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Christchurch Mayor Lianne Dalziel is welcoming Government efforts to address New Zealand’s recycling issues and in particular our reliance on off-shore markets

A Christchurch metal recycling business is on a fast track to improving the local environment via a high-tech treatment train, leading to a major upgrade in its on-site waste management.

Greater flexibility for kerbside bin sizes is one of several changes in the proposed Draft Waste Management and Minimisation Bylaw 2023.

There is no change to our kerbside collection service. You should continue to put your bins out as normal. If the situation changes, we will keep you fully informed.

Over 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.

A multi-million dollar upgrade of the plant where recyclable items collected through Christchurch’s kerbside collection are sorted and readied for sale is about to get under way.

Some Christchurch residents are going to be surveyed to understand their kerbside service requirements and whether they’d be interested in a user-pays charging system based on the size of their bins.

A 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.

Christchurch and Banks Peninsula residents are being urged to check their wheelie bins have been electronically tagged because untagged bins will soon stop being emptied.

Efforts to reduce the amount of waste in Christchurch going to landfill have received a boost with news the city’s Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) will be upgraded.