Recycle unwanted items

 Here are some ways to recycle those unwanted items  

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Aluminium cans  

  • Pakeke Lions pay for cans - Woolworths car park on Saturdays 9am-11am
  • Kerbside recycling collection
  • AllBrites recycling depot, Innes Street 
  • Schools and church groups may collect cans

Batteries  

Vehicle and boat batteries accepted at:

  • Gisborne Autoelectrics, 159 Carnarvon Street
  • Benson Bros, Kahutia Street

Books and magazines

  • Hospital, doctors waiting rooms, charitable organisations
  • Kindergartens, childcare facilities and Kohanga Reo
  • Box outside Sun City pharmacy 
  • Kerbside recycling collection
  • AllBrites recycling depot, Innes Street

Building materials

  • Hallrite Building Recyclers, 71 Awapuni Road or
  • Advertise in the Eastland Trader or Gisborne Herald

Car bodies or wrecks  

  • Parts2Go, Grey Street
  • Eastland Autowreckers, 212 Stanley Rd, pickup available
  • M E Jukes and Son, 180 Stanley Road, phone 021-250-3664 (Mon-Fri 9am-5pm)

Cellphones

  • Wilcom in Customhouse Street accept old telecom cellphones
  • Digital Mobile, 116 Gladstone Road, phone 868 6776 accept vodafone cellphones
  • AllBrites recycling depot, Innes Street

Clothing - good, clean used

  • Friends and families (dress up for children)
  • Kindergartens, childcare facilities and Kohanga Reo
  • Charitable organisations
  • Flea market or garage sale
  • Advertise in the Eastland Trader or Gisborne Herald

Commercial waste

The Waste Exchange is a unique service that helps businesses connect their unwanted materials and recyclables with new owners through a web-based forum and free phone forum.

Through the waste exchange businesses can:

  • find alternatives to the landfilling of unwanted materials
  • save on disposal costs
  • support community groups and schools by registering re-usable materials

Through the waste exchange everyone can:

  • access re-usable materials
  • access information about local recyclers and regional recycling services
  • reduce rubbish going to landfill

All Waste exchange registrations are part of a community supporting the reduce, re-use and recycle philosophy.

Think before you throw - a call to The Waste Exchange could be a better solution!

For more information visit www.nothrow.co.nz or call 0800 NOTHROW (0800 668 4769)

Computers

  • Dell accept used and unwanted PCs, phone 0800 440 603
  • The Ark 09 272 2676 accept used and unwanted PCs www.the-ark.co.nz
  • eDay - annual drop-off day check eDay information 

Concrete and bricks

  • M E Jukes and Son, 180 Stanley Road

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Farm waste  

  • Chemical containers at AgRecovery, Matawhero
  • AllBrites, Innes Street

Fire extinguishers & gas bottles

  • Cylinder Test Laboratory, 1/55 Carnarvon St

Glass bottles and jars  

  • Kerbside recycling collection
  • AllBrites recycling depot, Innes Street 
  • Kindergartens, childcare facilities and Kohanga Reo
  • Useful for jams/pickles etc, advertise in the Eastland Trader or Gisborne Herald

Garden waste

  • Tree pruning can be put aside for kindling or firewood
  • Hire a shredder or use a contractor (look under tree services in the yellow pages)
  • Employ a green waste contractor (look under lawn mowing services in the yellow pages)
  • Judds, McDonalds Road who make and sell compost
  • AllBrites, Innes Street - see their opening hours 

Household items 

  • Second-hand Sundays - February and October each year
  • Charitable organisations or church groups
  • Advertise in the Eastland Trader or Gisborne Herald
  • Second-hand dealers

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Knitting wool 

  • Charitable organisations, church groups
  • Kindergartens, childcare facilities, schools and Kohanga Reo
  • Rest homes

Metal 

  • Gisborne Bottle and Scrap Metal, 265A Grey St - hey pay for copper, brass and aluminium
  • M E Jukes and Son, 180 Stanley Road - they pay for non ferrous metals

Paint 

  • Resene Colourshop in Gladstone Road
  • Kindergartens, childcare facilities, schools and Kohanga Reo
  • Eastland Trader or Gisborne Herald
  • AllBrites depot, Innes Street

Paper and cardboard

  • Kerbside recycling collection
  • AllBrites recycling depot, Innes Street 
  • Kindergartens, childcare facilities and Kohanga Reo

Printer or photocopier cartridges

  • Toner Recycling Centre P: 0800 180 160

Plastic containers and bags

  • Kerbside recycling collection
  • AllBrites recycling depot, Innes Street 
  • Kindergartens, childcare facilities and Kohanga Reo
  • Rest homes want ice cream containers

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Soil, dirt, topsoil 

  • M E Jukes and Son, 180 Stanley Road

Spectacles - eyewear

  • Drop them into any optician, they are used in developing countries.

Timber 

  • Rimu and other native timbers are used by people making furniture
  • Secondary schools or polytech for use in the wood work room
  • Hallrite Building Recyclers, 71 Awapuni Road
  • Advertise in the Eastland Trader or Gisborne Herald
  • AllBrites, Innes Street

Tyres

  • Service station or specialist tyre company
  • AllBrites, Innes Street

Whiteware 

When you purchase a new appliance, ask the sales agent to take your old appliance.

  • stoves, washing machines and dryers accepted at Gisborne Bottle and Scrap Metal Dealers, 265A Grey Street
  • AllBrites, Innes Street

Waste oil

  • AllBrites, Innes Street

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Last updated: 14/05/2010 8:55am Copyright © 2007-2010 Gisborne District Council
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