Recycling & rubbish » Recycling other materials

These are recycling opportunities in Eastbourne and the Hutt / region, with the potential for more: (♥  marks local services)

Recycling – now

• Online
  • ♥ Facebook – Eastbourne Community Noticeboard and Eastbourne Buy / Swap / Sell – these are Facebook groups, you can give away stuff on either, or sell on the Buy / Sell group. Group membership required.
• Spare / excess food
  • ♥ Excess garden produce, shelf stable or tinned food – in the Community Fridge down the driveway at St Ronan’s church (no meat, dairy, opened or expired food) – let people know on Eastbourne Community Notice Board on Facebook if you can – especially for items with limited shelf life.
• Plastics 
  • ♥ HCC rubbish/recycling services , plastics types 1,2,5 (also glass, aluminium  steel cans, paper/cardboard, green waste) – no lids please!
  • Bunnings (plastic plant pots)
• Caps / lids  – St Albans Church Office Entrance (these go to the Sustainability Trust)
  • Plastic hinge caps and screw caps lids (any colour)
  • Plastic milk bottle caps
  • Plastic contact lense packaging without foil
  • Yoghurt pot lids
  • ONLY plastics labelled 2 or 5. Please make sure your plastics are cleaned, dried AND separated before dropping them off to us.)

• Kitchen waste/compost
  • ♥ Point Howard Community Garden drop-off
• Paper / cardboard etc.
  • ♥ Egg cartons – welcomed at the Eastbourne Butcher
  • ♥ Paper supermarket bags – drop to the Harcourts office (used for food banks)
• Clothing
  • ♥ Clothing bin by the Plunket rooms (wharf end of Rimu Street)
  • ♥ Clothes swaps at the Library/Community Hub (check when these are)
• Metals – there are scrap metal companies in Seaview –
  • ♥ Metal ring pulls and bottle lids (eg from cans and wine bottles) – inside the Library/Community Hub: there’s an ice cream container on top of the reserves shelf (profits fund dialysis machines)
  • ♥ St Ronans Church is trialing a metal recycling scheme (fundraising) – METALS bin in car port 234 Muritai Road, Eastbourne. Your Hutt City Council yellow-lid recycling bin will take only aluminium cans and steel cans. All other reject metal items must go to landfill… St Ronan’s METALS bin fills the gap. It is for you to recycle your reject metal items (kitchen, cookware, workshop, building hardware) so they don’t go to landfill…

    Your reject metal items should be minimally contaminated by plastic, rubber, glass, wood, paint, food, etc…

    • For low-value metals (iron, steel) the contaminant tolerance is very low.
    • For intermediate-value metals (stainless steel, aluminium, lead) the contaminant tolerance is a bit higher.
    • For higher-value metals (brass, copper) the contaminant tolerance is higher still.

    Pity our planet… Think of your grandchildren…

  • Sims Metals
  • MacAulay Metals.
• Electronics / appliances
  • ♥ Lions Bin – last Saturday of the month
  • ITRecycla in Seaview,
  • Earthlink in Wingate,
  • Tech Collect NZ – Noel Leeming in Lower Hutt.
  • Recycling for Charity (Upper Hutt)
• Batteries (except car)
  • ♥ Bin available at Eastbourne Library St Ronan’s Church (same conditions as Bunnings below).
  • ITRecycla in Seaview
  • Bunnings
    • AA, AAA, C, D, 9V, 6V
    • Power tool batteries
    • Button cell batteries
    • Other handheld-sized batteries that fit into the collection unit slot

    Bunnings cannot accept lead acid batteries, car batteries, products with embedded batteries or other batteries that do not fit into the battery collection unit slot.

• Lead acid/car batteries
  • MaCaulay Metals,
  • Sims Metals,
  • Ingot Metals – all in Seaview
• Light bulbs – Mitre10 Mega, all types of bulbs but must not be broken.
• Soft plastics – a soft plastic recycling bin is provided at our local
  • ♥ 4 Square supermarket – details on recycling
• Tetra Pak packaging (milk, juice and other cartons – includes caps, open, clean and dry.)
  • Eastbourne Library foyer
  • Earthlink in Wingate, the Upper Hutt Park Street recycling station.
• Polystyrene
  • EXPOL , Wingate. Hopefully Mitre10, ITM and other places in the future.
• PVC
  • Marley – Plumbing World Lower Hutt,
    • Only PVC pipe, gutter and fittings.
    • Please remove rubber rings, tape and packaging.
    • No heavily soiled products or products used for sewage/black water.
• Tyres
  •  Treadlite run a pickup service
  • Spicer Landfill Transfer Station Porirua City – free, maximum of 5 tyres, $6 if still on rim. More info tyrewise.co.nz
• Wooden furniture
  • Earthlink in Wingate
• Colgate Oral Care containers
  • ♥ Eastbourne Dental Centre

Recycling – future options

The Sustainability Trust (Wellington CBD) take most materials including bottle tops, batteries and e-waste

• Plastic bottle tops – we are exploring drop-off options, currently these can be taken to The Sustainability Trust .
• Bottle tops (metal and plastic) – https://goodcaps.org.nz/