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News: tagged with "waste"

• 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

• 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

• Work under way at Bromley organics processing plant

  Posted: Wednesday, May 12, 2021 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: waste, management, development
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 10th May 2021 Changes are being made at the Organics Processing Plant at Bromley to minimise odour issues and prepare the site for a multimillion-dollar redevelopment

• 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

• Loburn Lea sewer construction to begin

  Posted: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: roadworks, traffic, transport, waste
  Waimakariri District Council media release: 1st March 2021 Council is planning ahead and improving the quality of infrastructure for our residents as our district continues to grow and develop

• 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

• Students’ initiative gets community new doggy poo bin

  Posted: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: waste, management, pets
  Waimakariri District Council media release: 2nd November 2020 A new dog poo bin has been installed in Pegasus thanks to Woodend School Students Ashley Kerr and Poppy Archer

• Finish line in sight for Lyttelton Harbour wastewater project

  Posted: Thursday, October 15, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: waste, management, environmental health
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 14th October 2020 A $53 million wastewater project to improve the health of Whakaraupō/Lyttelton Harbour is a step closer to completion

• Riverbeds are not dumping grounds

  Posted: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: environment, waste, pollution
  Environment Canterbury media release: 29th September 2020 An increase in the number of incidents of people dumping rubbish in riverbeds in the Selwyn district is causing concern for river users

• 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

• Sustainable surfaces seal city street appeal

  Posted: Wednesday, September 9, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: waste, management, sustainability, repair, transport
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 8th September 2020 An innovative asphalt mix created from recycled waste plastic has put Christchurch on the road to sustainable street surface solutions

• 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

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