Whangaparaoa Community Recycling Centre
637 Whangaparaoa Road, Stanmore Bay, Hibiscus Coast, Auckland, NZ
Hours: Thursday - Monday, 8 am to 4 pm. Closed Public Holidays.
Contact the Recycling Centre: 021 2424 689
hello@whanagaparaoacrc.nz
Recycling Centre Charges
General Recycling
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Free
Generally beverage containers. Excludes drinking glass, mirrors, window glass.
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Free
Generally beverage and food containers. Excludes paint tins and aerosol cans.
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Free
Includes magazines, books, envelopes. Remove staples, tape, plastic where possible
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$2 - a few items
$7 - boot load
$11 - ute load
Plastic Recycling
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$2 per 20L
Household plastics with #1, 2 and 5 (sorted by number).
Containers, bottles & trays. Generally food & beverage single use items eg milk bottles, meat trays, ice-cream containers.
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Free
Collected separately
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$2 per 20L
Soft plastic is anything that can be scrunched. It’s usually single use food packaging.
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$2 per 20L
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Free
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$3 per 20L
Plastic buckets, lawn chairs, laundry baskets, paddling pools etc.
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Plastics - #3, 4, 6, 7 and no numbers are Mixed Plastics.
$2 per 20L
We accept them but they will end up in Landfill because the companies that use or manufacture them do not recycle them. The easiest thing to do is not buy products that use these plastics!
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$7 per 60L (large black plastic bag) $12 per 100L
Other
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$7 per 60L (large black plastic bag) & $12 per 100L
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Free
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$6/kg - household batteries
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Free
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Free
Cleaned and cut open to flatten
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Free through Terracyle & Nespresso
The below brands only, separated -
Nespresso, Nescafe Dolce Gusto, L’Or, Moccona, Jeds, Illy
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Free through Terracycle
Toothbrushes, toothpaste tubes, dental floss tubes & the associated packaging
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Free through Terracycle
Any brand - razors & the associated packaging
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$4 long fluorescent tubes
$1 compact fluorescent & all other bulbs
Electronic Waste (E-Waste)
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CRT TV $45
Rear projection TV $55
Flat panel $27
CRT computer monitor $30
LCD computer monitor $13
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Desktops & servers $5
Laptops $6
Modems, switches, routers, computer speakers $7
Keyboards, laptop battery, UPS $5
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Microwaves $15
Washing machines, dryers, dishwashers $35
Dehumidifiers $25
Vacuums $13
Small appliances $8
Heaters, fans $8
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Free
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mice, mobile phones, GPS & digital cameras Free
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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
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DVD players & VCR’s $10
Stereo systems $10
Speakers per unit $5.50
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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 don't accept
The Recycling Centre is not a transfer station and doesn’t accept general waste, green waste, construction and demolition waste, textiles, clothes, gas bottles, aerosol cans, household goods, furniture, bedding, mattresses, car seats.
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Please clean your recyclables
General recycling should be cleaned and sorted into categories.
Lids off (collected separately).