Rubbish and recycling

Summer holiday period kerbside collections 2025/26

If your kerbside bins are usually collected on a Thursday, or Friday, your collection day will be one day later than usual for two weeks, from Thursday, 25 December to Saturday, 3 January. This is to give our kerbside collections team a well-deserved break on Christmas and New Year’s Day. To those households impacted by this change, please place all bins at the kerbside before 7am the day following your regular collection day during this period.

If you have extra glass, recycling or rubbish that won’t fit into your bins on collection day, you can either save it for future collections or take it to the Te Maunga Transfer Station (as bins with lids that won’t close, or overfilled glass recycling bins, can’t be collected). Extra recycling or glass can be dropped at the transfer station free of charge, and you can drop up to four 75L bags of rubbish for $6.00 each bag (maximum weight of 10kg per bag). Anything over the four bags will revert to standard charges based on weight. Thanks for another year of sending less to landfill!