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 See more about battery recycling
✓ Tyres - up to 5 free per visit (Clean, dirt-free and rims removed)
✓ 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.
E-waste also now accepted at Refuse Transfer Stations for recycling.
View more information about e-waste.
✓ Computers and Laptops
✓ Mobile phones
✓ Monitors
✓ Printers
✓ Small peripheral devices such as keyboards and mice
✓ Televisions
✓ Video/DVD/CD players
Household appliances (a fee will be charged for degassing where applicable).
✓ Vacuums
✓ Microwaves
✓ electric fans
✓ toasters
✓ refrigerators
✓ freezers
✓ heat pumps
✓ heat pump dryers
See more about Refuse Transfer Stations
