Wheelie Bins – update
Disposing of treated wood in your wheelie bins?
Please place all building material scraps, processed (either treated or machined) wood, off-cuts and residues such as sawdust and cold ash into your red rubbish bin, not your green organics or yellow recycling bins. Machined wood can be treated with a range of preservatives to prolong its life as it is used for outdoor purposes, but it is difficult to identify whether the wood has or has not been treated to prolong its life from fungicides, pesticides, retard fire or to protect it from ultra violet light. More info here and our FAQs page.
What to do with wheelie bins - if moving house
What to do with wheelie bins - if your house is being demolished
When wheelie bins are put outside the wrong property
What if I want to change the size of my bins?
How do I dispose of my camping or BBQ gas cylinders?
Your specific wheelie-bin collection questions may also be answered in our FAQs page. If you require more information please phone the Council on 941 8666/ 0800 800 169 .
Rubbish & recycling services
The Council provides a range of services to manage the safe disposal of commercial and household waste:
Kerbside Collection
On our Kerbside collection page you can find specific information about:
If you can't find the answer to your kerbside wheelie bin question in our
FAQs section please call us on
(03) 941 8666 .
Use of these services are covered by the Waste Management Bylaw 2009.
Assisted kerbside recycling for schools programme
Schools not rated for a kerbside collection service can join the Assisted Kerbside Recycling for Schools Programme. They can also learn about waste by booking into a Learning Through Action Programme.
EcoDrops and Transfer Stations
There are five sites across Christchurch and Banks Peninsula where a range of waste can be taken for reuse, recycling or disposal.
Other ways to minimise waste
Apart from the kerbside collection service there are many other things you can do at home, at school or at work to minimise waste.
Waste statistics
How are we doing? Check out our waste statistics to see how much waste has been diverted from landfill this year. This also gives access to tables and graphs tracking the amount of waste collected, disposed of and recycled in Christchurch.
Resources and forms
Downloadable PDFs covering a wide range of information about waste.
View the recycling and organics processing plants in action
Find out what happens to your waste after it's collected from your green kerbside wheelie bin on this 5 minute video | Find out what happens to your recycled materials from your yellow kerbside wheelie bin on this 5 minute video |
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