Our September recycling day became a victim of the increase in Wellington’s Covid-19 alert level, but the good news is we are back again this coming Saturday, the first Saturday of the month – 2 October, from 10am to noon. At the Ngaio Union Church, Crofton Road.
It is probably a good time to refresh what this programme is about – the original post on this programme is here – Ngaio Crofton Downs Going Carbon Neutral | Ngaio Crofton Downs Residents Association, with more detail on what can be collected.
We are working with the Sustainability Trust to collect the items below:
- Plastic lids – The Tiny Plastic Factory recycles these – please read the note below about plastic lid recycling.
- Metal Lids – these go to McAuley Metals, and include for eg Crown caps, metal screw tops, sparkling wine wires, metal jar lids, Ring-pull caps.
- Razors etc – The Trust is a drop off point for the Gillette and Terracycle Recycling programme
- Oral care – The Trust is a drop off point for the Colgate and Terraycle Oral Care Recycling programme. Make sure all excess product is removed, and that recycling is dry
- Curtains – The Wellington Curtain Bank upcycles pre-loved curtains for those who need them. Must be mould free.
- Wool – unwanted and untangled balls of wool are sent to Crafty Volunteers, who knit, crochet and sew for charity
Unfortunately, the Trust is now unable to accept pens for recycling as Terracycle are closing that option.
We also need to be more careful about what goes into the plastic lid collection. All items need to be type 2, 4 or 5 because of the recycling process, and unfortunately the amount of contaimination is increasing. The items below can not be recycled – so please make sure all caps are stamped with the numbers 2, 4 or 5.
Plastic lids that can’t be recycled:
– Any other small plastic items e.g. food pouch lids, dip lids, coffee cup lids ❌
– Lids with a thermal seal inside (often looks like a blue or white layer inside the lid) ❌
– Waxy paper inserts (please remove if you can, we can still recycle the lid) ❌
Good news:
We are able to make our monthly collection work with other collections that are already going on in our community. We collect
- Bread bag tags, and
- Dominion Post rubber bands
Which do not go into the Trust, but are passed directly on to local residents who are already collecting these items.
Community Fruit
We are really pleased to be able to support Community Fruit, who rescue backyard fruit, distributing it to those in need, through Kaibosh Food Rescue and local Foodbanks. We can collect glass jars on their behalf, but if you have any to bring in please make sure they are of the size below and resealable. For example – marmite, vegemite or mustard jars all have plastic lids which can’t be sterilised. Baby food jars are a great size but the metal lids don’t reseal unfortunately.
The jars that Community Fruit have found to really hit the mark are those like PICs or Fix & Fogg peanut butter jars (380gm size or smaller), Countdown Signature range, Rose’s jam or marmalade jars (500gm) or Craig’s jam jars (375gm).
Drop them off at our recycling days, and they will get to Community Fruit to support their programme.