February 10, 2026 0 New Zealanders are being called on to double check their lifejackets before going out on the water, due to a fault found in an inflator mechanism which may result in jackets not inflating as expected. The call comes from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment and Maritime New Zealand, who say there are more than 21,000 affected units throughout New Zealand.
February 10, 2026 0 Across the infrastructure and construction sectors, material passports are emerging as a promising tool for enabling circularity. They’re often described as a “bank of materials. After all, they catalogue the materials embedded within a building so they can be withdrawn at the end of life and reused elsewhere. I now see material passports as closer in spirit to a donor organ registry than to a financial ledger, say HERA’s Troy Coyle