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Kerbside Collection Days are 4 days per week: Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.
Recycling crates, food scrap containment, and prepaid rubbish bags should be placed on kerbside by 8.00 am.
Use the search bar below by typing in your street name. It will find your kerbside collection day so you can be prepared when it’s your turn. Or use the interactive map below to see your location by day.
Kākāriki zone, collected on Tuesday
All Rangitangi collections are on Wednesday – Māwhero zone.
A complete kerbside collection kit for your whare includes 2 recycling crates, a food scrap bin and kitchen caddy, and if you’re landfilling, using either a blue or green prepaid landfill bag. If you’re building a new home you can get your recycling crates and food scrap containment from the council building / library in town at 7 Bow St. We have 3 trucks that service the kerbside collection and each crew collects different items for their truck. So if you see a truck come by and there’s something left behind, kei te pai!
Use the official green recycling crates only for kerbside recycling. Maximum 2 crates per household, write your address on your crate/s to save them going walking next door, and leave them if moving home.
Every week put your green 20 litre bin on the kerbside with the handle in a locked position. Only use Xtreme Zero Waste starch bags to contain food scraps, no other “eco” bags. Leave a visible note squished under the lid asking for more bags, or pick a pack up from Kāhu’s Nest.
Prepaid blue or green bags can be purchased from local retail outlets. Please put bags out to the kerb away from bushes, or vehicles. Think about the whānau collecting, and keep bags hazard free: wrap broken glass, and dispose of any medical equipment (needles etc) at Raglan Pharmacy. Maximum weight of bags is 15kg.
*Everyone can come on up to our site to drop off any household recycling and prepaid bags, for free.
One of your green crates is for glass jars and bottles with all lids removed. Lids are too small be collected at the kerbside, bring your collection to recycle at our site at the Recycle Wall.
Your second green crate is for plastics #1, #2, #5 and aluminium and tin cans.
Squash your cans before adding to your recycling bin to save space!
Flatten your cardboard, and tie or contain paper in a box so it doesn’t blow away.
Always use our Xtreme cornstarch bags for unavoidable food scraps veggie and fruit scraps, bread, rice, pasta, egg shells, dairy products, bones, meat, rice, coffee grinds and meal left overs.
Wrap broken glass in a thick layer of paper and place it in the middle of your prepaid rubbish bag.
Don’t put broken glass, windows, kitchen pyrex, or drinking glasses (or your reading glasses) in the glass crate. Windows, kitchen pyrex and drinking glasses are a different type to glass jars and bottles and can’t be recycled.
Don’t put recycling out in cardboard boxes, they can get soggy and rip when our whānau grab them.
Don’t forget to raise the handle on your green waste bin when you put it on the kerbside!
Don’t add cooking oil or liquid food, fish, plastic packaging, fruit stickers, cigarette buts, garden waste, tissues, sanitary items or bread tags into your food waste bin.
Don’t fill rubbish bags above their maximum weight of 15kgs.
Do separately collect
These items can’t go into kerbside recycling but can be recycled if dropped off at the Recycle Wall at our site. Set up an icecream tub under your sink or next to your crates where you’ll remember.
If you have any more questions or concerns please get in touch with us and one of the team will get back to you ASAP.
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