Napier Recycling More Plastics

Recycling has just got a lot easier for Napier residents who are now able to put most of their plastic waste out for the fortnightly kerbside recycling collection.

In the past, only Grades 1 and 2 plastics – soft drink bottles, some shampoo and detergent bottles, milk bottles and household cleaning containers – have been accepted for the citywide domestic collection service.

Now, the range of plastics destined for recycling has been extended to cover Grades 1 to 7. So households can also put out plastic detergent bottles, shampoo bottles, bread bags, shopping bags, jars, yoghurt and margarine containers and meat trays.

That makes recycling easier than ever. Simply rinse food containers and bottles clean, and separate recyclables into plastics, paper, tin can and glass.

Check what your recycling collection days are online now.

Contracted by the Napier City Council to operate the domestic kerbside collections until 2013, Transpacific AllBrites Industries Ltd have secured reliable markets for the additional grades of plastic and see recycling them as a long-term proposition.

The extended service will increase the amount of material able to be recycled and further reduce the amount of waste going into the Omarunui landfill. Recycling shrinks tonnages of domestic waste stream going to landfill by about a third.

Napier joins some of New Zealand’s largest cities in extending the range of plastics collected for recycling.

Some plastics that aren’t suitable for recycling include expanded polystyrene and large items such as car bumpers.