Where can I take my excess waste?

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WHAT HAPPENS TO IT?

Batteries from toys, cars, scooters, vapes, vacuum cleaners and appliances 

Stripped for metal and any liquid is sustainably disposed of.

Clean whiteware such as dryers, washing machines, fridges and freezers 

Stripped for metal and parts.

E-waste including TVs, computer monitors, hard drives, DVD players, toasters, etc.

Collected by Computer Recycling and sorted into two categories: reuse or recycle. Technicians refurbish and re-market what can be salvaged and anything not able to be refurbished is dismantled for parts.

Clean recycling such as plastics labelled 1, 2 and 5, aluminium, tin, paper and cardboard

Sent for sorting and recycled into different products. Only plastics with a number 1, 2 and 5 are recyclable in New Zealand.

Plastic bottle top lids 

Sent to a repurposing plant and made into new products. 

Metal lids from jars and wine and beer bottles 

Melted and repurposed.

Household hazardous waste such as paint, drain or oven cleaner, oil, pesticides and pool cleaners 

Disposed of safely and sustainably. Please do not place these items into the rubbish and never pour them down the drain.

Items in good working order can be dropped off at the Habitat for Humanity Re-use Store onsite.

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WHAT HAPPENS TO IT?

Household waste

Concrete 

Processed in a concrete crusher and recycled into drainage and roading material, and builders mix.

Cleanfill (soil etc.) 

Used for fill on construction sites.

Timber 

Sent to a facility in Auckland where nails, screws and other metals are separated. Timber is then sorted and fed into a large processing machine called The Beast. The Beast turns scrap timber (400,000kg an hour) into wood chips and is also used by a cement company as biofuel.

Green Waste 

Sent to Hampton Downs Landfill, where it is added to kerbside food scraps and broken down in the composting facility into compost.

The fees for some building waste is reduced to support the separation and reuse of some of these materials, such as green waste, treated and untreated wood, concrete and cleanfill (soil).