Solid Waste
To view information regarding a particular topic please click on a title in the list below:
- Kerbside Collection
- Recycling
- Waste Transfer Stations
- Waste Transfer Station Fees
- Waste Transfer Station Hours (please click on links below)
To view this information in brochure form please click on the following link: Waste Brochure
Please note that all Waste Transfer Stations are closed on the following days:
New Year’s Day, Day after New Year’s Day, Wellington Anniversary, Waitangi Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Anzac Day, Queens Birthday , Labour Day, Christmas Day and Boxing Day.
Kerbsite Collection
Budget Waste carry out a private kerbside refuse bag collection (yellow) and wheelie bin service in the following townships:
Monday - Scotts Ferry and Turakina Beach
Wednesday - Bulls, Ratana, Whangaehu and Crofton (Makirikiri Road, Neil Dow Street and Lawson Street)
Thursday - Marton, Turakina and Crofton (Wellington Road)
Friday - Taihape and Hunterville
Rangitikei Wheelie Bins carry out a private kerbside refuse bag collection (red) and wheelie bin service in the following townships:
Wednesday - Bulls, Scotts Ferry, Ratana, Turakina and Turakina Beach
Thursday - Marton
Friday - Hunterville and Ohingaiti
Any inquiries regarding collection of waste from roadside should be directed towards either private company:
Budget Waste Phone 06 344 4201
Rangitikei Wheelie Bins Phone - 06 327 8336
Recycling
NOTE: Recycling is only available at Waste Transfer Stations. Please sort carefully into the correct bin. There is no charge for recycling.
Plastic Bottles
Please note it is plastic bottles only: Grade 1 - Plastic Soft Drink Bottles and Grade 2 - Plastic Milk Bottles.
Soft drink and milk bottles are chipped, washed, melted and made into new products like car bumpers and polar fleece.
NOTE: Plastic bags, polystyrene trays or cups, ice cream, margarine, yoghurt containers or plastic film will not be accepted. This is because items are made of many different types of plastic, which are not easily recycled and cannot currently be recycled by our re-processor.
Cans and Tins
Please note it is Steel Food Tins and Aluminium Cans only.
The food tins should be rinsed to prevent odour and flies, and place the removed lids inside the empty cans.
Once aluminium is collected, cans are shipped overseas for re-processing. Steel tins are sent overseas and are re-smelted for use in new products.
NOTE: Aluminium foil or trays will not be accepted.
Paper and Cardboard
Paper and cardboard recycling is available at the Bulls and Marton Waste Transfer Stations.
Including: Newspapers, Glossy Magazines, Junk Mail, Envelopes, Writing Paper, Old Phone Books, Egg Cartons, Corrugated Cardboard and Thin Cardboard (i.e. cereal boxes).
Oil, Paint and Hazardous Waste
Oil and other household hazardous waste is only accepted in small qualities (of 20 litres or 20 kilograms) for free at the larger transfer stations in Bulls, Marton and Taihape. They must be given to a Waste Transfer Station Operator in a secure container with information regarding the contents. All Transfer Stations will accept hazardous waste.
Agrichemical Containers
Agrichemical plastic containers can be returned for recycling to the Marton and Taihape Waste Transfer Stations. These containers must be triple rinsed. The containers will be recycled into culvert pipes.
Scrap Metal Recycling
Scrap metal including car batteries and gas cylinders are accepted at all Transfer Stations. Large items not easily handled should be discussed with Scrap Metal dealers who may be able to pick up items.
Contact Strong Metal Recycling phone 06 354 2974
Glass Recycling
Glass recycling is available at all district transfer stations. Sorting into separate colours is not required.
Waste Transfer Stations
What can be disposed of at the Waste Transfer Stations?
Typical household refuse, garden vegetation and old appliances and furniture and tyres.
NOTE: All waste must be in manageable pieces
Car Bodies
Car bodies are not accepted at the Waste Transfer Station unless they are broken down into small manageable pieces (i.e.: can be lifted by one person).
Vehicles can be offered to a car dismantler/wreckers yard or stripped vehicles can be disposed of at sites out of the district (e.g.: Feilding Site - phone Manawatu District Council 06 323 0000).
Food Scraps
All domestic food scraps are to be suitably wrapped. Special requirements may apply to smelly loads or commericial food waste.
Asbestos
Is not accepted at the Transfer Stations. Enquiries should be made to Midwest Disposals Ltd, Bonny Glen (06 350 2976)
Animal Carcasses
Animal carcasses and meat cuts larger than 20kg are not accepted at the district Transfer Stations. Enquiries should be made directly to Midwest Disposals Ltd, Bonny Glen (06 350 2976).
