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Para | Rubbish & PAYT Tags

Rubbish is collected fortnightly. Check the collection day for your area.

Put your bin out by 7:30am on collection day with the bin logo facing the road. Leave about 60cm between bins so the truck can pick them up. Please leave your bin out until sundown to allow time for collection.

To help ensure your bins are collected safely and efficiently, follow our collection guidelines.

Pay As You Throw (PAYT) tag

PAYT tag attached to the landfill bin

We use a Pay As You Throw (PAYT) system for rubbish collection. This means you only pay for the rubbish you generate, helping to encourage waste reduction and increase recycling.

To have your rubbish bin collected, a valid green HDC PAYT tag must be correctly attached to your red-lidded rubbish bin before collection.

What you can put in this bin

Household waste only. Anything that can't be reused, recycled or composted.

✓ Plastics graded 3, 4, 6, 7 or no graded number
✓ Wet wipes, nappies, sanitary and incontinence products
✓ Bags, bin liners, cling film and glad wrap
✓ Glass medicine and perfume bottles, light bulbs, drinking glasses, cookware and broken glass (wrap broken glass in paper)
✓ Clothing and shoes (worn out and unwearable)
✓ Takeaway coffee cups/lids and tea bags
✓ Food wrappings
✓ Small animal waste and cold ash
✓ Small lids (milk bottle and soft drink)
✓ Packaging and polystyrene
✓ Toothbrushes and toothpaste tubes
✓ Toys and remotes - batteries removed
✓ Vapeware
✓ Small stationery items

What you cannot put in this bin

❌ dead animals/pets
❌ hot ash
❌ green waste
❌ electrical waste
❌ medical waste
❌ untreated timber
❌ construction material
❌ white ware
❌ batteries*
❌ paint*
❌ hazardous waste*
❌ TV tubes and computer screens*

*Check our Refuse Transfer Stations for disposal options.

Batteries Don’t throw batteries in your rubbish bin. When compacted, batteries can catch on fire. Take to your local Rubbish Disposal Site (Refuse Transfer Station) in Waihi or Paeroa.

Buying PAYT tags

The tags will be available for $8.00 each (recommended retail price).

  • Purchase from Council services centres in Ngātea, Paeroa and Waihī,
  • Purchase online
  • Purchase from retail outlets (listed below)
  • Bulk orders online for retailers (minimum of 20 tags)

Retail Outlets

The following retail outlets have committed to stocking the PAYT Tags. Their stock will arrive over the next week or two. We'll keep adding stockists as they are confirmed.

Waihī:

  • Daffodil Dairy, 7 Tauranga Road, Waihī
  • FreshChoice Supermarket, 6 Consols Street, Waihī
  • Maybelle Superette, 2 Kensington Street, Waihī
  • New World Supermarket, 35 Kenny Street, Waihī
  • Kenny Street Dairy & Takeaway, 120 Kenny Street, Waihī
  • FreshChoice Waihi, 6 Consols Street, Waihī

Paeroa:

  • Woolworths, 27 Belmont Road, Paeroa
  • Criterion Dairy, 140 Normanby Road, Paeroa
  • Four Square, 104 Normanby Road, Paeroa
  • Paeroa Fruit and Vege
  • Gas Paeroa, 25 Puke Road, Paeroa
  • Super Clearance Store, 100 Normanby Road, Paeroa 3600

Ngātea:

  • Four Square, 25 Orchard West Road, Ngātea
  • Fresh Way, Orchard West Road, Ngātea

Turua:

  • Tūrua Dairy and Takeaways, 469 Hauraki Road, Tūrua

Kaiaua:

  • GAS Kaiaua, 925 East Coast Road, Kaiaua
  • The Pink Shop, 999 East Coast Road, Kaiaua

Whiritoa:

  • Whiritoa General Store & Cafe, 4 Fishermans Bend, Whiritoa

Thames:

  • Pak 'n Save, 100 Mary Street, Thames (remember to ask for the GREEN Pay As You Throw tag for HDC).

Whangamatā:

  • Sunny's, 632 Port Road, Whangamatā (remember to ask for the GREEN Pay As You Throw tag for HDC).

The tag fee covers the total cost of waste destined to landfill including its collection, transportation, disposal costs and government fees (including Government waste levy and emission charges).

PAYT tag small orders - Residential
PAYT tag bulk orders - Retailers

Feed the green PAYT tag through the red bin handle and the black lug next to the handle.

The tag must go through both handles so it tears when emptied – this stops it being reused.

Bins with tags only through one handle will not be collected.

Writing your address on the tag is recommended.

Only green HDC tags are accepted at kerbside.

Bins without a tag or with incorrectly fitted tags will not be emptied.

This PAYT system for rubbish bins means that each household is only paying for the rubbish they generate.

Watch this handy video showing how to fit your PAYT tag securely.

Rubbish Bin (PAYT Tag) Inspections

Our auditors routinely check rubbish bins before collection to ensure they meet the requirements of the Pay As You Throw (PAYT) system.

During an inspection, we check that:

  • A valid green Hauraki District Council PAYT tag is attached.
  • The PAYT tag is fitted correctly and has not been tampered with.
  • The tag passes through both the bin handle and the black lid lug, so it tears when the bin is emptied.
  • Bins without a valid PAYT tag, or with an incorrectly attached or tampered tag, will not be collected.

If you believe your PAYT tag has been stolen or tampered with, or you have concerns about your collection, please contact us so we can investigate.

Privacy

Residents sometimes ask whether bin inspections are covered by the Privacy Act.

Once bins are presented at the kerb for collection, they are part of the kerbside collection service. Council and its authorised contractors may inspect bins for operational purposes, including verifying PAYT compliance, identifying contamination in kerbside recycling bins, improving recycling quality, collecting waste data, and supporting education and service planning.

Any information collected is used only for these purposes and is managed in accordance with Council's privacy obligations.

Pick up a bin lid clip from one of our three service centres.

These clips stop the wind lifting your lid and ripping your tag off. One clip per household is available (they work on both rubbish and recycling bins).

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