Kerbside recycling collection

Find out if your property is within the kerbside collection zone and what day your collection is here.

A Solid Waste Survey in 2019 showed that more than 60 per cent of what is going into our rubbish bins and then into the landfill could have been composted or recycled, which is why we want you to Make Landfill Your Last Choice.

Last year we collected almost 4000 tonnes of recyclable material from the kerbside (glass: 1982.08; paper/cardboard: 1282.58; plastic/cans: 625.379) – with almost all of it recycled here in New Zealand.

You can recycle:

• Glass 
• Paper and cardboard
• Plastics (1&2) and cans

Four simple steps to recycle right

1. Wash, remove lids and flatten cardboard

Wash out jars, bottles and cans; remember no food or liquids.

2. Any Council crate; Just seperate

Each household within the Hastings kerbside recycling zone has three crates for recycling. Recycling will only be collected in Council-issued crates. You can put out multiple crates with the same items (for example two crates of paper), but don’t mix the different categories in the same crate.

Separate items into the following categories:

3. Stop before the top

Don’t overfill your recycling crates.

Recycling outside of the crates will not be collected, for example large cardboard boxes.

If you have excess recycling, you can save it and put it out another week or take it to one of our free recycling drop off centres

If it’s windy, pop your heavier crate (bottles) on top of your crate of plastics or paper and cardboard, so it does not blow onto the street.

4. Kerbside by 7am

Place your recycling out at the kerbside by 7AM ON YOUR COLLECTION DAY. Place crates as close to the kerb edge as possible; not in the middle of the footpath.

What you can (and can’t!) put in your crates

Paper and cardboard

Clean and flattened paper and cardboard. Large cartons can be dropped at our recycling depots or you can cut them down to fit in your crate.

Plastic and cans

Number 1 & 2 household plastics. Wash, squash, lids off

Glass

Empty, clean glass of all colours without lids
Metal jar lids, metal bottle tops, aluminium screw caps, and fluorescent light bulbs and tubes can be recycled at The Environment Centre.