Our goal is zero waste to landfill by 2040
How can you help achieve this goal? There are many ways! We encourage folks to refuse and reduce first and foremost. This is the easiest and best way to reduce resources entering the waste stream. We can all take pause and think, “Do I have something to fill that need already? Or could I make something else work? A bit of Kiwi ingenuity!”
But, of course if you can’t reduce or reuse, the second best is to make sure you properly recycle anything that you can. There are tips for proper recycling below. Make Anamata your first stop when shopping for something you may need instead of buying new!
1.
Anamata/Tip Shop
We repurpose and resell used and unwanted items back into the community and out of the landfill. Please consider dropping your useful items to us first.
- Good quality shoes, clothes and textiles
- Electronics and tools
- Kitchenware
- Books and games
- Building materials
2a.
Drop-off
Recycling
All items must be clean. These may be dropped off in their allocated bins at Anamata during opening hours
All recycling, greenwaste, scrap metal, whiteware, tyres, and anything else not destined for the tipface is now delivered to Anamata site at 66c Gray Rd, before delivering residual to the landfill.
Some items incur a fee at Anamata to contribute towards the cost of recycling or processing those items.
Find fees here
What’s accepted:
Thank you to the Waste minimisation and Innovation fund for supporting this recycling effort
- All kerbside recycling items (see below)
- Tetrapak (opened and cleaned 🔗)
- Soft Plastics
- Polystyrene
- Plastic bottle lids/caps
- Bread tags
- E-Waste
- Green Waste
- Scrap Metal
- White ware
- Tyres
- Untreated Timer (excluding tree stumps & logs)
2b.
Kerbside
Recycling
service provided by Aotea Contractors
All items must be clean! It’s fine to give them a scrub out at the end of washing your dishes
What’s accepted:
-
Plastic bottles and containers from your kitchen,
bathroom and laundry (lids removed and collected separately or delivered to Anamata for recycling - Glass bottles and jars (lids removed to landfill)
- Aluminium cans and empty aerosols
- Steel and tin cans
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Paper and cardboard- put beside yellow bin bundled and secured in lidded box or bag or tied securely (collected by a separate truck to the yellow bins)
*Please note, tetra packs eg milk and juice cartons are not accepted currently
What’s NOT accepted:
- Coffee cups - landfill or home compost
- Plastic bags - deliver to Anamata for soft plastics recycling (clean)
- Food and garden waste - compost or deliver to Anamata for composting
- Chemicals and hazardous waste - deliver to landfill
- Polystyrene takeaway containers and meat trays - landfill
- Batteries, especially Lithium batteries - deliver to Anamata for recycling
- Nappies and sanitary products - landfill
- Clothing, shoes and textiles - if good quality and clean, deliver to Anamata otherwise they go to landfill
- Window glass, mirror glass and light bulbs - if still useful deliver to Anamata otherwise to landfill
- Cookware, Pyrex and drinking glasses - if still in good condition deliver to Anamata for re selling, otherwise landfill
- Building waste - separate untreated timber from general waste and take to Anamata where it will be assessed for repurposing, re-use or firewood
- Medical waste - non-commercial, small items - landfill
3.
Landfill
Service provided by Aotea Contractors
If you are unsure of whether what you have is reusable or landfill, Anamata or landfill staff can guide you. It is important to separate your load so that potentially reusable or compostable/mulchable items are easily sorted and removed from landfill waste.
Gate fees at the Claris Landfill encourage everyone to reduce, recycle and divert from landfill. They are a contribution towards the cost of waste disposal for Aotea.