Eligible properties are provided with a red wheelie bin for residual rubbish, a yellow wheelie bin for mixed recycling, a green wheelie bin for organics and a blue glass crate for glass. The red and yellow wheelie bins are collected in alternate weeks, while the blue glass crate and green organics bin are collected weekly.
Collection Day, Calendars and Maps
To download a collection calendar for your area please click on the link below. If you're in Twizel please refer to the map in the section above to see if you're in the inner our outer collection area.
Day | Location (2024 dates) | Map |
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Monday | Twizel - Outer | Collection day map |
Tuesday | Twizel - Inner | Collection day map |
Wednesday | Tekapo | |
Friday | Fairlie Albury, Burkes Pass and Kimbell |
What goes in each bin?
If you are not sure of what can go in each bin, check underneath the lids of your red, yellow and green wheelie bins for labels that list what can go in each bin.
🔷Glass Bin | 🟡Recycling | 🟩Organics | 🔴Rubbish Bin | 🟣Resource Recovery Park
- 🔴Aerosol cans
- 🔴Aluminium foil
- 🔴Ashes (cooled for 7 days)
- 🟣Batteries - all
- 🔴Biodegradable plastic
- 🟡Books
- 🟩Bread, pastries and flour
- 🔴Bubble wrap
- 🟡Cans (clean)
- 🟣Car parts and scrap metal
- 🟣Cardboard boxes (clean and flattened)
- 🔴Cartons - milk and juice
- 🔴Cat litter
- 🟣CDs or DVDs
- 🟣Cellphones and smartphones
- 🟡Cereal boxes (clean and flattened)
- 🔴Cereal liners
- 🟩Cheese and butter
- 🟣Child car seats
- 🔴Clothing. shoes and textiles - Drop off to a clothing bin or charity if its reusable.
- 🟩Coffee grinds & loose tea leaves
- 🔴Coffee pods and sachets
- 🟣Computers and electronic devices
- 🔴Crockery. ceramics, porcelain (broken)
- 🔴Disposable nappies
- 🔴Dog poo
- 🔴Drinking glasses (clean)
- 🟡Egg cartons and trays (clean, dry)
- 🟣Electrical appliances
- 🔴Empty engine oil containers
- 🔴Fast food packaging / containers
- 🔴Fish and chip paper, paper towels and serviettes
- 🟩Food scraps, fruit and vegetables (including pips)
- 🟡Food tins (rinsed)
- 🟣Furniture
- 🔴Garden - Bamboo, cabbage tree leaves, rhubarb leaves, flax and palm leaves
- 🔴Garden pots
- 🔴Garden waste, most cut flowers, pruned branches, leaves and grass clippings (unsprayed)
- 🔷Glass bottles (rinsed, no lids)
- 🔴Glass cookware/ovenware (broken)
- 🔷Glass Jars (rinsed, no lids)
- 🔴Hoses and plastic tubing
- 🟣Household appliances
- 🔴Human and animal hair
- 🟡Junk mail
- 🟩Leftover meat, fish and bones
- 🔴Lids - plastic and metal bottle/ container lids
- 🟣Light bulbs - Fluorescent
- 🟣Light bulbs - Tungsten and LED
- 🟡Magazines
- 🔴Meat trays - polystyrene
- 🟡Meat trays with a number 1 plastic triangle (rinsed)
- 🟡Milk bottles with a number 2 plastic triangle (no lids)
- 🔴Mirrors (if broken)
- 🟡Newspaper and office paper
- 🟣Oils. e.g. mineral. used engine. gearbox and transmission oil
- 🟣Paint and chemicals
- 🔴Plastic bottles/containers - grades 3. 4. 6. 7 or no grade
- 🟡Plastic bottles/containers numbered 1. 2 or 5 (clean. no lids)
- 🔴Plastic film or wrap - soft plastic
- 🔴Plastic ties and Strapping
- 🔴🟣Polystyrene - Including packaging polystyrene
- 🔴Sanitary Items
- 🔴Shells and shellfish Shredded paper
- 🔴Smoke alarms (with batteries removed)
- 🔴String, twine, rope
- 🔴Takeaway cups
- 🔴Teabags
- 🔴Toys
- 🔴Window glass (broken)
- 🔴Wood - treated, stained. oiled or painted
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Items for the red rubbish bin include:
- General rubbish eg. dirty nappies.
- Animal droppings
- Paper handtowels, newspaper, tissues, serviettes and non-brightly coloured shredded paper
- Polystyrene.
- Teabags and coffee filters.
- Disposable coffee cups.
- Plant pots.
- 'Compostable' paper packaging.
- Non-recyclable plastics eg. plastic food wrap, toys, garden hose.
