WasteNet is the Councils' shared service that works to reduce waste to landfill and encourage the uptake of actions to improve use of resources.
In honour of ANZAC Day, Wednesday April 25, there will be no recycling and rubbish collection in the region. Please click here for more information.
Every year the average NZ family throws away up to $560 worth of food and drink. This is made up of things like peelings, cores and bones, but the majority is, or once was, perfectly good food.
Light bulbs are a great invention that help us see in the dark. And they have the uncanny knack of 'blowing' when you least want them to. So what do we do with our blown light bulbs?
The yellow recycling bin is for the disposal of clean recyclables.
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Recycle your empty aerosol cans in the yellow recycling bin or local recycle centre