A worker at Dunedin's recycling plant is facing a nervous six-month wait for blood test results after being pricked by a discarded syringe.
The story of Dunedin's latest foray into city recycling makes dismal reading.
The largest toxic waste problem of the 21st century is failing to be arrested by Queenstown residents, with increasing numbers of residents choosing to dump their old electronics in the landfill rather than pay recycling fees.
Glass recycling facilities for smaller Central Otago towns are on the way, just in time for the holiday rush.
Wanaka Wastebusters was dealt a serious blow by the Queenstown Lakes District Council yesterday, when the plug was pulled on its kerbside recycling contract in favour of Auckland-owned company Smart Environmental Ltd, which significantly undercut its competition.
One-third of Wakatipu residents disposing of unwanted electronic equipment chose to pay to have it recycled rather than dumped in the Queenstown landfill in the first 10 days of the new e-Cycle depot at the Frankton Refuse Station.
The first drop of what is expected to be a flood of electronic waste fell on Monday, when an unwanted television was left at the new e-Cycle depot at the Frankton Refuse Station.
A funding shortfall has cost the jobs of seven disabled Cargill Enterprises workers providing labour at Dunedin's Green Island recycling plant, leaving board chairman Chris Staynes "disappointed".
To compensate for rubbish collections cancelled due to snow last week, the Dunedin City Council contractors will pick up any extra recycling next Tuesday.
Otago people are increasingly aware they will either have to upgrade or replace their analogue televisions within the next 18 months - just ask the charity shops.
A new charge on the first rates bill for the financial year is confusing some Clutha district ratepayers.
Mahatma Gandhi once said we do not inherit the Earth from our parents; we borrow it from our children.
As recycling awareness grows, so does the pile of glass in the yard of Central Otago WasteBusters. For 10 years WasteBusters has collected glass from the Central Otago region, saving it from going in to landfill. Sarah Marquet investigates the process of glass recycling.
Red cards have been flashed 12 times as the Dunedin City Council cracks down on attempts to recycle dead cats, stereo systems and bags of household rubbish.
Dunedin's new wheelie bins have prompted a 30% increase in recycling in the city, Dunedin City Council figures show.
Safety concerns mean hundreds of ratepayers will have to buy new recycling bins for glass - albeit at a discounted price - to use as part of the Dunedin City Council's kerbside collection system.
The Dunedin City Council's weekly collection of glass from its new recycling system more than doubled in volume last week, when the campus area had its first glass recycling pick-up.
Despite some confusion across Dunedin about the city's new $26.7 million recycling system, and late pick-ups by workers getting used to new routes, the city council is happy with progress in the first week.
A messy clash of yellow-lidded wheelie bins, black rubbish bags and blue bins jostled for space beside Dunedin streets as the city's new kerbside collection service was unveiled yesterday.
Dunedin's streets will be transformed from next week - at least on collection day. The bright yellow lids of the new recycling wheelie bins will demand attention. But it's what is inside that's...