New Household Reuse and Recycling Centres
Your new Household Reuse and Recycling Centres are now open at the Hokitika Transfer Station (The Magpies Nest) and the Franz Josef Transfer Station (The Weka’s Nest). The centres are designed to receive materials such as household items, furniture, cutlery, crockery plants, garden, sporting and agriculture equipment.
We also accept paper, glass, plastic bottles, cans and cardboard for recycling.
Sorting your recycling into different categories before arriving will help speed up your visit.
Sales from reusable items help offset the increased costs of recycling especially handling lightweight materials such as plastics. Items will be offered for sale.
Remember ‘One person’s junk is another person’s treasure’.
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What can I recycle and where?
At all Transfer Stations throughout Westland
- Cardboard and paper: Clean, flattened and dry, no phone books or pulp cardboard like egg cartons.
- Glass: All colours and types can be mixed together, as they are stockpiled for later use.
- Plastic: Types 1-5 (look on the bottom, number is inside a triangle of recycling arrows), separate clear from green or brown, rinse them, remove the tops.
- Metals: All types accepted. Metal cans must be rinsed out.
- Cars and whiteware are not free and must meet certain requirements. Please ask the attendant.
- Aluminium cans: Rinsed and crushed
Recycling is collected free of charge at all transfer stations and recycling collection points throughout Westland.
Separate out recyclable materials from your waste and cut down the amount upon which you have to pay refuse fees.
Contact the Waste Management and Resources Officer or telephone (03) 756 9010 for further information.
Location http://www.westland.govt.nz/index.cfm/1,428,0,0,html
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