Bins & kerbside collection in Christchurch
41,204 reports sit in the council’s published record under 2 related headings: filed by residents through Snap Send Solve since 2015. The busiest year was 2021 with 8,067; Christchurch Central City tops the recent record.
Kerbside wheelie-bin and recycling collection problems, missed collections, damaged bins and the like.
Report yours the way every one of these was filed, Snap Send Solve (snapsendsolve.com).
Reports per year
2026 was still in progress when this page was drawn and is left off.
The latest on file
Rubbish and Bins - General, 58 Colman Ave · 
Rubbish and Bins - General, 29 Waiau St · 
Rubbish and Bins - General, 43 Bass St · 
Rubbish and Bins - General, 24 Bateman Ave · 
Rubbish and Bins - General, 3 Rossall St · 
Rubbish and Bins - General, 15 Bernard St · 
Rubbish and Bins - General, 14 Short St · 
Rubbish and Bins - General, 47 St Andrews Hill Rd ·
Other problems on the record
The record behind this
Every report above was filed by a resident through the council’s reporting channel and sits in Christchurch City Council’s public reports layer, which this page reads directly. A report is somebody’s word that the problem was there: counts here describe reporting, not verified inspections or fixes, and a closed job does not come off the record.
The live stream of everything reported is at /problems, the pins are on the map, and the whole-city shape is at /trends. This page as markdown: /problems/bins-recycling.md.
Questions, answered briefly
41,204 in the council’s published record, filed by residents since 2015, the busiest year was 2021 with 8,067; 2,080 in the year to 14 October 2026.
Christchurch Central City tops the recent record, read from each report’s own address text, so it is the reporting pattern, not a claim the problem is worst there.
Through the council’s reporting channel, the same channel every report on this page came through (Snap Send Solve). Each report is somebody’s word the problem was there.
Christchurch City Council’s public reports layer, resident-filed reports under the heading this page counts. Counts describe reporting, not verified inspections or fixes.