 The Recycling Trucks
Onyx collects from 125,000 households per week, 52 weeks a year. There are sixteen Onyx recycling trucks; fifteen for Christchurch City and one, which collects all the recycling, for Waimakariri District. The vehicles used in Christchurch are:
A competition designed to give local artists the chance to see their work reproduced on the side of our recycling trucks was run during October 2002. Find out about the winning entries.
L.E.V. vehicles
 The L.E.V. vehicles are a two-person operation,
with a driver and a recycling sorter.
The driver stands up in the
cab and drives from the left for ease of exiting the vehicle to
collect the green recycling bins.
The sorter stands in the rear
of the truck, to receive the green recycling crates then sort the
materials into categories such as aluminum, tin, plastic, glass,
newspaper, whole bottles, tetra-packs, egg trays, cartons and cardboard.
Each vehicle stops at about 2,000 household each day, collecting
up to 70 ton of recycling every week.
This vehicle has been specifically designed to collect in areas
where the bigger trucks struggle.
Lane truck
The lane truck collects both refuse
and recycling. The refuse is placed into the small compactor truck
where the recycling is sorted and placed in the trailer. This vehicle
also requires two people; one driving, the other collecting.
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Combination truck
 The combination truck is
used predominantly for lanes and in tight areas where a larger vehicle
would either not fit or find the area too small to turn around in.
This truck has separate recycling compartments fitted at the front
of the vehicle and a refuse area at the rear.
Green recycling crates
are carried along the sides of the truck to collect whole glass
bottles.
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Semi-trailer
 The semi-trailer is the latest addition to the Onyx fleet and is specifically designed for the purpose of carrying larger volumes of recyclables.
This vehicle has four staff, one permanent driver, two runners and one recycling sorter.
The runner’s job is to collect the green recycling crates and transfer the materials onto a sorting belt.
The materials travel up the sorting belt where the sorter manually places the coloured glass and paper into specific compartments. All other materials go into a mixed compartment in the truck.
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Truck Art
A competition designed to give local artists the chance to see
their work reproduced on the side of our recycling trucks was run
during October 2002.
The winning entries were:
Pots on a conveyor belt - Tsieske van den Broek
Super Recycle man - Johnny Fraser-Allen
Tag Art - Ellis Aranga
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