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From 1 February, kerbside practices nationwide will be standardised. That means most Kiwis will now be able to recycle the same things from home.

These changes are part of the Government’s move to standardise household kerbside collections across Aotearoa New Zealand, led by the Ministry for the Environment.

The Council’s Resource Recovery and Waste Manager, Andrew Boyd said these changes are designed to make recycling easier for everyone.

“In Selwyn we are already recycling in line with most of these new requirements so for our residents this means there isn’t a lot of change”.

What is changing for our district, is you can no longer place cardboard or paper, including pizza boxes into your household green organics bin. These go in your yellow recycling bin. Pizza boxes need to be empty - free of food and sauce. Oil stains are fine.

The exception to this, is that you can still use newspaper to line the bottom of your organics bin, or supermarket paper bags, that you might use to line your food scraps bin inside.

Aerosol cans must now also go in your red bin.

Remember that the Pines Resource Recovery Park does accept a wider range of recyclable items that may not be able to be accepted in your kerbside recycling bins. To find out more about what Pines Resource Recovery Park accepts please visit selwyn.govt.nz/pines

For more information on all kerbside recycling changes, and for a full list of details of what can go into your bins, please visit selwyn.govt.nz/kerbsidechanges

Last modified: 29 Jan 2024 12:33pm