Rubbish Disposal Sites
Rubbish and recycling at disposal sites
- Only cleaned rigid plastics 1, 2 & 5, paper, cardboard, aluminium cans and tin cans can be recycled. Plastics 3,4,6,7 must go in rubbish bags.
- Green waste can be accepted.
- Glass - all glass goes into the glass bottle bank.
- Batteries - tape over the battery terminals and give to our attendants to recycle.
- Soft plastics - plastic bags and plastic wrappers.
- Tetra Pak cartons - juice, milk, other beverage cartons
Greenwaste
Unwanted plant material from gardens is called greenwaste. Some plant material is not accepted at our refuse transfer stations as greenwaste and is listed below.
- Stringy plants, noxious plants or weeds, and oversize branches (greater than 150mm diameter) cannot be accepted at the reduced green waste disposal rate.
Examples of these plants include - ponga trees, agapanthus, flax, bamboo, ginger plant, gorse cuttings, box thorn, cabbage trees, yucca, ragwort, noxious weeds or anything similar to these. - Green waste containing contaminates such as stones, concrete, plastic, weed matting, ornamental bark is also not accepted.
Any rejected green waste is charged at General waste rates and unloaded into General waste areas.
Hazardous Waste
Items such as herbicides, pesticides, solvents and varnish are accepted at transfer stations in domestic quantities only, e.g. 20 litres of liquid or less, 5kg of powder or less. Commercial volumes are not accepted. There is no charge for domestic quantities.
To dispose of unwanted agrichemicals, including the recycling of agrichemcial containers see our page on Agricovery.
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