Initiative to divert caps and lids from landfill expands into Wellington Eleven Foodstuffs supermarkets in the region are establishing collection points for plastic and metal caps and lids, joining Auckland, Tauranga and Christchurch, in a programme which now has about 50 drop-off points across New Zealand.
Over-fuelled plane leaves uni-bound passengers behind Passengers on an Air New Zealand flight from Wellington to Dunedin on Saturday were told 13 volunteers would need to get off the plane to lighten the load or all the baggage would be left behind.