Recycling - Overview

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Recycling helps you save money and protect the environment. It gives valuable resources another life while reducing the waste that goes into landfills.

The Council funds household recycling collection for residents mostly through a levy on each tonne of waste that goes into the landfills.

Put your recycling (and your rubbish) out on the kerb or road edge before 8.00am on the collection day for your area, but not earlier than 7.00pm the evening before.

The Council contracts Enviro Waste to collect the kerbside recycling and take it to Full Circle's sorting and baling plants in Seaview.

Collection in the Suburbs

In the suburbs, recycling is collected weekly - on the same day as your rubbish is collected.

The suburban recycling service differs from the inner city collection. In suburban recycling, wheelie bins or green plastic bags are used for metals, plastic and paper, and 45-litre green recycling crates are used for glass. Please do NOT use clear plastic bags for surburban recycling.

For more information refer to:

Collection in the Inner City

In the central business district, residents' recycling is collected on Tuesdays after 5.30pm. Only clear plastic bags are to be used - not the green glass crates used in the suburban recycling collections.

Residents should sort their recycling into plastic bags and place out on the footpath between 5.30pm and 10.00pm every Tuesday night.

Put paper and cardboard into one clear plastic bag, and glass, tins, cans and plastic into another clear plastic bag.

All recycling materials must be sorted and placed in plastic bags or we won't collect them:

Sorting and Preparing Your Recycling

Extra Bulk Recycling

You can take any extra recycling to the recycling station at the Southern Landfill, Happy Valley or Spicer Landfill, Porirua.

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Waste Exchange

The Council supports the Waste Exchange programme in the Wellington region.

The programme is a free service for businesses and organisations to exchange unwanted materials and recyclables.

Waste Exchange website

Grants & Collections for Schools & Not-for-profit Organisations

The Council has grants available to schools to encourage them to recycle. The Council can also provide a kerbside recycling service to schools, small community centres and not-for-profit organisations.

To receive the grants or the kerbside recycling service, certain criteria have to be met.

For more information, see:

Schools & Not-for-profit Organisations

Businesses

Secure cardboard out for collection.
Secure cardboard out for collection

Businesses in central Wellington can organise recycling collections through private waste collectors.

Albrites provide free cardboard collection in the central business district every Tuesday night. Cardboard must be out by 5.00pm and:

  • be placed out on the curb, away from litter bins
  • not block the footpath
  • be secured so it doesn't blow away in the wind.

Private Waste Collectors

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