Refuse Transfer Stations

 Our Refuse Transfer Stations don't take cash for payment, but welcome Eftpos, debit and credit cards. The move to going cashless is helping us streamline our service and keep our team members and customers safe. 

Transfer Station Regular Hours and Locations

Extended summer operating hours for our seven transfer stations have now finished. We are now operating to our non-summer hours.

Click here(PDF, 51KB) to download the non-summer 2023 Refuse Transfer Station hours or check the tables below.

Coromandel Town

525 Hauraki Road, Coromandel Town

Phone: 07 866 7616

Note: From 13-26 March we have arranged with our contractor to extend the operating hours of the Coromandel Town Refuse Transfer Station (RTS) due to roading damage, should customers wish to take the material to the RTS in this period. The Coromandel RTS will be open daily for the next fortnight from Monday to Friday 9.30am to 3pm, and Saturday and Sunday will be usual operating hours 9.30am – 4pm.

Monday
CLOSED
Tuesday CLOSED
Wednesday 9:30am - 3pm
Thursday CLOSED
Friday 9:30am - 3pm
Saturday 9:30am - 4pm
Sunday 9:30am - 4pm
Public Holidays 9:30am - 4pm

Matarangi

24/7 drop-off facility for pre-paid Council rubbish bags and recyclables

Phone: 07 866 5427 

Monday 1:30pm - 5:30pm
Tuesday CLOSED
Wednesday CLOSED
Thursday 1:30pm - 5:30pm
Friday CLOSED
Saturday 10:00am - 5:30pm
Sunday 10:00am - 5:30pm
Public Holidays 10:00am - 5:30pm

Pauanui

24/7 drop-off facility for pre-paid Council rubbish bags and recyclables

887 Hikuai Settlement Road, Pāuanui

Phone: 07 864 7949 

Monday CLOSED
Tuesday 1:30pm - 5:30pm
Wednesday CLOSED
Thursday CLOSED
Friday 1:30pm - 5:30pm
Saturday 10:00am - 5:30pm
Sunday 10:00am - 5:30pm
Public Holidays 10:00am - 5:30pm

Tairua

24/7 drop-off facility for pre-paid Council rubbish bags and recyclables

3 Red Bridge Road, Tairua

Phone: 07 864 7639

Monday 9am - 4pm
Tuesday 9am - 4pm
Wednesday 9am - 4pm
Thursday 9am - 4pm
Friday 9am - 4pm
Saturday 10:00am - 5:30pm
Sunday 10:00am - 5:30pm
Public Holidays 10:00am - 5:30pm

Thames

102 Burke Street, Thames

Phone: 07 868 9637

Monday 8:30am - 2:30pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 2:30pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 2:30pm
Thursday 8:30am - 2:30pm
Friday 8:30am - 2:30pm
Saturday 10:30am - 5:30pm
Sunday 10:30am - 5:30pm
Public Holidays 10:30am - 5:30pm

Whangamatā

Whangamatā - 24/7 drop-off facility for pre-paid Council rubbish bags and recyclables

The site will be open from 8.30am to 5.30pm over the six-day Beach Hop festival period from Wednesday 22 March to Monday 27 March because of the cancellation of Kerbside recycling collections over the last two weeks of March. Find out more about this service change on our Kerbside page.

2755 SH25 Waihi-Whangamatā, Whangamatā

Phone: 07 865 9723

Monday 8:30am - 2:30pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 2:30pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 2:30pm
Thursday 8:30am - 2:30pm
Friday 8:30am - 2:30pm
Saturday 10:30am - 5:30pm
Sunday 10:30am - 5:30pm
Public Holidays 10:30am - 5:30pm

Whitianga

237 South Highway, Whitianga

Phone: 07 866 2954

Monday 8:30am - 2:30pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 2:30pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 2:30pm
Thursday 8:30am - 2:30pm
Friday 8:30am - 2:30pm
Saturday 10:30am - 5:30pm
Sunday 10:30am - 5:30pm
Public Holidays 10:30am - 5:30pm

 

The following household Rubbish and Recycling materials are accepted at your local RTS

General Rubbish

  • No cost for rubbish in Council pre-paid blue bags
  • Please refer to Fees & charges for general waste charges

Recycling (clean)

  • Plastics containers 1, 2 & 5 (lids removed)
  • Paper and cardboard
  • Aluminium cans and tin cans
  • Glass Bottles and Jars (lids removed)
  • Soft plastics (clean)
  • Domestic volumes of soft plastics recycling is available at Whangamata, Whitianga, Thames and Tairua RTS sites. 

Green waste (unwanted plant material from gardens)

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 materials (in household quantities; e.g. 20 litres of liquid or less, 5kg of powder or less)

Please hand these items in at the RTS for appropriate disposal - do not place them in the general rubbish pit.

  • Aerosol Cans
  • Car Batteries
  • Dry Cell Batteries
  • Fire Extinguishers
  • Fluorescent Tubes/Energy Saving Bulbs
  • Used Engine oils
  • LPG bottles
  • Old Flares/EPIRBs
  • Hazardous/chemical waste in domestic quantities, garden pesticides etc.
  • Paint

Materials not accepted at your local RTS

  • Clean fill, hard fill, trees, stumps etc.
  • Offal, dead stock / large animals
  • Bulk liquids
  • Radioactive wastes
  • Explosives
  • PCB wastes
  • Asbestos or products containing asbestos
  • Fuel, more than 2 litres
  • All timber lengths of 1.2 metres and over will not be accepted
  • E-waste such as old computers, tablets and mobile phones. (The Seagull Centre in Thames will take these for a koha to help cover the cost of recycling them)

Fees and Charges

Fees and Charges

All fees and charges are inclusive of GST.

Transfer Station
(Solid Waste Fees)
Units 2022/2023
Where no weighbridge available:
Un-compacted waste Per cubic metre $85.00
Compacted waste Per cubic metre $247.00
Green waste Per cubic metre $59.00
Where weighbridge available:
Waste Per tonne $260.00
Green waste Per tonne $164.00
Unofficial refuse bags Per bag $5.00
Small carrier bag of rubbish Per bag $2.00
Designated recyclables Per cubic metre No charge
Tyres car - without rim* Per tyre $7.50
Tyres car - with rim* Per tyre $12.50
Tyres 4X4 - without rim* Per tyre $17.50
Tyres 4X4 - with rim* Per tyre $22.50
Tyres truck - without rim* Per tyre $20.00
Tyres truck - with rim* Per tyre $25.00
Tyres tractor* Per tyre $60.00
LPG bottles Per bottle $6.50
Car bodies - stripped** Per car $25.00
Car bodies - unstripped Per car $75.00
Whiteware Per item $10.00
*Tyres should be left whole, not cut. We can no longer accept cut tyres as the landfill no longer takes them.
**Stripped car body means windows, seats and fuel tanks are removed.

A note about Green Waste:

Our Refuse Transfer Stations do not accept fibrous plants such as flax, cabbage trees, bamboo and similar plants, as green waste. Instead, these are considered general waste and are charged as such to dispose of.