Rubbish and recycling

Our kerbside red bin service delivers approximately 42,000 tonnes of rubbish per year to landfill. In addition, our public EcoDrops and transfer stations around Christchurch and Banks Peninsula receive almost 73,000 tonnes of rubbish each year. Our kerbside recycling yellow bin service produces approximately 27,000 tonnes per year.

We propose spending $64 million on recycling and transfer station improvements over the next 10 years.

We no longer use our old landfills, which require careful management to make sure they don’t affect their surrounding environment. We plan to complete a Closed Landfill Management Plan over the first few years of the LTP and propose spending $22 million at Burwood and other landfills on aftercare management and mitigation, including $4 million at Okains Bay.

Organics

With the planned closure of the current Bromley Organics Processing Plant in 2026/27, we’re investing $3 million in interim arrangements for the site, ahead of the new, fully-enclosed organics processing facility in Hornby opening in 2027. This new facility will be independently developed and operated by Ecogas.