Learn about the 4 R's of recycling:

Check out our 5 short videos about the new national recycling standards

RecycleKiwi, NZ’s new recycling rules explained
RecycleKiwi, recycling metal bottle tops and lids
RecycleKiwi, recycling pizza boxes
RecycleKiwi, recycling plastic bottles and cans
RecycleKiwi, recycling soft plastics

RecycleKiwi – A community recycling initiative by CrestClean

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Indi and RecycleKiwi are here to help schools, businesses and organisations improve their recycling efforts with interesting and fun educational resources.

Education is the key to changing behaviours around waste minimisation. People of all ages need to understand the impact that waste has on our natural environment and learn the 4 R’s of recycling.

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Learn more about the 4 R’s

Video Resources

Great news! We have now made all of our educational videos available for download. These videos make a great educational resource for schools and organisations. Download, watch and share!

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Introducing the 4 R’s and the Environment

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Shopping Tips for Waste Minimisation

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Introducing the New Recycling Standards

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Recycling Metal Bottle Top and Lids

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The Making of 3D RecycleKiwi

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New 3D RecycleKiwi Logo Animation

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The Famous RecycleKiwi Resources Pack

The RecycleKiwi Resources Pack has everything you need to kick-start your waste management and recycling programme.
It’s free to order one for your school, business or organisation.

So, what’s in the pack…

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A large wall poster to help promote recycling awareness.

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Sticker Set for you to create your own recycling system

You can easily turn any rubbish bin into a recycling bin.

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Poster Set to highlight your recycling system

7 colourful wall posters to display recycling information… great for highlighting your recycling station.

In the below video Indi takes us through the development of our new 3D RecycleKiwi… and plays some beach cricket along the way.

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Kiwi Recycling News

Plastic cutlery can be recycled into home-insulating foam – new NZ research

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Biodegradable plastics are supposed to be good for the environment but, rather paradoxically, because they are designed to degrade quickly, they can’t be recycled. Offering a potential solution, New Zealand researchers have found that compostable plastic can be turned into

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Circular Economy Win: Reuseable Plastic Cups trialed on Air New Zealand flights.

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Air New Zealand (Air NZ) announced an exciting step towards minimising their environmental impacts last month with the news that they are trailing reusable plastic cups on domestic flights.

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One man’s trash is another’s treasure!

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The first month of a resource recovery trial in Katikati has seen more than eight tonnes of reusable items dropped off by the local community. Despite this, organisers say they want to keep up the momentum – feeling many Western

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How RecycleKiwi sparked a waste management revolution at Rutherford Primary School

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The recent tree planting at Rutherford Primary School shows how even small actions can have a big impact. It all started when CrestClean’s Thang Hlawnceu who cleans the school noticed there was a significant amount of waste in each classroom.

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Revolutionising waste management with RecycleKiwi and centralised rubbish bins

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Centralised rubbish bins replace individual desk bins with a designated waste station. This simple yet impactful approach to waste management in businesses and schools encourages proper waste separation and streamlines recycling initiatives. CrestClean’s Auckland West Regional Master Franchisee, Caroline Wedding,

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Navigating the new recycling rules – RecycleKiwi makes it easy

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Kiwis, it’s time to take more care in our recycling efforts. Now that February 1 has come and gone, recycling rules are now standardised across the country. This means every New Zealander has the same set of rules for what

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Aurora College embraces RecycleKiwi for school-wide waste minimisation initiative

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The RecycleKiwi programme is an easy way for schools and businesses to step up their green game and show some love to the planet. As a CrestClean initiative for tackling waste, RecycleKiwi is proving to be the waste management solution

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Kiwi eye surgeons see a new way forward by recycling medical waste

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In what is believed to be a world-first, Kiwi eye surgeons are recycling their medical waste. The sustainability team at Southern Cross Healthcare has teamed up with Johnson & Johnson to repurpose 10,000 disposal lens delivery systems.

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Expanding closed loop recycling bins

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Will&Able, Z Energy (Z), and Anchor Milk have announced they plan to expand a trial of dedicated, closed-loop recycling bins at selected Z service stations.

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Kaikoura’s glass headed for recycling instead of landfill

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A new glass recycling system is coming to Kaikōura, with kerbside bins being rolled out to households and a destination locked in for the collected bottles and jars.

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Should soft plastics be collected in kerbside recycling?

Kiwi Recycling News

It is estimated that thousands of tonnes of soft plastics are sent to landfill each year, so if it was an option to put them in with kerbside recycling would that get more people onboard?

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Green team to score gold in recycling efforts

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The Zespri AIMS Games green team are getting ready to have a huge impact by leading recycling efforts throughout the week long event. The goal of the green team is to create the least amount of waste possible.

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World Recycling View archive

Cigarette recycling: Slovakia is transforming filters into asphalt for roads

Only an estimated third of the cigarette butts from the 18 billion cigarettes smoked worldwide every day end up in a rubbish or recycling bin.

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‘Game-changing’ PPE recycling technology turns masks and gowns into school chairs

The UK is using an estimated 53 million single-use face masks daily and one hospital alone is getting through 10,000 masks a day.

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Scientists Figured Out How to Recycle The Key Component in Diapers

Diaper waste is a real problem, with an estimated 300,000 of them disposed of every single minute worldwide. Now, scientists may have come up with a solution.

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Gamifying Sustainability: How Binpong is Turning Recycling into a Fun and Rewarding Experience

The principal goal of Binpong is to reduce landfill waste by turning recycling into a fun experience with the help of gamification.

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