What Goes Where Guide
Select a letter to view all the disposal and recycling options for specific products or items. For example open B for Broken glass or Batteries etc.
- Aerosol cans - Refuse (must be empty)
- Ashes - Refuse (must be cold and wrapped in newspaper)
- Agrichemicals/ containers/ drums - Contact Agrecovery for collection
- Aluminium foil/ trays/ tubes - Refuse
- Asthma Inhalers - Refuse
- Alkathene pipe - Refuse
- Baby food pouches - Refuse
- Batteries - Community Collection Point – take to Ōtorohanga Recycling Centre - FREE
- Bike parts - Local scrap dealer or District Recycling Centres (fees apply)
- Bread bags - Refuse
- Books - Charity shop
- Bottle tops - Refuse (community collection point being investigated for future)
- Broken glass - Refuse (must be wrapped in newspaper)
- Bubblewrap - Refuse (community collection point being investigated for future)
- Carpet - District Recycling Centres (fees apply)
- Cat litter - Refuse (must be wrapped in newspaper)
- Computers and cables - District Recycling Centres (fees apply) or Waipa Urban Miners
- Copier Toner - Contact supplier for recycling options
- Crockery - Charity shop (if broken wrap in newspaper and place in refuse)
- Disposable cups and plates - Refuse
- DVDs - Charity shop
- Electronic items - District Recycling Centres (fees apply) or Waipa Urban Miners
- Fabric - Charity shop (if dirty or not reusable place in refuse)
- Fluorescent tubes - Mitre 10 (must not be broken)
- Food/beverage container tetrapak type - Refuse (community collection point being investigated for future)
- Food scraps - Compost (if unable to home compost place in refuse)
- Furniture - Charity shop (if unable to be fixed take to Ōtorohanga Recycling Centre (fees apply))
- Glass bottles, jars - Recycle (if broken wrap in newspaper and place in refuse)
- Garden chemicals - Community Collection Event (see Community Events)
- Garden waste - District Recycling Centres (fees apply, excludes noxious and unmanageable material eg Flax)
- Gas cylinders - District Recycling Centres (must be degassed, fees apply)
- Glasses - Return to optometrist (if broken place in refuse wrapped in newspaper)
- Household chemicals - Community Collection Event (see Community Events)
- Ice cream containers 1, 2, 5 - Recycling (lids in refuse)
- Iron (metal) - Local scrap dealer or District Recycling Centres (free)
- Jug - District Recycling Centres (fees apply) or Waipa Urban Miners
- Kettle - District Recycling Centres (fees apply) or Waipa Urban Miners
- Lids - Refuse (community collection point being investigated for future)
- Light bulbs - Mitre 10 (if broken place in refuse, must be wrapped in newspaper)
- Magazines - Recycling
- Mattress - Charity shop (if unusable take to District Recycling Centres fees apply)
- Medicines/ medical equipment - Return to pharmacy
- Mobile phones - Drop off at Ōtorohanga District Council Office
- Motor oil - Community Collection Event (see Community Events)
- Nappies (Disposable) - Refuse
- Newspapers - Recycling
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- Paints - Community Collection Event (see Community Events)
- Paper - Recycling
- Plastic containers/bottles 1, 2, 5 - Recycling
- Plastic containers/bottle 3, 4, 6, 7, not numbered - Refuse
- Plastic items - Refuse
- Plastic plant pots - Refuse
- Plastic wrap (soft plastics) - Refuse (community collection point being investigated for future)
- Polystyrene - Refuse (community collection point being investigated for future)
- Pots and pans - Charity shop
- Printer cartridges - Contact supplier for recycling options
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- Stainless steel - Local scrap dealer or District Recycling Centres (free)
- Shoes - Charity shop (refuse if unsuitable for reuse)
- Scrap metal - Local scrap dealer or District Recycling Centres (free)
- Takeaway containers clean plastics 1, 2, 5 - Recycling
- Takeaway containers dirty - Refuse
- Tetrapak bottles - Refuse (community collection point being investigated for future)
- Tin foil - Refuse
- Timber - District Recycling Centres (fees apply)
- Toothpaste tubes and brushes - Refuse (community collection point being investigated for future)
- Toner cartridges - Contact supplier for recycling options
- Triggers and pumps from spray bottles - Refuse
- Tyres - Local tyre dealer
- Underlay - District Recycling Centres (fees apply)
- Videos - Charity shop (refuse if unsuitable for reuse)
- Wallpaper - Refuse
- Wood pallets - District Recycling Centres (fees apply)
- Wrapping paper (standard) - Recycling
- Wrapping paper (foil or glitter decorated) - Refuse
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- Yoghurt pots - Recycle (1,2, 5 must be clean, any other plastics refuse)
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