- Clothes, fabric, pillows or shoes.
- Crockery, eg broken plates and cups.
- Medical waste.
- Ashes from your fire place - wait until they are cool before putting in your red bin.
- Cigarette butts - wait until they are cool before putting in your red bin.
- Juice cartons.
- Aluminium trays and foil.
- Aerosol cans.
Items not for the red rubbish bin:
- Batteries – all
- Paint
- Electronic devices
- Hazardous chemicals
- Reusable items
Take the above items to a resource recovery park.
Reusable clothing, shoes and textiles can be dropped off to a clothing bin or charity.
Please note:
- Extra rubbish placed next to or on top of your bin will not be collected
- Place dust from sanders, sweepings and vacuum cleaners into bag
- Put hot ashes on your garden to cool, or place in a metal bucket away from buildings,for 7 days, before using on your garden or placing in your red bin
- Bag all waste to reduce litter
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Items for the yellow recycling bin include:
- plastic bottles, clear plastic trays and plastic containers numbered 1, 2 and 5 only (larger than a yoghurt pottle and smaller than 4 litres)
- food and drink tins and cans
- paper and cardboard, including clean pizza boxes
If it is not on this list, keep it out of your recycling bin.
Items not for the yellow recycling bin:
- Disposable nappies and sanitary items
- Soft plastics
- Drink cartons
- Aerosol cans (steel and aluminium)
- Aluminium foils and trays
- Lids, caps, pumps and spray triggers
Put them in your red rubbish bin.
Please note:
- All recycling should be clean and loose. It's easy, just give bottles and containers a quick rinse and keep items loose.
- Flatten boxes to make more room
- Clean plastic bottles by rinsing with dishwater
- Putting rubbish in the yellow recycling bin will contaminate recyclables. Contaminated recycling goes to landfill.
- Any recycling that is tied up inside a plastic bag will not go through our sorting system and will end up in landfill - don't waste your good recycling efforts, shake it out of the bag and into your yellow bin.
Ever thought about where your recycling goes?
Recycling collected in yellow bins in the Mackenzie District is sent to Timaru, where it is processed at the Timaru Materials Recovery Facility, operated by Enviro NZ.
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Items for the green organics bin include:
- Food scraps, skins and cores
- Vegetable scraps, peelings and stalks
- Cooked food
- Breads, grains and pasta
- Dairy
- Egg shells
- Meat and fish bones
- Coffee grounds and loose tea leaves
- Indoor-cut flowers
- Garden Waste – excluding cabbage tree leaves and flax leaves
- Grass clippings
Items not for the green organics bin:
- Plastic bags, wrap or strapping
- Hot or cooled ashes
- Treated wood, sawdust or shavings
- Bamboo, cabbage tree leaves, rhubarb leaves, flax and palm leaves
Put them in your red rubbish bin.
Please note:
- Place materials loosely in the bin so that it will be emptied completely. Do not stomp or compact your waste.
- The composting system destroys weeds, seeds and pathogens.
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Glass bottles and jars go in the Blue Glass Crate, not your yellow bin.
Items for the blue glass crate:
- Glass bottles - Rinsed, no lids
- Glass jars - Rinsed, no lids
Items not for the blue glass crate:
All other glass, including:
- Windscreen glass
- Oven safe glassware
- Drinking glasses
- Mirror or plate glass
Put them in your red rubbish bin.
- Light bulbs - LED and Ecobulb LED, and Fluorescent light bulbs can be taken to a resource recovery park.
- Lids and caps - Put plastic lids in your red rubbish bin. Metal lids and caps can be saved and taken to a resource recovery park.
Please note:
- If your glass crate is overfull then it makes it difficult to pick up safely without breaking glass on the footpath or road.
- No glass is to go into the yellow and green bins. If so, the collection truck drivers will reject the bin from collection.
- Clean glass bottles and jars by rinsing with dishwater.
- Your bin doesn’t need to be full to be collected.
- Jars can be sterilised and reused for preserves. Take them to a resource recovery park, or use them yourself.
Need an extra glass crate?
If you regularly have too much glass for one glass crate, an extra crate can be provided. Request a bin here.
Commercial collections
Commercial rubbish and recycling collections are available through Envirowaste - please contact them on 0800 240 120
General kerbside collection information
- Bins need to be out by 7am on your collection day.
- Place each bin half a metre apart, to allow for the bin collection truck's automatic arm to fit between the bins.
- Wheelie bin lids must be fully closed and glass must not be piled above the height of the crate.
- Wheelie bins are stamped with a unique number and allocated to individual properties, they should not be shifted between properties. If you have built a new home and need a set of bins, please contact us.
- If your bin has been damaged or stolen, please contact us on 03 685 9010