The government is standardising what can be recycled at the kerbside across New Zealand, to help make recycling consistent and reduce unnecessary waste going to landfill.
Tauranga City Council's kerbside service is already well established here in Tauranga.
There are only small changes will need to make. These are: you will no longer be able to put any lids (including lids on ice cream containers), plastic caps, or aerosol cans in your yellow-lidded kerbside bin.
Easy recycling. Photo supplied.
Instead, these items should be placed in your red-lidded general rubbish bin, says a statement from Tauranga City Council.
"Washed plastic containers, trays and bottles numbered 1, 2 and 5, clean paper and cardboard, and tins and cans can still go in your yellow-lidded bin.
"There are no changes to our kerbside glass recycling collection."
A full list of what can also be recycled free of charge at Te Maunga Transfer Station, along with kerbside recycling tips and tricks, can be found on our website: https://www.tauranga.govt.nz/living/rubbish-and-recycling/recycling/what-can-be-recycled
2 comments
No Need To Wash Stuff
Posted on 03-02-2024 08:54 | By Yadick
The instructions printed clearly on the bins is to RINSE.
There's a big difference between rinse and wash. You don't wash your dishes before putting them in the dishwasher, you only rinse them.
Clean green nz???
Posted on 05-02-2024 05:53 | By M. Mouse
So it is impossible to collect all the plastic lids mulch them up make granules of them and reuse them for new plastic injection moulding?
A bit of a joke that we can not recycle plastic
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