Amounts less than 20kg will be accepted but must be frozen and plastic wrapped.
Other materials deemed to be hazardous may be refused by the site operator.
Landfill Access
Bonny Glen Landfill is owned by Midwest Disposals Ltd. Public access is not available. Enquiries regarding large trucks and special loads phone 06 350 2976 or 027 2816522.
Waste Transfer Station Fees*
| Waste Transfer Station Accepted Refuse | Charges (Marton) | Charges (Taihape, Bulls, Ratana and Hunterville) | Green Waste Charges (Available in Marton only) |
| Rubbish bag | $2.10 | $2.10 | $1.00 |
| Wheelie bin | $10.30 | $10.30 | $5.10 |
| Car boot | $14.40 | $14.40 | $7.20 |
| Van/Station-wagon | $23.70 | $23.70 | $11.90 |
| Smaller trailer (deck up to 1.8m long) and Utes |
All subject to the standard weigh bridge charge: @ $113 per tonne. Minimum trailer charge: Less than 100kgs: $14.50 100kgs to 260kgs: $30.00 |
$30.00 | $15.00 |
| Medium trailer (deck up to 2.4m long) | $38.00 | $19.00 | |
| Large trailer (deck up to 3.0m long) | $56.00 | $28.00 | |
| Overloads (loads greater than 1.5m in height) | Plus $12.00 on above | N/A | |
| Oversize (decks over 3.0m long) | $110.00 | $56.50/tonne Trucks with decks 3 metres length or greater | |
| Overloads (loads greater than 1.5m in height) | Plus $37.00 on above | ||
| Trucks |
Large trucks (3 tonne plus) are require to use weigh bridge at Marton. Smaller trucks determinded as per trailer charges. | ||
| Tyre - car | $8.00 | $8.00 | |
| Tyre - truck | $22.00 | $22.00 | |
| Tyre - tractor | $30.00 | $30.00 | |
| Recycling | |||
| Glass | Nil | Nil | |
| Metal | Nil | Nil | |
| Paper/cardboard | Nil | Nil | |
| Plastic bottles (grade 1 and grade 2) | Nil | Nil | |
| Can (tin and aluminium) | Nil | Nil | |
| Oil and Hazardous waste (20ltr or 20kg max) | Nil | Nil | |
| Gas cylinders | Nil | Nil | |
| Paint | Nil | Nil | |
| Agrichemical containers | Nil | Nil |
*Fees last updated 27 June 2012, applicable from July 1 2012.
Waste Transfer Station Hours
Please note that all Waste Transfer Stations are closed on the following days:
New Year’s Day, Day after New Year’s Day, Wellington Anniversary, Waitangi Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Anzac Day, Queen's Birthday, Labour Day, Christmas Day and Boxing Day.
Contact: 06 322 1630
| Monday | 7:30am to 11:30am |
| Tuesday | Closed |
| Wednesday | 7:30am to 11:30am |
| Thursday | Closed |
| Friday | 7:30am to 11:30am |
| Saturday | 8:00am to 3:00pm |
| Sunday | 8:00am to 3:00pm |
Contact: 021 1851284
| Monday | Closed |
| Tuesday | Closed |
| Wednesday | 2:00pm to 4:00pm |
| Thursday | Closed |
| Friday | Closed |
| Saturday | 2:00pm to 5:00pm |
| Sunday | Closed |
Contact: 027 2105211
| Saturday | 11:00am to 1:30pm |
Contact: 06 327 8200
| Monday | 7:30am to 11:30am |
| Tuesday | 7:30am to 11:30am |
| Wednesday | 7:30am to 11:30am |
| Thursday | 7:30am to 2:30pm |
| Friday | 7:30am to 11:30am |
| Saturday | 8:00am to 3:00pm |
| Sunday | 8:00am to 3:00pm |
Contact: 027 2155594
| Monday | Closed |
| Tuesday | Closed |
| Wednesday | 2:30pm to 4:30pm |
| Thursday | Closed |
| Friday | Closed |
| Saturday | 9:00am to 12:00pm |
| Sunday | Closed |
Contact: 06 388 0170
| Monday | 7:30am to 11:30am |
| Tuesday | Closed |
| Wednesday | 7:30am to 11:30am |
| Thursday | Closed |
| Friday | 7:30am to 11:30am |
| Saturday | 8:00am to 3:00pm |
| Sunday | 8:00am to 3:00pm |
