Whangaparāoa Community Recycling Centre
637 Whangaparaoa Road, Stanmore Bay, Hibiscus Coast, Auckland, NZ
Open 5 days Thursday - Monday, 8 am to 4 pm. Closed Public Holidays.
General recycling, electronic waste and harder to recycle items are accepted. Scroll down for more detail and charges.
General recycling should be cleaned and sorted into categories. Lids off (collected separately).
The Recycling Centre is not a transfer station and doesn’t accept general waste including green waste, demolition waste and textiles.
This much-loved community recycling centre (WCRC) has been running since the 1980s, started initially by the local Boy Scouts. The site is owned by Auckland Council and it is run by a local charitable environmental community trust, Hibiscus Coast Zero Waste.
General Recycling
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Glass bottles & jars
Free
Generally beverage containers. Excludes drinking glass, mirrors, window glass.
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Tins & cans
Free
Generally beverage and food containers. Excludes paint tins and aerosol cans.
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Paper
Free
Includes magazines, books, envelopes. Remove staples, tape, plastic where possible
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Cardboard
flattened
$2 - a few items
$7 - boot load
$11 -ute load
Plastic Recycling
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Plastic containers
$2 per 20L
Household plastic with #1 - #7
Containers, bottles & trays. Generally food & beverage single use items eg milk bottles, meat trays, ice-cream containers.
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Plastic lids
Free
Collected separately
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Soft Plastic
$2 per 20L
Soft plastic is anything that can be scrunched. It’s usually single use food packaging.
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Plastic film & wrap
Free
Includes bubble wap
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PVC pipe
Price varies
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Oversized plastic items
larger than 4L
$3 per 20L
Electronic Waste (E-waste)
E-waste is anything that has a plug. Recycling E-waste recovers materials including rare & valuable metals such as gold and copper rather than losing them to landfill.
TV’s & monitors
CRT TV $45
Rear projection TV $55
Flat panel $27
CRT computer monitor $30
LCD computer monitor $13
PC’s
Desktops & servers $5
Laptops $6
Modems, switches, routers, computer speakers $7
Keyboards, laptop battery, UPS $5
Household appliances
Microwaves $13
Washing machines, dryers, dishwashers $35
Dehumidifiers $25
Vacuums $13
Small appliances $8
Heaters, fans $8
Other
mice, mobile phones, GPS & digital cameras - free
Printers
Printers, scanners, faxes -
small - less than 0.5m3 $18
large - greater than 0.5m3 $25
Photocopiers small/medium $50
Photocopiers large $70
Copier toner $5/kg
Consumer electronics
DVD players & VCR’s $10
Stereo systems $10
Speakers per unit $5.50
Other
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Polystyrene
$7 per 60L (large black plastic bag) & $12 per 100L
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Scrap metal
Free
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Batteries
$6/kg - household batteries
Free - car batteries
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Liquid paper board (Tetrapak)
$2 per 10L
Cleaned and cut open to flatten
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Coffee pods
Free through Terracyle & Nespresso
The below brands only, separated -
Nespresso
Nescafe Dolce Gusto
L’Or, Moccona, Jeds, Illy
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Colgate products
Free through Terracycle
toothbrushes, toothpaste tubes, dental floss tubes & the associated packaging
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Razors
Free through Terracycle
any brand - razors & the associated packaging
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Light bulbs
$2 long fluorescent tubes
$1 compact fluorescent & all other bulbs
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Why we have to Charge
With the closure of off-shore markets, local markets are flooded. The value of NZ’s recyclable commodities have dropped so low we can no longer cover the transport costs into Auckland.
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Items we currently don't take
Clothes, gas bottles, aerosol cans, household goods, furniture, bedding, mattresses, car seats
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