Kerbside collections will all be running a day earlier next week (29th March 2021). If your usual collection day is TUESDAY – Next week your day be MONDAY 29th March If your usual collection day is WEDNESDAY – Next week your day will be TUESDAY 30th March If your usual collection day is THURSDAY – […]
We are proud to be able to share a bunch of awesome events coming up over the next few weeks. Saturday 20th March is MAUI DOLPHIN DAY 12-4pm at Papahua Domain. Stalls, food, music, and the famous Recycled Raft Race! We love this wonderful community day out. Our Plastic Free Raglan team will be joining […]
We LOVE home composters, worm farmers and supporters of the food waste collection! Diverting food waste, making good compost and growing great gardens is the BEST way of keeping food waste out of landfill. Xtreme Zero Waste are proud to have been closing the loop on food waste for 3.5 years now, diverting a whopping […]
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 […]