Recycling Collected at the Kerbside
Hangarua | Recycling Wheelie Bin
✓ Clean aluminium and steel cans
✓ Clean rigid plastics graded 1, 2 & 5
✓ Newspapers and magazines
✓ Flattened cardboard boxes
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Karaehe | Glass Crate
✓Clean glass bottles
✓Clean glass jars
See more about what can and cannot go into the Karaehe | Glass Crate
Para Kai | Food Scraps
Your food scraps, collected weekly will go to Living Earth at Tirohia Energy Park, just outside Paeroa, where it will be processed for composting.
✓ Meat, fish, small bones and cooled fat
✓ Egg shells and soft shells e.g. prawn shells
✓ Bread, pastries, cakes and biscuits
✓ Coffee grounds and tea leaves (not tea bags)
✓ Fruit and vegetable stalks and peels
✓ Rice, grains, cereals and noodles
✓ Leftovers and plate scrapings, spoiled food and dairy products
See more about what can and cannot go into Para Kai | Food Scraps bin
Recycling at Refuse Transfer Stations
The following CLEAN Recyclable materials are accepted at Hauraki District Council refuse transfer stations at Paeroa and Waihī:
✓ Aluminium and steel cans
✓ Paper, newspapers and magazines
✓ Flattened cardboard boxes
✓ Scrap metal
✓ Plastics - rigid plastic grades 1, 2 and 5
✓ Glass bottles and jars
✓ Soft plastics - plastic bags and plastic wrappers
✓ Tetra Pak cartons - juice, milk, other beverage cartons
✓ Car bodies (Clean condition with seat and tyres removed, petrol tank pierced and all other fluids removed)
✓ Car batteries
✓ Household batteries
✓ Tyres (a fee is charged depending on size of tyre)
✓ LPG Bottles (a fee is charged)
✓ Oil
✓ Wire Fencing is accepted as long as the batons and posts are REMOVED.
Contaminated containers like Oil containers, Cling wrap and meat trays will not be accepted.
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Soft Plastics Recycling
Plastic bags and plastic wrapping are soft and cannot go into your recycle bin. Save these up at home and take these to one of our Soft Plastics Recycling Locations.
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Tetra Pak carton recycling
Liquid Paper Board is used in Tetra Pak carton packages for juice, milk and other liquids like custard, gravy, yogurts
Save these up at home and take these to one of our Soft Plastics Recycling Locations.
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