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Our top 10 tips to help you bin right
Rubbish & recycling | 5 Feb 2020Over the past week we’ve had some great questions come in about what you can put in your yellow wheelie bin. To help you bin good, we’ve put together a list of 10 handy tips.
Checks reveal too much rubbish in recycling bin
Rubbish & recycling | 5 Feb 2020Spot checks show about one in three people is misusing the yellow wheelie bin by putting in things like food scraps, used nappies, and clothing.
Christchurch City Council supports landfill levy rise
Rubbish & recycling | 30 Jan 2020Christchurch City Council says the Ministry for the Environment (MfE) proposal to increase the levy rates for landfills is a positive step forward.
Bin checks focus on helping people recycle correctly
Rubbish & recycling | 15 Jan 2020A team of four will begin spot checking the contents of yellow wheelie bins next week in a bid to improve people’s understanding of what stuff can be put out for recycling.
Bin good and nail the post-Christmas clean-up
Rubbish & recycling | 20 Dec 2019Dreading the post-Christmas clean-up? Here are a few handy tips on what you can and can’t put in your kerbside wheelie bins. By putting the right items in the right bins you will be helping to reduce the amount of waste going to landfill.
Plant fire prompts warning about batteries in bins
Rubbish & recycling | 24 Oct 2019A battery discarded in a yellow wheelie bin is the likely cause of a fire at the EcoSort recycling plant that led to one person being hospitalised.
Bigbelly bins lay waste to Banks Peninsula rubbish over summer
Rubbish & recycling | 5 Sep 2019Extra solar-powered Bigbelly rubbish bins placed across Banks Peninsula will help ease the pressure on collection services and facilities as Akaroa readies for another busy summer visitor season.
Soft plastics must go in red wheelie bin
Rubbish & recycling | 19 Aug 2019About 45 tonnes of soft plastics are ending up at Christchurch’s EcoSort recycling plant each month because people mistakenly believe they will be recycled.
Eco-packaging trials reduce event waste
Rubbish & recycling | 29 Jul 2019Nearly 100 tonnes of waste has been diverted from the landfill thanks to Christchurch City Council-led efforts to ensure compostable food packaging is used at public events in the city.
Untagged wheelie bins will no longer be emptied
Rubbish & recycling | 30 May 2019Christchurch and Banks Peninsula residents are being urged to check their wheelie bins have been electronically tagged because untagged bins will soon stop being emptied.
Christchurch’s burning issue: Battery-sparked fires in waste
Rubbish & recycling | 13 May 2019A 12-month battery collection trial is under way in Christchurch amid rising concerns over battery-sparked fires in wheelie bin collection trucks and at processing facilities.
Mayor welcomes work to address recycling issues
Rubbish & recycling | 10 May 2019Christchurch Mayor Lianne Dalziel is welcoming Government efforts to address New Zealand’s recycling issues and in particular our reliance on off-shore markets