Sort It! List Of Disposal Options

Composting is a great way to reduce the amount of leftover food scraps from the kitchen and the green waste from your garden going to landfill. To make compost you will need a good mixture of “greens” (fruit and vegetable scraps and some grass clippings) and a good mixture of “browns” (cardboard, twigs and coffee).

Compost is made by millions of bugs munching through the green and brown material. This process can take time, but once compost is made you can put it on your garden to help keep your plants fit and healthy.

For more information about composting visit the Create Your Own Eden website.

You can put all the items below into your Recycling Wheelie Bin:

1. Glass bottles and jars
2. Aluminium cans (eg. baked bean cans and fly spray cans)
3. Steel cans (eg. coke cans)
4. Plastics with 1-7 stamped on them, except polystyrene (eg. milk bottles, ice cream containers, yoghurt pottles, margarine containers, fruit juice bottles etc...).

Only empty bottles and containers that have been washed and squashed (where possible) should be put into the recycling bin. Your recycling wheelie bin should be put out on to the kerbside after 5pm on the evening before your collection day or before 7am on the morning of your collection day.

Recyclables from the recycling wheelie bins are taken to the Waitakere Transfer Station to be sorted and then, depending on what they are made of, they are sent to different places to be recycled.

All rubbish collected in North Shore City Council’s orange prepaid rubbish bags from residential and business properties is taken to Redvale landfill. This landfill is located 30km north of Auckland in Rodney District. Landfills take up a lot of space and can be bad for our environment.

To decrease the amount of rubbish that goes to landfill we need to think about what we are putting in our rubbish bags and then make some changes by reducing, reusing and recycling.