Hauraki District Council | Collection Calendar

When a public holiday occurs the collections for the rest of that week will be 1 day later in most instances, unless otherwise stated or advertised.

Kerbside collections during COVID-19 Alert Level 2

Full kerbside rubbish and recycling collections with yellow Council bags, recycling in wheelie bins and glass in crates, will resume from Monday 18 May.

For the first 2 weeks of fortnightly collections all paper and plastics recycling will continue to go to landfill while the sorting centre in Kopu gets back up and running.

There is a change to the types of plastic we will accept for recycling.

• Only plastic types 1 and 2 will now be collected. It has nothing to do with Covid-19.
• Plastics numbered 1 and 2 can be recycled but there is little to no demand for types 3 to 7 and they are no longer accepted by most global markets.
• Waste sent overseas can end up as someone else’s rubbish, or can end up dumped in the environment, including the oceans. Shipping our waste overseas also incurs a large carbon cost and it can end up being processed in countries with significantly different employment practices to New Zealand – potentially putting those workers at risk handling waste in unsafe conditions.