What Goes In Which Bin?

• Toner and ink cartridges
• Computers and electrical parts
• Batteries
• Corrugated cardboard
• Expanded polystyrene
• Used parcel and courier bags
• Other items

• Printed office paper (stapled pages are ok)
• Books and magazines (including glossy ones)
• Newspapers
• Glossy paper
• Envelopes (including envelopes with windows)
• Thin cardboard/box-board
• Clean paper towels
• Unsoiled paper cafe bags
• No Plastic
• No Food
• No laminated posters
• No Soiled Paper
• No Corrugated Cardboard - please recycle this separately
• No Confidential Paper - please shred this first or, request a document-destruct bin from Cleaning Services (ext 6481)

• glass bottles and jars,
• aluminium and tin/steel cans,
• small amounts of other metal
• all plastic containers
• tetra-pak cartons (e.g. juice boxes etc.)
• takeaway coffee cups
• plastic supermarket bags
• shrink wrap and bale wrap
• No Food

• all food waste (both raw and cooked)
• tea-bags and coffee grounds (and filters)
• flowers
• any other plant material
• No Plastic

• plastic wrappings such as chip packets, pie wrappers and muesli bar wrappers
• plastic packaging including bubble wrap
• chewing gum
• plastic cutlery
• overhead transparancies

All toner cartridges from photocopiers, printers (including laser, inkjet, and dot-matrix printers), and fax machines can be reused or recycled. Simply put them in one of the Ricoh toner cartridge collection boxes (any brand accepted, not just Ricoh). Your department's collection box is usually in the resource room and/or computer technician area.

To request a toner recycling box or if you have a full box to be emptied, please make a Beims web-request to the Warehouse.

Dovedale site only: put by your department’s out-going mail box or drop off to Facilities Management office.

Place all dead batteries in your departmental batteries collection box and contact Cleaning Services (extn 6481) when it is full.

Dovedale site only: put in your department’s out-going mail box or, for larger amounts, request a batteries-collection box for your area or drop off to Facilities Management office.

We have two early childhood centres on campus that appreciate receiving bits and pieces for young children to use. Examples of creative items include: coloured paper or cardboard, sellotape reels, tubes, bubble wrap, clean containers, clean straws, clean bottle caps, brightly coloured items, and any pencil stubs that you may no longer use but small children could.

Another way of getting rid of your unwanted stuff is to find someone who does want it. Visit the Christchurch Freecycle group >>