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With most people having discarded their mask now that the rules are almost completely over, lots of them have ended up as landfill or litter. But the country's largest mask manufacturer is offering customers a way to recycle them into fence posts. Reporter Louise Ternouth and Camera Operator Marika Khabazi went to find out more.

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Thursday, 27 May 2021, 11:03 am Mondelēz New Zealand (MDLZ NZ), maker of Cadbury Dairy Milk, Pascall, Oreo and Philadelphia, and Conservation Volunteers New Zealand (CVNZ) today announce a multi-year project aimed at restoring and protecting the Papakura Stream. The Papakura Stream in South Auckland runs from Brookby to the Manukau Harbour via the Pahurehure inlet and is approximately 63 km long with a catchment covering 4,100 ha. The restoration of this significant freshwater system will incl...

Scott Hammond/Stuff Future Post national accounts manager Diana Jamieson, left, and Marlborough District Council solid waste manager Alec McNeil, with the new fence posts made of recycled plastic at Blenheim’s Bluegums Landfill. Fence posts made of recycled plastics are popping up at a Blenheim landfill, coming full circle for the project conceived on an old rubbish site. Future Post founder Jerome Wenzlick was fencing on an old landfill site, having broken several wooden posts on buried pla...