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News: tagged with "recycling"

• 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

• New recycling boost for Cust Community

  Posted: Wednesday, July 31, 2019 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: recycling, waste, management
  Waimakariri District Council media release: 29th July 2019 Rural residents in the Cust area will be relieved they no longer need to drive to Oxford or Rangiora to deal with recyclables, as a rural recycling drop-off centre opens within the community

• Banned bags offered second life in Selwyn

  Posted: Wednesday, July 10, 2019 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: business, waste, management, recycling
  Selwyn District Council media release: 9th July 2019 Businesses in Selwyn are being given a chance to recycle their unused single-use plastic bags with the support of the Selwyn District Council

• 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

• Are you recycling right?

  Posted: Wednesday, July 19, 2017 in: Resources and Information With tags: waste, management, recycling
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 17th July 2017 Between 35 and 40 tonnes of unwanted steel tools and appliances are ending up at Christchurch’s EcoSort plant each month because people are incorrectly putting them in their recycling wheelie bin

• Exchange reusable materials at Free Materials

  Posted: Thursday, June 13, 2013 in: Resources and Information With tags: waste, recycling, environmental health, sustainability
  Skip the dump fees and use the Free Materials service