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. 

 

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)