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NPDC is working towards Zero Waste going to landfill from our district. bins

Our kerbside collection service operates on a fortnightly system for landfill, Check the sticker Your bins are glass and mixed recyclables and a weekly pick up for food waste. on the side of your collected on bins for your different weeks. Each of your bins have different tastes and pick-up schedules, as pictured collection day. below. For your bins’ schedule, download the NPDC Recycling and Rubbish app, 007 which can give you weekly reminders Bond Street on which bins to put out. Or use the Tue Recycling and Rubbish Day Search at newplymouthnz.com where you can also download a collection calendar. 2019/20

Place your bins and crate YOUR BIN COLLECTIONat the kerbside CALENDAR by 7am. Landfill Glass Your food scraps binRecycling is Your glass crate and landfill bin are collectedFood Scraps from the kerbside collected together every two weeks, then every week. your recycling bin goesJANUARY out 2020 the next week. Your Food Scraps bin will be collected weekly from 30th September 2019. F S Food Scraps Recycling Glass Landfill W T Recycling, Glass and Landﬁ ll bins will be collectedDECEMBER on the 2019 weeks shownS M below.T F S 2 3 4 Para Kai Hangarua Karaehe + Ruapara T W T 1 Check the sticker on your NOVEMBERbins for your 2019 street’sS collectionM day. 11 F S 5 6 7 8 9 10 T W RecyclingT Week3 4 6 7 OCTOBER 2019 S M 1 2 14 5 17 18 F S 1 2 11 12 13 14 15 16 T W T 9 10 12 13 25 Collected every Collected every Collected together every S M 8 9 8 19 20 21 22 23 24 3 4 5 6 7 16 17 18 19 20 21 30 1 2 3 4 5 16 15 27 28 29 30 31 week two weeks two weeks 10 11 12 13 14 15 24 25 26 26 27 28 7 8 9 10 11 12 23 22 23 (alternate to glass 6 17 18 19 20 21 22 31 15 16 17 18 19 29 30 MAY 2020 13 14 26 28 29 30 F S 23 24 25 26 27 W T and landfill) 21 22 24 25 APRIL 2020 S M T 20 31 F S 1 2 28 29 30 T W T 27 MARCH 2020 S M + 8 9 F S 2 3 4 6 7 T W T 1 4 5 FEBRUARY 2020 S M 11 3 15 16 F S 5 6 7 8 9 10 12 13 14 T W T 2 3 4 5 6 7 18 10 11 22 23 S M 1 1 12 13 14 15 16 17 19 20 21 9 10 11 12 13 14 25 17 18 29 30 7 8 8 19 20 21 22 23 24 26 27 28 4 5 6 16 17 18 19 20 21 24 25 2 3 14 15 15 26 27 28 29 30 Glass 11and 12 Landfill13 Week23 24 25 26 27 28 31 9 10 21 22 22 19 20 30 31 16 17 18 29 29 SEPTEMBER 2020F S 27 28 T W T 24 25 26 AUGUST 2020 S M 23 F S 3 4 5 T W T 1 2 JULY 2020 S M 12 F S 1 9 10 11 T W T 7 8 JUNE 2020 S M 8 6 18 19 F S 2 3 4 5 6 7 15 16 17 T W T 1 2 3 4 15 13 14 25 26 S M 5 6 9 10 11 12 13 14 22 23 24 2 3 4 +6 7 8 9 10+ 11 22 20 21 1 12 13 5 16 17 18 19 20 21 29 30 9 10 11 13 14 15 16 17 18 29 27 28 7 8 19 20 12 23 24 25 26 27 28 16 17 18 20 21 22 23 24 25 14 15 26 27 19 30 31 23 24 25 27 28 29 30 31 21 22 26 28 29 30 NPDC Rubbish and Recycling Download the app for weekly prompts: www.newplymouthnz.com/newbins Nice to Para Kai meet you! Karaehe Food Scraps Glass Please feed your food scraps bin only:

Please feed your glass bin only clean glass with no lids:

Bones Food scraps Kitchen paper towels Bones from meat and fish, Fruit, vegetables, meat, bread, dairy and cooked meat scraps, cooled fats food. These can be wrapped in newspaper.

Glass bottles Glass jars

Green scraps Drink scraps Shells Indoor cut flowers Coffee grounds, tea leaves and paper tea bags Egg shells and seafood shells

Don’t feed your food scraps bin: Don’t feed your glass recycling bin:

Plastic or Plastic-lined Compostable Compostable Pet waste Window glass Broken glass Light bulbs compostable coffee cups or food or drink packaging Building reuse shop Wrap broken items well in Wrap well in newspaper or bags food containers containers (unbroken), or wrapped newspaper or plastic packaging to plastic packaging to protect for the landfill bin (broken) protect our waste collectors, and our waste collectors, and place Other composting options: place in the landfill bin in the landfill bin.

