Recycling Wheelie Bin

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Basically most paper, cardboard, tin/aluminium, and plastic containers (numbers 1, 2 and 5) can be recycled. If you are not sure check out this more specific list of what can go in the recycling bin:

paper (e.g. newspapers, magazines, envelopes, junk mail)
telephone directories
clean pizza boxes
egg cartons
cardboard (unwaxed)
cereal boxes
food tins/cans (washed)
aluminium cans
empty aerosols
water/soft drink containers
plastic bottles
plastic milk bottles
any plastic containers with recycling logo 1, 2 and 5

Please rinse plastic bottles/cans/containers before putting in your recycle bin - then remove the lids.
All material must be placed inside the recycling bin. Recycling bins are collected once a week.

What I can not put in my recycling bin:

	Object	Alternative
Organic Waste	Food waste	Into home compost or worm farm
	Green waste	Into home compost or use your 240L rubbish bin and utilise STDC's fortnightly green waste service for a small fee
	Wood	If organic, this can be put into your green waste bin. If it has been treated in any way, it needs to go into general waste
General Waste	Household waste	General waste/Landfill wheelie bin
	Waxed Cartons (including milk cartons and yoghurt containers)	General waste/Landfill wheelie bin
	Meat trays	General waste/Landfill wheelie bin
	Garden hose/s	General waste/Landfill wheelie bin
	Glad wrap/cling film	General waste/Landfill wheelie bin
	Rubber	General waste/Landfill wheelie bin
	Used petrol and oil cans	General waste/Landfill wheelie bin
	Disposable nappies	General waste/Landfill wheelie bin
	Broken glass or window glass	General waste/Landfill wheelie bin
	Crockery/Ceramics	General waste/Landfill wheelie bin
	Building materials	General waste/Landfill wheelie bin
Reusable Items	Toys	Take to a charity or op shop
	Clothing	Clothing collections/op shop
E-Waste	Computers or cellphones	Drop cellphones off at a Vodafone or Telecom store. Computers might be able to be taken back to the store where you bought them.
	Electronic equipment	Transfer Stations - there is a charge
	Whiteware	Transfer Stations - there is a charge
	Televisions	Transfer Stations - there is a charge
	Electrical Wires	Eltham Transfer Station
Hazardous waste	Paint or chemicals	Hāwera Transfer Station - free if in domestic quantities 10L or under (please ring Taranaki Regional Council on 765 7127)
	Fluorescent tubes	Hāwera Transfer Station - there is a charge
	Batteries	Hāwera Transfer Station - free. Car batteries can be taken to Repco or Super Cheap Auto

Free Recycling Facilities

Free recycling facilities, open 24 hours a day, are available at Ōpunakē, Eltham, Manaia, Waitotara and Waverley transfer stations. Pātea and Hāwera Transfer Stations also have free recycling however these can only be accessed in working hours. Click here for more information about the Transfer Stations.

For items that cannot be recycled through the Council's materials resource facility (for example plastic lids, polystyrene and soft plastics), there are alternatives provided by local businesses such as Egmont Refuse and Recycling. You can contact Egmont Refuse and Recycling on (06) 278 6170.

Where do the recycling items go?

Once recyclable items are sorted and baled at the Material Recovery Facility on Colson Road, New Plymouth they are generally sent to the following locations:

Aluminium and steel cans are sent overseas for reprocessing into new metal products.
Glass is sent to Auckland for reprocessing into new bottles and jars.
Paper and cardboard are sent to a paper mill in Auckland or Hawke's Bay to make new cardboard products.
PET plastic containers (type 1) are recycled into new food packaging in Lower Hutt.
HDPE (type 2 plastics) and PP (type 5 plastics) are recycled into new products in Manawatū or Auckland.