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Residents are being reminded to continue recycling correctly following a $16.8 million upgrade of the city’s recycling facility. EcoCentral has overhauled its Materials Recovery Facility in Parkhouse Road, Sockburn, using a $16.8 million grant that it received from the Ministry for the Environment’s special Covid-19 Response and Recovery Fund. It has installed new equipment, including…
Christchurch residents have earned a collective gold star for their recycling efforts after the city notched-up a significant milestone last month. In the last two weeks of September every truckload of recyclable material collected as part of the kerbside collection service was accepted for processing at the EcoSort, Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) in Parkhouse Road…
Christchurch’s organic processing plant will continue to operate from its Bromley site for now. Odour issue Christchurch City Council received a letter from Environment Canterbury on Monday 23 May informing it that, in the opinion of the regional council’s staff, the ongoing low levels of odour from the organics processing plant breach the abatement notice….
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 another location. The Council plans to move the organics processing operation, which Living Earth runs, to a new location but it…
The public holidays for Easter and Anzac Day are bringing some changes to Christchurch’s kerbside collection service. The service will not be operating on Good Friday – 15 April – so people whose bins are normally emptied on a Friday should put them out for collection on Saturday 16 April instead. Bins should be at…
A Christchurch City Council report is recommending deferring a decision on introducing a separate glass collection service until more is known about the implications of the Government’s plan for improving recycling in New Zealand. In November 2021 the Council asked staff to look at options for separate glass collection and recycling so that it could…
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. Over the next eight months the Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) in Parkhouse Road, Sockburn, will be completely overhauled. New hi-tech sorting equipment will be installed that will make…
A Christchurch pilot scheme aimed at getting potentially dangerous domestic batteries out of the waste stream is going to be expanded. Christchurch City Council has been given $35,000 from the Ministry for the Environment’s Waste Minimisation Fund to help expand its pilot hand-held battery collection scheme to a regional level. The Canterbury Waste Joint Committee,…
Christchurch City Council is seeking the public’s views on a flexible wheelie bin system that would allow people who choose to down-size their bins to pay less. “We want to respond to residents’ calls for more choice in the size of the bins that they have so we are proposing to introduce a flexible bin…
Efforts to reduce the amount of waste in Christchurch going to landfill have received a boost with news the city’s Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) will be upgraded. EcoCentral Limited, which owns the MRF, has received a $16.8 million grant from the Ministry for the Environment’s special Covid-19 Response and Recovery Fund to help it upgrade…
Akaroa’s Gloria Calcutt is a force to be reckoned with. Each week the diminutive 85 year old heads out with her foster son Keith. They’re on a mission to check the recycling collection points at remote communities on Banks Peninsula. Gloria used to drive herself but when Keith got his heavy vehicle licence he took on…
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. Remember that empty tomato sauce bottle that you put in your yellow wheelie bin for recycling? Did you know that could end up back in your house…
A subcontractor has been appointed to help with Christchurch’s kerbside collection service. “Over the past 12 months we have been working closely with our contractor, Waste Management NZ Ltd, as they have struggled to meet some of the performance targets for our kerbside collection. We understand there are a number of capacity constraints including a shortage…
Some Christchurch residents are going to be surveyed to understand their kerbside service requirements and whether they’d be interested in a user-pays charging system based on the size of their bins. The kerbside survey is part of the wider Life in Christchurch survey, going out today to 16,000 residents. “The information collected through the survey…
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 EcoDrop Recycling Centres or e-waste specialists. Christchurch City Council Resource Recovery Manager Ross Trotter says that, generally, recycling has improved across the city, with the rinsing of…
Don’t let the growing mound of packaging, wrapping paper, broken decorations and empty bottles get on top of you this Christmas. Use these helpful tips to make the right decisions about what to do with your festive waste. Disposing of Christmas gift unwrapping You can put cardboard or paper left behind after Christmas presents have…
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. The game, which people can play on their smartphones and online has been developed by Christchurch City Council staff and is the latest tool in the Council’s…
Christchurch City Council has released a new version of its free wheelie bin app to help people bin good. The updated app enables people to receive reminders about which bins they need to put out for kerbside collection each week and provides useful information about what items belong in the red, yellow and green bins….
More than 1450 residents have been sent a letter warning them that their yellow wheelie bin will be removed unless they clean-up their recycling act. Since the beginning of the year Christchurch City Council has been carrying out checks on the contents of the yellow wheelie bins as part of its effort to get people…
A new plan that focuses on changing our ‘throw-away’ culture and reducing the amount of waste being dumped at landfill has been adopted by Christchurch City Council. The 2020 Waste Minimisation and Management Plan was approved by the Three Waters Infrastructure and Environment Committee today. It outlines how the Council plans to tackle the city’s…
A Christchurch metal recycling business is on a fast track to improving the local environment via a high-tech treatment train, leading to a major upgrade in its on-site waste management. An industry veteran, Metalcorp NZ has taken a two-pronged approach to treating trade waste and reducing storm-water contamination in order to mitigate the impact of…
State-of-the-art sorting equipment will be installed at the plant that processes Christchurch’s recycling material thanks to a multi-million dollar grant from the Government. The Ministry for the Environment (MfE) has announced $16.8 million in funding for EcoCentral to upgrade the optical and mechanical sorting machines it uses at its Parkhouse Road Materials Recovery Facility (MRF)….
Got ideas for how we can reduce rubbish and manage waste in more sustainable ways? Christchurch City Council is seeking public input on its draft Waste Management and Minimisation Plan 2020 which sets out how it plans to manage and minimise the district’s waste. Have your say on the draft Waste Management and Minimisation Plan…
Keep an eye on your letterbox for a handy new guide that will help you with your recycling efforts. The guide is packed with useful information about what items belong in the yellow recycling bin and is aimed at making it easy for people to recycle correctly. It is being delivered to every household in…
A new plan aims to reduce the city’s rubbish and manage it in a more sustainable way to cut waste and pollution. The draft Waste Management and Minimisation Plan 2020 will be considered by elected members next week and a decision will be made on consulting with the community to get feedback and ideas. Read…
Making sure there is no rubbish mixed in with the recycling has become critically important in the face of shrinking international markets for used plastic and paper. Christchurch City Council Head of Three Waters and Waste Helen Beaumont explains why. Wheelie bin spot checks resume Spot checks of yellow wheelie bins put out for kerbside…