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Rob's ready for your lids, batteries and cords. Are you?

Hamilton East, meet your new drop-off point. : Hamilton East Community House has opened its Zero Waste Kirikiriroa Community Drop-off Point. It's a place for the resources that can't go in your kerbside recycling.

What you can drop off:

🔋 Batteries | Pūhiko
Yes. Household lithium batteries.
No. Batteries that are damaged, swollen, leaking or hot, or that have an odd smell. You'll need to take these directly to The Resource Recovery Centre on Lincoln Road.

🎧 E-waste | Ipara
Yes. Cords, mobile phones, remotes, tablets, laptops, headphones, iPods and MP3 players.
No. Larger items like whiteware and TVs. Lincoln Road can take these.

🧴 Soft plastics | Kirihou ngohengohe
Yes. Clean and dry bread bags, salad and frozen food bags, cereal bags, snack bags, chip packets, courier packs, bubble wrap.
No. Compostable packaging.

👕 Textiles | Papanga
Yes. Clean t-shirts, dresses, skirts, pants, jackets, pyjamas, socks, sheets, pillowcases, towels, curtains, fabric scraps.
No. Clothes still good enough to sell, or rehome.

🫙 Lids | Taupoki
Yes. Plastic lids (1, 2 + 5) and metal lids.

Waimarie: Hamilton East Community House, 53 Wellington Street, Hamilton East.
Drop-off hours: 9-4pm, weekdays.

Ngā mihi nui to Rob and the team at Waimarie for hosting, and to Hamilton City Council for making this partnership with our community happen.

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Zero Waste Kirikiriroa community Drop-off points have launched!

Western Community Centre is the first to open its Community Drop-off Point. It's a place for the things that can't go in your kerbside recycling.

What you can drop off :

🔋Batteries | Pūhiko:
yes. Household lithium batteries
No. Batteries that are damaged, swollen, leaking or hot, or that have an odd smell. You'll need to take these directly to The Resource Recovery Centre on Lincoln Road

🎧 E-waste | Ipara:
Yes. cords, mobile phones, remotes, tablets, laptops, headphones, iPods and MP3 players
No. Larger items like whiteware and TVs. Lincoln Road can take these.

🧴Soft plastics | Kirihou ngohengohe:
Yes. Clean, and dry bread bags, salad and frozen food bags, cereal bags, snack bags, chip packets, courier packs, bubble wrap
No. Compostable packaging.

👕 Textiles | Papanga:
Yes. Clean, t-shirts, dresses, skirts, pants, jackets, pyjamas, socks, sheets, pillowcases, towels, curtains, fabric scraps
No. Clothes still good enough to sell, or rehome.

🫙 Lids | Taupoki:
Yes. plastic lids (1, 2 + 5) and metal lids

Western Community Centre, 46 Hyde Avenue, Nawton.
Drop-off hours: 8.30am–5.30pm, weekdays.

Ngā mihi nui to Neil and the team at Western Community Centre for being the first to host, and to Hamilton City Council for making this partnership with our community happen.

To celebrate Te Wiki o te Reo Māori, we're giving you a sneak peek at some BTS of our next launch... 👀

Our new zero waste signage is getting a reo Māori makeover! Soon you'll see our bins, stations and spaces labelled with kupu Māori.

Swipe through for kupu you'll start seeing around Kirikiriroa 👉 How many did you already know?