Guides, booklets and videos about rubbish and recycling.
Bin Good guide
- Bin Good guide [PDF, 10 MB]
We are updating our Bin Good guide in 12 languages. These will be available soon.
Top 10 tips
- Top tips to bin good [PDF, 635 KB]
Videos
- Bin good with recycling in Christchurch(external link)
- How to prepare your recycling(external link)
- Fire Service NZ: Disposing of hot ash waste(external link)
- What can go in your yellow bin (external link)
- What can go into your red bin (external link)
- What can go in your green bin (external link)
The recycling separation process
- The recycling separation process diagram [PDF, 8.6 MB]
- How recycling is sorted at EcoSort (video)(external link)
Posters for your workplace
- Workplace signage – All bins – A4 landscape [PDF, 4.2 MB]
- Workplace signage – All bins - A4 portrait [PDF, 2.9 MB]
- Workplace signage – All bins - A3 landscape [PDF, 6.4 MB]
- Workplace signage – All bins - A3 portrait [PDF, 5.6 MB]
- Yellow bin A4 poster [PDF, 987 KB]
- Red bin A4 poster [PDF, 1.3 MB]
- Green bin A4 poster [PDF, 2 MB]
Dispose for free at one of the EcoDrop recycling centres.
- Christchurch's organics plant and your green bin kerbside waste
[PDF, 5.2 MB] - Compost Food Loop [JPG, 351 KB]
(external link)
- A guide to worm composting [PDF, 753 KB]
- A guide to garden composting [PDF, 3.8 MB]
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