Here are some ways to recycle your unwanted or disused items.
Rethink Waste Education Centre
Tairāwhiti Environment Centre 386 Palmerston Road
Ph: (06) 867 4708
Hours: Tuesday - Friday 9am - 3pm
Free recycle drop off for:
| eWaste - see list below | Tetra Pak - see list below | Soft plastics |
| Batteries - household, hearing aid, tool batteries | Aluminum wine bottle caps and foil | Mobile phones |
| Garnier brand - skincare, plastic packaging, tubes and caps | Coffee pods - Nescafe, Nespresso , Moccona l'Or | Toner and ink cartridges |
| Colgate brand - plastic toothbrushes, toothpaste | Fluorescent light bulbs (not LED) | Metal bottle caps |
| Shaving razors - Gillette or any brand, blades, packaging both disposal and non disposable |
A-Z of items to recycle, reuse, upcycle
Purchase Bokashi Zing from the Tairāwhiti Environment Centre.
Appliances
- Refuse transfer stations accept metal appliances
- Whiteware - M E Jukes, 180 Stanley Road - small charge
- Whiteware - Metalco Recyclers 22 Banks Street
When you purchase a new appliance, ask the retailer to take your old appliance
Batteries
Household batteries
- Tairāwhiti Environment Centre, free recycling drop off - any household batteries including hearing aid and tool batteries.
Vehicle battery
- Gisborne Autoelectrics, 159 Carnarvon Street
- Metalco Recyclers 22 Banks Street
- Bensons Auto Electrical, 160 Kahutia Street
Books and magazines
- Hospital, doctors waiting rooms, charitable organisations
- Kindergartens, childcare facilities and Kohanga Reo
- Kerbside recycling collection
- Recycling drop off at Waste Management NZ Ltd, 75 Innes Street
Bricks and concrete
- M E Jukes, Stanley Road - small charge
Building materials
- Trading Post Recyclers, 71 Awapuni Road
- Neil Andrew Timber Recycling, 86 Bloomfield Rd - visit website
Cans
- Kerbside recycling collection - steel and aluminum cans
- Waste Management NZ Ltd recycling depot 75 Innes Street
- Schools and church groups may collect aluminum cans or can tabs as fundraisers
- Metalco Recyclers 22 Banks Street
Car bodies or wrecks
- Metalco Recyclers 22 Banks Street - no charge
- Gisborne Towing Services 71 Awapuni Road - no charge
Cellphones
Mobile phone recycling scheme, Tairawhiti Environment Centre 386 Palmerston Road.
Recycle your old mobile phone and raise funds for Sustainable Coastlines.
The proceeds from the mobile phone recycling scheme helps towards the long-term vision of beautiful beaches and healthy waters.
Regardless of condition, make or model all mobile phones are accepted by the Mobile Phone Recycling Scheme. Phones received are graded, data wiped and sim card removed and destroyed. Drop of in store at:
- Spark, Customhouse Street
- Vodafone, 2 Peel Street
- 2degrees, 201 Gladstone Road
Chemicals
- Farm chemicals - Agrecovery Rural Recycling Programme
- Others - contact us for advice