse birth outcomes linked to nitrate contamination
Greenpeace says recent research into the link between adverse birth outcomes and nitrate contamination of drinking water should compel the government to take immediate action to cut sources of nitrate…
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NZ dairy industry’s use of palm kernel expeller undermining Indonesia’s climate action
Thursday, 29 April 2021: The use of palm kernel expeller (PKE) by New Zealand’s intensive dairying industry is linked to the destruction of peatland and rainforests, which is driving the…
