Let's Get It Sorted - Kerbside Recycling This page is some general information about Kerbside Recycling including what can and what cannot be recycled. Page Contents Sorting Our Rubbish | If You Have Weekly Rubbish Collection | If You Do Not Have Weekly Rubbish Collection | What's Recyclable - What's Not | Getting Started | Recycle Right Now Every rubbish day in Whangarei District is also recycling day. Every household is entitled to a recycle bin, into which go recyclable plastics, glass jars and bottles, tins and cans. On rubbish day, the recycle bin goes out with the household rubbish bag with paper for recycling tied in a bundle or in a plastic supermarket bag. Recycling is our chance to help shrink our district's rubbish pile. Everyone doing just a little, every week, to reduce our waste will make a big difference in our district. Note that your recycle bin belongs with your property. If you move house, please leave it behind for the next occupants. The First Step - Sorting Our Rubbish Recycling is about taking materials that can be used again - the "recyclables" - out of the rubbish we send to landfill. By sorting out the good stuff, it can be used again to make new products. This saves valuable resources. It also means we send less waste to the landfill - which is better for the environment and saves money. How Recycling Works We will put the good stuff - the recyclables - into our recycle bin, not the rubbish bag. On rubbish day we will put our recycle bin out on the kerbside, alongside our rubbish bag. Two trucks will come by. The rubbish truck will take away the rubbish bag. The recycling truck will take away the recyclables, and leave the empty bin for us to start filling again for next week's collection. There's no charge for recycling either at the gate or if you take your bin to Re:Sort or a transfer station. What's Recyclable - What's Not? Glass Whole bottles and jars - with lids removed Not: Window glass Lightbulbs Crystal Ceramics/pottery Drinking glasses Broken glass Plastic Plastic bottles from the kitchen, bathroom and laundry with a 1 or 2 on their base- rinsed, squashed flat and with lids replaced Metal Aluminium drink cans Clean foil plates Steel food cans Empty aerosols Rinsed and cans squashed Paper Newspapers, magazines, junk mail, envelopes, flattened cardboard boxes, shoe boxes, cartons, old phone books - tied in a bundle or placed in plastic bag Not: Plastic coated paper and card - for example, cardboard milk and juice containers and beer cartons. To view further information about rubbish and recycling, including charges and collection dates, click here.