Other re-use or recycling options:

Tissues, serviettes Liquids Grass clippings and green waste Home compost or landfill bin Home compost, transfer station or commercial green waste collection Television or Liquids Food Drinking glasses Pyrex or other computer screens Empty and rinse Empty and rinse jars (unbroken) glass cookware If you compost at home, keep it up! Composting is a great way to process green waste e-waste recycling at New bottles first, then of all food items, Second-hand Second-hand and compostable items than can’t be accepted in your food scraps bin. Items placed Plymouth Transfer Station recycle then recycle shop shop down a sink disposal unit go to the landfill, so it’s best to use your food scraps bin. Hangarua Recycling Don’t feed your recycling bin:

Please feed your recycling bin only these empty Plastics that have Coffee cups Plastic bags Drink cartons and clean recyclable items, with no lids: the number and lids 3, 4, 6 or 7

Paper and cardboard Egg cartons Plastic containers with Polystyrene Soft plastic Lids Nappies a number 1, 2 or 5 in a packaging and film triangle

Other re-use, recycling or composting options:

Milk bottles Soft drink bottles Cleaning bottles (do not squash) (remove trigger)

Dirty recycling Electrical items Food scraps Clothes, toys Clean and recycle, or Second-hand shop (working items), Food scraps bin or and shoes landfill bin e-waste recycling at New Plymouth home compost Second-hand shop Transfer Station (good condition)

Tin cans Aluminium cans Empty aerosol (labels can stay on) cans (remove cap)

Packaging made of Garden waste Pots and pans Medical waste more than one material Home compost, transfer Second-hand shop or Discuss options with Separate them first. Plastic station, or commercial scrap metal recycling your local pharmacy to landfill bin, cardboard to collection recycling I’m a light and Ruapara fussy eater - you don’t need Don’t feed your landfill bin: Landfill to f ill me up!

To work towards Zero Waste, please feed your landfill bin only these loose items: Lithium batteries Medical waste and needles Garden or Take to the New Plymouth Discuss options with your local green waste Transfer Station pharmacy Home compost, transfer station or commercial collection

Nappies, pet Plastic bags and soft Plastics without a Plastics that have waste and hygiene plastic wrapping/ recycling triangle the number products packaging symbol 3, 4, 6 or 7

Hazardous waste Paints, solvents and Hot ash or chemicals chemical containers Cool, and then compost at Take to New Plymouth Take to New Plymouth home or wrap in landfill bin Transfer Station Transfer Station

Drink cartons Expanded polystyrene All lids Non-compostable plants or noxious weeds such as Tradescantia/wandering willy or wild ginger, but no other green waste

Coffee cups Broken glass Reusable items Electronics or Liquids Please wrap in newspaper and lids Take quality items to a electrical appliances second-hand shop e-waste recycling at the New Plymouth Transfer Station, or scrap metal collectors Caring for your bins Preparing items for your recycling bins

Wash your bins and crate regularly to keep them clean. A lid latch To make sure recyclables get recycled (and won’t have to go to the for your landfill and/or recycling bin is available to keep items from landfill), follow these easy steps: spilling out. Pick one up from any of our service centres or the NPDC Civic Centre on Liardet Street for free. Empty and rinse out all your Leave items loose and unbagged. containers to remove liquids and Stacked recyclables cannot be food scraps. Dirty containers will separated and plastic bags clog up Bins belong to the property so please leave them if you move. go to the landfill. our sorting machinery.

Remove lids and place them in the Leave plastic bottles unsquashed so landfill bin. Labels can stay on. that our machinery can sort them.

How to position your bin 1m family on collection day

When you put your food scraps out for collection, make sure 30cm you lock the bin lid closed by putting the Flatten cardboard to make more space handle up. in your recycling bin.

Place the front of each bin so 30cm that it faces the street, with wheelie bin handles away from the street.

