Final stop for Waihī Beach’s extra summer kerbside collections

A busy first summer of extra kerbside collections in the Waihī Beach area is being hailed a success.

Monday 31 January is the final stop on Western Bay of Plenty District Council’s six week extra summer kerbside collection service to cater for the popular holiday hot spots of Waihī Beach, Athenree and Bowentown.

The three areas have had added recycling, rubbish and food waste collections in efforts to help communities keep up their waste minimisation efforts, even with an influx of holidaymakers and guests.

Council Deputy CEO and Group Manager Infrastructure Services, Gary Allis says, the extra kerbside collections for holiday hot spots around Waihī Beach have been a great success this summer.

Residents and visitors to Waihī Beach, Athenree and Bowentown have done great work continuing their challenge to minimise waste and have made great use of extra summer kerbside collections.

“We’re really proud of how our communities have welcomed visitors and showed them how we serious we are about minimising waste sent to landfill. Now, many of our visitors have gone and we need to get back to our single kerbside collection on Mondays, with glass and mixed recycling alternating.”

The last special summer kerbside collection is on 31 January (Auckland Anniversary Day), and the schedule will return to normal on 7 February (Waitangi Day). To cater for any overflow recycling on the public holidays the Athenree Recycling Centre will open both holiday Mondays from 10am-4pm.

The below collection and services will run over the upcoming public holidays

Auckland Anniversary, Monday 31 January

Last day of special summer kerbside collections.

Red rubbish bin with PAYT tag and all other bins.

Athenree recycling centre open 10am – 4pm.

Waitangi Day, Monday 7 February

Normal kerbside collection schedule resumes.

Red rubbish bin with PAYT tag, food scraps, glass recycling crate OR mixed recycling bin depending on your schedule (check yours at kerbside.co.nz/collection-day/)

Athenree recycling centre open 10am-4pm.

Gary says, “Our community deserve a huge pat on the back for how they’ve adopted the new kerbside service.

“And don’t forget you can now add common #5 plastics to your recycling bin.

“We’re already getting close to our goal of diverting 1800 tonnes of waste from landfill and doing it quicker than we predicted. We just need to keep up the good work and set a really ambitious goal for the 2022/23 year.”

Under the red traffic light setting there are no changes to kerbside collection services, please carry on putting your bins out as normal.

Check which bins to put out on 7 February with our collection day finder at kerbside.co.nz/collection-day/

Want a weekly reminder to put your bin out the night before? Download the Antenno app westernbay.govt.nz/antenno