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News: tagged with "waste"

• Composting 101 with Para Kore

  Posted: Friday, February 3, 2023 in: Training With tags: workshop, waste, Food
  Join Miriama from Para Kore to learn about the different composting options and what ones are in action at Riverlution Eco Hub. Date: Monday 13th February 2023.Time: 5.30 to 7pm.Location: Riverlution Eco Hub (46A Vogel Street, Richmond)

• Consultation opens on new waste bylaw

  Posted: Thursday, February 2, 2023 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: waste, management, consultation, community engagement, submissions
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 30th January 2023 Greater flexibility for kerbside bin sizes is one of several changes in the proposed Draft Waste Management and Minimisation Bylaw 2023

• Christchurch’s recycling facility benefits from upgrade

  Posted: Wednesday, January 25, 2023 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: recycling, waste, management
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 25th January 2023 Residents are being reminded to continue recycling correctly following a $16.8 million upgrade of the city’s recycling facility

• Seasonal building tips: Septic tank maintenance

  Posted: Wednesday, January 25, 2023 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: waste, management
  Selwyn District Council media release: 24th January 2023 It’s important to remember that your septic tank is a living, breathing environment. To function effectively, it needs regular maintenance

• Christchurch residents bin good

  Posted: Tuesday, October 4, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: recycling, waste
  Christchurch City Council media release: 3rd October 2022 Christchurch residents have earned a collective gold star for their recycling efforts after the city notched-up a significant milestone last month

• Tailings removed from organics processing plant

  Posted: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: waste, pollution, management, consultation
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 27th September 2022 Christchurch City Council has completed the process of removing tailings, surplus to operational requirements, from the Organics Processing Plant site in Bromley

• Significant impact for Christchurch if organics processing plant closes

  Posted: Wednesday, May 25, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: waste, management
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 24th May 2022 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 anot

• Work to end wastewater plant stench starting

  Posted: Wednesday, May 11, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: waste, recovery, management
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 11th May 2022 Southern Demolition and Salvage Ltd will begin the task tomorrow of removing the rotting material from the fire-damaged trickling filters at the Christchurch Wastewater Treatment Plant

• Reassuring news from gas testing at wastewater plant

  Posted: Wednesday, May 4, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: recovery, waste, management
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 3rd May 2022 Independent testing to better understand the odours from around the fire-damaged Christchurch Wastewater Treatment Plant shows the stench is largely due to sulphurous gases

• Alternate sites for organics processing plant need more investigation

  Posted: Thursday, April 28, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: environmental health, waste, management
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 28th April 2022 Christchurch City Council has agreed in principle that it will relocate the organics processing plant in Bromley to an alternative location

• Aerators surge to life at wastewater treatment plant

  Posted: Wednesday, April 6, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: recovery, management, waste
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 6th April 2022 Eight new aerators have been turned on at the fire-damaged Christchurch Wastewater Treatment Plant as the Council’s mid-term recovery plan to address one of the two sources of unpleasant odours reaches it

• 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

• Aeration components arriving at Christchurch Wastewater Treatment Plant

  Posted: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: recovery, waste, services, environmental health
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 15th February 2022 Aeration components from around the world are arriving at the Christchurch Wastewater Treatment Plant, as the Christchurch City Council starts implementing its medium-term plan to minimise odours from

• Red wheelie bin best place for used masks

  Posted: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: waste, disease
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 8th February 2022 Christchurch residents can help stop single-use face masks from becoming a litter problem by taking used masks home with them and putting them in the red wheelie bin

• 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

• 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

• New smart bins coming to a park near you

  Posted: Wednesday, June 2, 2021 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: waste, management, parks, recreation
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 1st June 2021 ‘Smart’ bins are being installed in community parks around Christchurch as the city council moves to reduce maintenance costs in the city’s public spaces

• 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

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