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Don’t let the growing mound of packaging, wrapping paper, broken decorations and empty bottles get on top of you this Christmas. Use these helpful tips to make the right decisions about what to do with your festive waste.

Christchurch City Council is seeking the public’s views on a flexible wheelie bin system that would allow people who choose to down-size their bins to pay less.

Some Christchurch residents are mistakenly disposing of electronic devices in their yellow bins instead of dropping off unwanted laptops, computers, monitors and cell phones at the City Council’s EcoDrop Recycling Centres or e-waste specialists.

Rates would need to go up and organic waste would be diverted to landfill if Christchurch City Council was to close the organics processing plant in Bromley ahead of establishing a processing plant at another location.

Dreading 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.

Spot checks of yellow wheelie bins put out for kerbside collection show people are getting the message about what items can be accepted for recycling.

Christchurch’s organic processing plant will continue to operate from its Bromley site for now.

Making sure there is no rubbish mixed in with the recycling has become critically important in the face of shrinking international markets for used plastic and paper. Christchurch City Council Head of Three Waters and Waste Helen Beaumont explains