Make sure only the right stuff goes into your yellow bin. If the wrong stuff goes into the yellow bin, the entire truckload will have to go to landfill.

Some plastic items that would have been recycled will now have to be put in the red kerbside collection bin and sent to landfill.

This is due to a change in the global recycling market, which means Christchurch City Council has had to alter what plastics it can accept for recycling.

The right stuff to recycle

The only items that can go in the yellow bin are:

• Clean plastic bottles and containers numbered 1 are things like soft drink bottles
• Clean plastics bottles and containers numbered 2 are things like milk bottles
• Clean plastic bottles and containers numbered 5 are things like yoghurt and ice cream containers
• Metals: aluminium cans, metal tins (lids in the red bin) or aerosol cans
• Clean glass: clear and coloured glass bottles or jars (lids in the red bin)
• Clean cardboard and paper; newspapers, flattened cardboard boxes