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News: tagged with "recycling"

• 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

• Contamination crew to support recycling

  Posted: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: recycling, waste, management, support, services
  Selwyn District Council media release: 1st December 2020 A team of four is hitting the streets from this week to support Selwyn residents to recycle right

• Are you a bin whizz?

  Posted: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: support, technology, waste, management, recycling
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 30th November 2020 Christchurch residents are being invited to play an interactive online game that will test their knowledge of what items belong in the red, yellow and green wheelie bins

• Recycling: The good, the bad and the ugly

  Posted: Wednesday, November 25, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: waste, management, recycling
  Waimakariri District Council media release: 24th November 2020 The Council are praising residents who cleaned up their recycling following a bin-checking campaign running over the last two months

• Taking a Close Look at Your Recycling

  Posted: Thursday, September 10, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: waste, management, recycling
  Waimakariri District Council media release: 9th September 2020 Recycling contaminated by rubbish is threatening the viability of the kerbside collection service and hitting ratepayers in the wallet

• Government plan to tackle problem plastics and seven single-use plastic items

  Posted: Wednesday, August 12, 2020 in: Resources and Information With tags: recycling, environment, Report, consultation, waste, management
  Beehive media release: 12th August 2020 Following the success of the phase out of single-use plastic shopping bags, the Government now has plans to phase out more single-use and problem plastics to reduce waste and protect the environment announced Associ

• 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

• Wheelie bin spot checks set to resume

  Posted: Wednesday, May 27, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: services, recycling, waste, management
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 27th May 2020 Spot checks of yellow wheelie bins put out for kerbside collection will resume next week as Christchurch City Council steps up its effort to get people recycling right

• High levels of contamination threatening recycling operation

  Posted: Wednesday, May 6, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: recycling, waste, management
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 6th May 2020 Residents continuing to put garden waste and other rubbish in their yellow wheelie bin are threatening the viability of the city’s recycling operation

• City Council to review how it tackles waste

  Posted: Wednesday, April 29, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: waste, management, recycling, planning
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 29th April 2020 Christchurch City Council is planning a major review of how it manages and minimises the city’s waste

• 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

• Bin checks focus on helping people recycle correctly

  Posted: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: recycling, environmental health, waste, management
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 15th January 2020 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

• Plant fire prompts warning about batteries in bins

  Posted: Thursday, October 24, 2019 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: environmental health, waste, management, recycling
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 24th October 2019 A 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

• Soft plastics must go in red wheelie bin

  Posted: Wednesday, August 21, 2019 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: waste, recycling
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 19th August 2019 About 45 tonnes of soft plastics are ending up at Christchurch’s EcoSort recycling plant each month because people mistakenly believe they will be recycled

• 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