5 Dec 2024

Don't waste soil

From Afternoons, 1:35 pm on 5 December 2024

Today is World Soil Day - so it's timely to speak to a man who is leading the call for a change to the way we view soil. 

Rod Lidgard is from Waste-MINZ - the largest representative body of New Zealand's waste, resource recovery and contaminated land sectors. 

He's the lead author of a paper urging the government to treat soil as a resource- not as waste.

Students testing the soil quality at Criffel Station

Students testing the soil quality at Criffel Station Photo: Ocular / Monique Thorp

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