Kia ora Whāingaroa, during Alert Level 2 we are remaining OPEN. However safety on site is very important for both you and our team, so we ask you to follow our signage, be kind, and respect any instruction or requests from our team. We will be collecting info for contact tracing with a clipboard at […]
During December Visy Glass announced that they were swamped with glass and struggling to keep up with the increase in recycling. For 2 weeks they were not been able to accept clear glass and are struggling with quantities of green glass at the countries only glass furnaces in Penrose. Xtreme will still pick up your […]
We have some big changes for our recycling services Whaingaroa… It’s time the entire country leveled up. Aotearoa is standardizing recycling services right across the motu! Wow that’s big! This means we are joining the rest of our nation and from Tuesday 15th December WE WILL ONLY BE COLLECTING PLASTICS #1 #2 and #5 + […]
LOOK OUT for our community’s NEW pre-paid bags. Technically they’re not new because they’re made from our community’s plastic recycling! We have been working with Convex Innovation in Hamilton and Astron Sustainability in Auckland to turn our collections of clear soft plastics + #2 milk bottles into our kerbside collection landfill bags. These green bags […]
Last year in June, our Waikato District Council opted out of supporting the food waste collection service to continue. We asked for your support and the community delivered.Thanks to everyone for their sharing and donations to our Givealittle campaign. We want to acknowledge the Whaingaroa community and significant donors for paying for this past year alongside […]
Our Organics Yard and greenwaste drop off site will continue to be closed on Monday and Tuesdays (including Labour Weekend Monday). So if you’re clearing out your garden, please make sure you get your greenwaste is brought up to us before 4:30pm Sundays. We will be open again from 12:30pm Wednesdays. For those who have not been in Raglan for a while the procedure for […]
We don’t want any lids littering our environment. We don’t want this reusable, recyclable resource to go to landfill either. Plastic lids are usually thicker than their “plastic container body” and have different chemicals in them to make them sturdy, coloured, and seal tight closed. Which often makes them a different grade than the container […]
Saturday 30th May – Open 10.00am – 5.00pm Sunday 31st May – Open 10.00am – 5.00pm No big loads after 4.30 pm Monday 1st June – CLOSED Tuesday 2nd June – Site Open 12.30pm – 5.00pm (Greenwaste is closed Tuesdays)
Due to a power outage in our area we are unable to open the site today. Apologies for any inconveniences to you and your day. We will be back open tomorrow Thursday 21st May 12.30-5pm.
Nau mai hoki mai, Xtreme Zero Waste site, shop and services are back OPEN from this Thursday 14th May from 12:30pm. 😍 This includes drop offs for greenwaste, cleanfill, landfill and clean ready-for-resale shop items. 😎 Safety on site is very important for both you and our team, so we ask you to follow our […]