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News: tagged with "waste"

• 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

• Water charge proposed for high-use households

  Posted: Thursday, June 4, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: water, waste, management, consultation, community engagement
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 2nd June 2020 Christchurch City Council is considering charging households that use large amounts of water in an effort to make the service fairer and to smooth peak demand over summer

• 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

• Residents urged to space wheelie bins apart

  Posted: Wednesday, April 8, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: waste, management, lockdown
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 7th April 2020 Residents putting out their wheelie bins for kerbside collection are being urged to space them well apart so they don’t need to be handled

• Keep dog poo out of park bins

  Posted: Wednesday, April 8, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: parks, waste, recreation
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 6th April 2020 People out walking their dogs are being asked to take used dog poo bags home with them rather than dumping them in park rubbish bins

• Wipes go in the bin - not the loo

  Posted: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: waste, hygiene
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 16th March 2020 Christchurch City Council is reminding people not to flush wet wipes down the toilet following a spate of wastewater blockages in Auckland

• Lyttelton wastewater pipeline flows into place

  Posted: Wednesday, March 4, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: waste, water, environmental health, management
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 2nd March 2020 A 535-metre wastewater pipeline has been installed under the Heathcote River, marking a major milestone in work on the Lyttelton Harbour wastewater project

• City Council phasing out printed agendas for sake of trees

  Posted: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 in: Resources and Information With tags: waste, management, Climate Change
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 25th February 2020 A successful initiative to reduce costs and paper use by switching to electronic meetings agendas is being extended to Christchurch’s libraries and service centres

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