Saturday 1 February will be our first recycling day of the year – 10am to noon at Ngaio Union Church, Crofton Road.
Below is a refresher on the items that we collect, and a couple of requests to make the programme more enjoyable for the volunteers:
How to recycle with us
What we take each month includes:
- All plastic lids together – no need to separate into different plastic types – but must be lids or caps only.
- Small plastic items marked with the type 2 recycling symbol, and separated.
- Small plastic items marked with the type 5 recycling symbol, and separated.
- Metal Lids etc –including for eg Crown caps, metal screw tops, sparkling wine wires, metal jar lids, ring-pull caps.
- Household and hearing aid batteries.
- Oral care products and packaging from Colgate (is sent back to Colgate). Does not include electric toothbrush heads).
- Used shaving products – please no safety blades at this stage, they are dangerous.
- Curtains – must be mould free so they can be re-purposed.
- Wool – balls of wool which Crafty Volunteers, can use in their knitting for charity.
- Aluminium coffee pods from Nespresso – these re taken to the Nespresso recycling on Lambton Quay
- Rubber bands from delivered The Posts – which are returned to The Post
Additional Collections
Each month we have one additional collection so plan ahead for these collections for the rest of the year. The February collection will be of other small metal items. To see the complete schedule for 2024, follow this link – Recycling Schedule for 2025: