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News: tagged with "recycling"

• Soft Plastic Recycling back in Rangiora

  Posted: Wednesday, April 6, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: recycling
  Waimakariri District Council media release: 5th April 2022 After a three year pause in service, the team at The Packaging Forum recently confirmed that Soft Plastics Recycling Scheme will return to stores in Rangiora in early April

• Donate your old laptop to reduce e-waste and bridge the digital divide

  Posted: Wednesday, April 6, 2022 in: Resources and Information With tags: education, technology, recycling
  Recycle A Device (RAD) is an initiative which gets laptops to those who need them

• Upgrade to start on Christchurch’s recycling plant

  Posted: Thursday, March 31, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: services, waste, management, recycling
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 31st March 2022 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

• How to recycle household batteries safely

  Posted: Thursday, February 3, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: waste, management, recycling
  Batteries cannot be placed into any of your kerbside or wheelie bins. They can cause bin and truck fires. Truck fires result in the whole load being sent to landfill - rather than getting recycled

• Supporting global action to combat marine plastic pollution

  Posted: Thursday, February 3, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: environment, health, waste, recycling, pollution
  Ministry for the Environment media release: 2nd February 2022 New Zealand has joined other countries in stating support for coordinated global action to combat marine plastic pollution through a new global agreement

• Need help with the Christmas clean-up?

  Posted: Wednesday, December 15, 2021 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: waste, recycling
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 15th December 2021 If the very thought of the post-Christmas clean-up has you breaking out in a sweat, we’ve got some handy tips to help make the job easier

• Recycle A Device: Bridging the digital divide

  Posted: Wednesday, December 8, 2021 in: Resources and Information With tags: education, technology, recycling
  Recycle A Device - or RAD - is an Aotearoa initiative which matches those who need a laptop with a donated and refurbished device

• Reduce e-waste, support students and contribute to community development

  Posted: Wednesday, October 20, 2021 in: Resources and Information With tags: services, technology, recycling
  Recycle A Device (RAD) is an Aotearoa-based initiative aiming to close the digital divide by bringing laptops and tech engineering skills to students and young people who need them

• What happens when you bin it?

  Posted: Wednesday, October 20, 2021 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: recycling, waste, management
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 18th October 2021 Christchurch City Council Resource Recovery Manager Ross Trotter lifts the lid on what happens with the stuff that you put in your red, green and yellow wheelie bins

• Bad recycling bill continues to climb

  Posted: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: waste, management, recycling
  Waimakariri District Council media release: 18th May 2021 Fresh statistics show that extra costs from bad recycling is still growing

• Selwyn steps up recycling efforts

  Posted: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: recycling, waste, management
  Selwyn District Council media release: 9th March 2021 Selwyn residents have been making a big effort to recycle correctly over the past three months

• Smart ways to stop e-waste being dumped in wrong bin

  Posted: Wednesday, February 3, 2021 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: waste, management, recycling, technology
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 3rd February 2021 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 EcoDr

• Council offers students hands-on learning opportunities

  Posted: Wednesday, January 20, 2021 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: environment, education, waste, recycling, children, youth
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 18th January 2021 Christchurch school students will get hands-on lessons this year on how to minimise their waste thanks to a free Learning Through Action programme run by Christchurch City Council

• New recycling guide on its way

  Posted: Thursday, July 30, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: waste, management, recycling
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 29th July 2020 Keep an eye on your letterbox for a handy new guide that will help you with your recycling efforts

• Join millions of people reducing their plastic waste

  Posted: Thursday, June 25, 2020 in: Resources and Information With tags: environment, waste, recycling
  Plastic Free July is a global movement that helps millions of people be part of the solution to plastic pollution – so we can have cleaner streets, oceans, and beautiful communities

• Find out the real story about recycling

  Posted: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: Community, seminar, services, waste, management, recycling
  EcoCentral operates the EcoSort recycling plant in Christchurch - the second largest in New Zealand

• Refill campaign invites people to smash their thirst, not the planet

  Posted: Thursday, January 30, 2020 in: Resources and Information With tags: water, environment, waste, recycling, management
  Beehive press release: 30th January 2020 A new campaign  by the Ministry for the Environment is being launched today. #FeelsGoodtoRefill encourages people to use refillable water bottles and reduce waste

• Boosted Car Seat Subsidies in the Waimakariri

  Posted: Thursday, October 25, 2018 in: Resources and Information With tags: safety, recycling, children, families
  Waimakariri District Council media release: 24th October 2018 Do you know that the cost to recycle your kid’s car seat at one of our local transfer stations is seriously subsidised by Council?  We introduced recycling of car seats earlier this year to ou

• Plastic bags and tetra pak cartons get red binned

  Posted: Thursday, September 20, 2018 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: waste, management, recycling
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 20th September 2018 Christchurch City Council is urging people to get into the habit of using re-usable shopping bags because it can no longer divert plastic bags from the landfill by recycling them