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News: tagged with "waste"

• 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

• Sustainability Fund looking to support climate action

  Posted: Wednesday, September 7, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: funding, sustainability, Community Groups, transport, waste, Climate Change
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 5th September 2022 Christchurch City Council’s Sustainability Fund is now open and accepting applications for projects that help address the Council’s climate change objectives and targets

• 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

• Council working to reduce smell from fire-damaged plant

  Posted: Thursday, November 4, 2021 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: waste, services, environmental health
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 4th November 2021 Christchurch City Council is working to install a sprinkler system over the smouldering trickling filters at the fire-damaged wastewater treatment plant to help extinguish hot spots and reduce the smel

• 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

• Work on disused landfills underway

  Posted: Tuesday, September 14, 2021 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: recovery, waste, environmental health
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 14th September 2021 Remediation of a former landfill site in Bexley is underway and plans to remediate another four at Le Bons Bay, Onuku, Barrys Bay and the Burwood Resource Recovery Park are being developed

• Pipeline for future Darfield Kirwee wastewater system under way

  Posted: Wednesday, August 11, 2021 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: water, waste, management
  Selwyn District Council media release: 10th August 2021 Construction has begun on a new wastewater pipeline connecting Darfield and Kirwee to the Pines Wastewater Treatment Plant

• Mass planting transforming land around Bromley oxidation ponds

  Posted: Wednesday, July 28, 2021 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: environment, waste, biodiversity
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 26th July 2021 The paddocks between Cuthberts Road and the oxidation ponds in Bromley are gradually being transformed by the addition of thousands of native trees and plants

• Innovation expands at Pines Wastewater Treatment Plant

  Posted: Wednesday, July 7, 2021 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: waste, management, energy
  Selwyn District Council media release: 5th July 2021 A first of its kind project for New Zealand has been doubled in a significant growth for the Pines Wastewater Treatment Plant

• 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

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