Recycling Schemes in Waitaki
TOCK wanted you to know about some cool recycling schemes happening in Waitaki:
BATTERIES – Batteries recycling schemes in Waitaki:
Loose batteries can be put in a drop-off box at:
Waitaki Resource Recovery Centre
Palmerston Recycling Centre
SOFT PLASTIC
GREAT NEWS – The Love NZ Soft Plastic Recycling Scheme is available in several drop off spots in the Waitaki District
Soft plastic – including bread bags, frozen food bags, toilet paper packaging, confectionery and biscuit wrap, chip bags, pasta and rice bags, courier envelopes, shopping bags, sanitary hygiene packaging – basically anything made of plastic which can be scrunched into a ball Instead of putting these in the red bin gather them together and drop off at the following drop off points:
The Warehouse Oamaru
Woolworths Supermarket Oamaru
Waitaki Resource Recovery Centre
Palmerston Recycling Centre
Note this scheme does not take plastic slices/ biscuit containers etc. only plastic wrappers/bags that you can scrunch into a ball and it does not bounce back.
The plastic is then collected and sent to the North Island where Future Post and Second Life Plastics make it into new items such as fence posts, buckets and ducting.
REMEMBER – All bags must be clean and dry.
POLYSTRENE
Did you know that households can now drop off their polystyrene waste to be recycled?
Drop off points are now available at
Waitaki Resource Recovery Park
Palmerston Recycling Centre
Clean polystyrene only – no dirt, food waste or residue, no stickers or tape.
CHILDREN’S CLOTHING
Globally a rubbish truck load of clothing ends up in landfill or is incinerated every second of every day.
So if you have unused clean clothing please donate to such places as:
Second Hand / Charity shops across the district
Waitaki Resource Recovery Park
Palmerston Recycling Centre
Hampden Resource Recovery Park
TERRACYCLE
Terracycle offers free recycling programmes funded by brands, manufacturers, and retailers around the world to help you collect and recycle your hard-to-recycle waste such as toothpaste tubes, razor blade packing, writing accessories, coffee capsules…. Choose the programmes you’d like to join; start collecting in your home, school, or office; download free shipping labels; and send them your waste to be recycled. You can even earn rewards for your school or favourite non-profit!
Drop off points can also be found at:
Waitaki Resource Recovery Park
Palmerston Recycling Centre
UNWANTED MOBILE PHONES
There are 400 locations across the country where you can drop off unwanted mobile phones for recycling with RE:MOBILE. – The following are just some of the main centres in the Waitaki District:
Spark Store – Oamaru
Noel Leeming Store- Oamaru
Resene Colour Shop – Oamaru
One NZ Store – Oamaru
BOOKS
You can generally take any unneeded books in reasonable condition to one of the second-hand book shops, general second hand stores in the district aswell as:
Waitaki Resource Recovery Park in Oamaru
Palmerston Recycling Centre / Reuse Shop
Hampden Resource Recovery Park / Top Tip Shop PLUS look out for requests for donated books for Book fairs organised by various Scout Groups and Schools as a fundraising event.
ELECTRONICS
Check out the following who take a range of electronics for recycling :
Waitaki Resource Recovery Park
Palmerston Recycling Centre
PLANT POTS
Clean your used plant pots labelled with the Number 5 recycling symbol. Take them to your local Mitre 10 store and place in their special pot recycling bins to be made into new plant pots.
Plant pots can also be recycled at:
Waitaki Resource Recovery Park
LIGHT BULBS
All used and unbroken household lightbulbs can be recycled through your local Mitre 10 stores. Simply drop off your old bulbs in their lightbulb recycling box. They will send them to Interwaste who will dismantle them. Upto 100% of the lightbulbs are broken down to be used again as raw material for other products.
COMMUNITY RECYCLING COLLECTION HUBS
Waitaki Resource Recovery Park
Standard clean and dry recycling items (with any lids removed):
Glass bottles and jars
Plastics 1, 2 and 5
Steel and Aluminium cans
Flattened Cardboard and Paper
Waitaki Resource Recovery Park is also a drop off point for:
Batteries
Soft Plastics
Electronics
Polystrene
Tetra Paks (Juice and Milk Liquid Paper Cartons)
Printer cartridges
Foam
Fluorescent tubes
Low energy light bulbs
Plastic lids
In addition the resource park operates a number of terracycle recycling schemes for products such as:
Colgate Oral Care tubes and plastic bottles/packaging
Nescafe Dolce Gusto Coffee capsules
Schwarzkopf Hair Aerosols
Alt and Vapo products
Gillette razors
Garnier packaging
Fairy packaging
L’OR, Moccona, Illy & Jed’s capsules…
PLUS good quality household items for their re-use shop.
Palmerston Recycling Centre
Standard clean and dry recycling items (with any lids removed):
Glass bottles and jars
Plastics 1, 2 and 5
Steel and Aluminium cans
Flattened Cardboard and Paper
Palmerston Recycling Centre is also a drop off point for:
Batteries
Soft Plastics
Electronics
Polystrene
Tetra Paks (Juice and Milk Liquid Paper Cartons)
Printer cartridges
Plastic and metal lids
In addition the recycling centre operates a number of terracycle recycling schemes for products such as:
Colgate Oral Care tubes and plastic bottles/packaging
Schwarzkopf Hair Aerosols
Alt and Vapo products
Gillette razors
Garnier packaging
Fairy packaging
L’OR, Moccona, Illy & Jed’s capsules….
PLUS good quality household items for their re-use shop.
You can also take the following standard clean and dry recycling items (without lids):
Glass bottles and jars
Plastics 1, 2 and 5
Steel and Aluminium cans
Flattened Cardboard
To several other resource recovery centres in the Waitiaki district:
Hampden Resource Recovery Park
Kurow Resource Recovery Park
Omarama Resource Recovery Park
Otematata Resource Recovery Park