Rubbish, recycling and organics

By putting the right items in the right bin, you’re helping our city to reduce waste and save money.

There’s no bin collection on Christmas Day and New Year’s Day.

From 25 December until 5 January, Wednesday to Friday collections are a day later, becoming Thursday to Saturday collections. There are no changes to Monday and Tuesday collections.

Please put your bins out by 6am. Thanks for bin good.

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Recycling – yellow bin

Helps us to recycle. Paper, cans, cardboard, glass, plastic bottles and containers. Collected every two weeks.

Rubbish – red bin

By putting the right stuff in the red bin, you’re keeping the other bins free of contaminants. Collected every two weeks.

Organics – green bin

Help us to make our organic compost. We take food and garden waste. Collected weekly.

Find my collection day

Collection day details for kerbside collection service, inner-city bag collections and community collection points.

EcoDrop transfer stations and Resource Recovery Centres

Locations for disposing of large quantities of waste or items that are not collected through the wheelie bin service.

Hazardous waste

Learn about the safe disposal of hazardous items, including gas bottles, car batteries, fire extinguishers and more.

Christchurch bins mobile app

Download this free app and keep up to date with your rubbish and recycling information.

Bin item lookup

Find out what goes in each bin, or what can be dropped off for free at the EcoDrop recycling centre.

My bins

Information on your wheelie bins, including reporting lost, stolen or missing bins and changing bin sizes.

How we're going

Fact, stats and grants on rubbish and recycling in Christchurch.

Do more to help with rubbish and recycling

Information, educational resources and downloads.

Banks Peninsula transfer stations and collection points

Transfer stations and collection points let you dispose of green waste, rubbish and recycling.

Organics Processing Plant

Our composting facility in Bromley, operated by Living Earth, receives all the food and green waste from green bins.

Burwood Landfill

A section of Burwood Landfill is available for the disposal of soils that contain low levels of contaminants.

Kerbside changes

From 1 February 2024, new national standards to kerbside bin collections are in place. Find out more.

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