Leave your bins as close as you can to the 3m Remember: our recycling bins thrive on a diet of clean, lidless items kerb, but avoid blocking the footpath or 1m space above the bins without any plastic bags to get stuck in their throats, so thanks for any entrances. prepping items correctly! What happens once Other items my bins are emptied? Check what can and can’t be recycled in our Recycling Search at newplymouthnz.com/Recycling. Learn more about reuse and recycling options for different products in the Zero Waste Directory at zerowastetaranaki.org.nz. Food Scraps These are taken to a commercial composting facility where they get turned into compost for gardens, putting nutrients back into the soil. Green waste Compostable garden waste should not be placed in your landfill bin. Keeping food scraps out of the landfill helps to lower the volume of Compost green waste at home or drop it at one of our transfer stations for a greenhouse gases that are produced, reducing our contribution to fee, or organise a green waste collection with a commercial collector. climate change. Only non-compostable plants such as flax or agapanthas, or noxious weeds Recycling such as Tradescantia/wandering willy or wild ginger, can be placed in your landfill bin. These get hand-sorted by people working at conveyor belts at our material recovery facility on Colson Road, then compressed into bales and transported to a recycling processor for turning into paper, boxes, tins, cans, containers and other plastic products. Have too much By recycling you help save energy, greenhouse gas emissions, water and the use of new resources. recycling for your bins? Glass Transfer stations take recyclables for free, and green waste and Glass bottles and jars are sorted by colour by collectors at the landfill waste for a fee. kerbside and stored in three separate sections in our glass recycling trucks. New Plymouth Waitara Inglewood Okato Transfer Tongaporutu Transfer Station Transfer Station Transfer Station Station Transfer Station

Keeping glass separate from mixed recycling avoids the risk of broken 76 Colson Road, 33 Norman Street, 277 King Road, 186 Hampton 110 Hutiwai glass fragments on other recyclables, which means we can recycle New Plymouth Waitara Inglewood Road, Ōkato Road, more. Glass is infinitely recyclable, making new bottles and jars. Tongapōrutu Open daily Open Open Open Open Landfill 8am - 4.30pm Sat noon - 4pm Mon & Thurs Sat, Sun & Tue Sun 1pm - 4pm 9.30am - 11.30am 1pm - 4pm Items placed in your landfill bin get transported to Bonny Glen Sun, Mon, Wed & Landfill near Marton, and buried in the ground. This takes valuable Fri 1pm - 4pm Sat & Sun 1pm - 4pm resources out of our economy and requires new natural resources to make more products. Landfills also need to be managed to minimise Closed Closed all public Closed all public Closed all public Closed all public Christmas Day, holidays holidays holidays holidays effects on the environment, making them expensive to run. Boxing Day, New Year’s Day, Good Please recycle as much as you can and avoid items that aren’t Friday, Easter compostable or recyclable, so that as little as possible has to go to Monday, Anzac Day. the landfill. Look for a sticker that shows that your bin Solving bin issues was too heavy. • Glass crate needs to be a maximum of 12 kg • Food scraps bin a maximum 10 kg • Recycling bin a maximum 70 kg • Landfill bin a maximum 35 kg Why was my bin not collected? • Please keep glass below the top of your crate If your bin isn’t picked up, make sure you: Remove some of the weight and put your bin out on the next collection week for that bin. Put it out before 7am. If you missed the cut-off, put the bin out on its next collection week, on your collection day. If it’s urgent, take the contents to your closest transfer station (free Don’t use bags, boxes or other types for glass and recycling, charges for landfill waste). of containers.

Items can only be picked up in a NPDC bin or Have the right collection week. glass crate. Contact us if you need a replacement bin (charges may apply). Check the NPDC Recycling and Rubbish smartphone app or the Recycling and Rubbish Day Phone or email us if you’re not sure why your bin search on our website at newplymouthnz.com wasn’t collected. (See the back cover for details.)

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We checked your bin today Look for a tag or sticker that shows an Your recycling has been collected but it contained items that cannot be recycled. We do not accept: Is there a backdoor pick-up service if I’m elderly or incorrect item was placed in the bin. have limited mobility? Soft plasti cs such as Glass ( Please put Waxed liquid plasti c cli ng ﬁ lm, plasti c cardboard cartons this in your bags, bubble wrap and e.g. juice or long blue crate) . If so, the sticker tells you what type of item isn’t soft plasti c packaging. life milk. allowed. Remove the incorrect items and put your bin Nappies, sanitary Clothes, shoes, Food scraps, products or toys, furniture, green waste. If you require assistance getting your bins to pet waste. appliances. out on the next collection week for that bin. Other: the kerb, you can apply for a service to pick up

Polystyrene, coﬀ ee Hazardous items or takeaway cups. - batt eries, gas bott les, paint or medical waste. your bins directly from your property, for an annual fee.

Our waste collection contractors are trained to Learn more about the service and required recognise the wrong items placed in recycling and medical evidence on our website, or phone food scraps bins. We also carry out random bin us on 06-759 6060. audits to check the correct items are being recycled and composted. Please feed the correct items to the right bin so your collection service can continue.

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