Rubbish Bin | Para

Our rubbish and recycling services include a rubbish bin | para.

Rubbish collection  funded through a pre-paid pay-as-you-throw (PAYT) system. This PAYT system for rubbish bins means that each household is only paying for the rubbish they generate. You can buy tags ($8 in the 2023/2024 Council financial year) from our Council offices or participating local retailers (see the list of retailers at the bottom of the page) and attach them to your rubbish bin each time you put it out.  

What can go into this bin?

✓ Milk & juice cartons

✓ Plastic bottles & containers numbered 3, 4, 6 & 7

✓ Small lids, caps, pumps & spray triggers

✓ Nappies & sanitary items

✓ Takeaway coffee cups

✓ Wet wipes

✓ Polystyrene

✓ Broken glass, wrapped

What can't go into this bin?

✖ Batteries

✖ Recyclables

✖ Electronic devices

✖ Fluorescent tubes

✖ Hazardous items

✖ Food waste

✖ Building materials

✖ Large household items

✖ Paint

When is the rubbish bin | para collected?

The rubbish bin | para is collected fortnightly. 

Find out your collection schedule here. 

How is it paid for?

Rubbish collection is funded through a pre-paid pay-as-you-throw (PAYT) system. This PAYT system for rubbish bins means that each household is only paying for the rubbish they generate. You will need to buy pre-paid tags ($8 in the 2023/2024 Council financial year) from participating local retailers (below) and attach them to your rubbish bin each time you put it out. Please note that the Pay As You Throw tags do not have an expiry date - so you don't need to worry about them becoming out of date.

Where to buy PAYT tags

$8 PAYT tags for your rubbish wheelie bin collections are available at our Council offices in Coromandel Town, Whitianga, Whangamatā and Thames. For contact details, please check here.

In addition, they are being sold at the following retailers:

• Cooks Beach: Cooks Beach General Store
• Coromandel Town: Coromandel Four Square, Coromandel Super Saver & Lotto, BP Coromandel
• Hāhei: Hāhei General Store
• Matarangi:Matarangi General Store
• Pāuanui: Pāuanui Information Centre, Gas Pāuanui, Pāuanui Supervalue
• Tairua: Tairua Four Square, Taurua Superette, Tairua Information Centre
• Te Puru: Te Puru Store and Takeaways
• Thames: Four Square Martina, Read Bros Hardware, Thames Four Square Discount, Thames PAK'nSAVE
• Whangamatā: Achilles Store Whangamatā, Slipper Superette, Sunnys of Whangamatā, Whangamatā New World
• Whangapoua: Whangapoua Store
• Whitianga: Countdown Whitianga, Mercury Bay Foodmarket, New World Whitianga, The Glasshouse Emporium, Four Square Buffalo Beach

Please note, there may be other retailers not on our registered retailer list that are selling tags. Those retailers would have purchased these tags from this list of registered retailers. We do not have a list of those locations.