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Inner central business district (CBD) rubbish and recycling services

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Eligibility Delivery Collections Additional services Additional bags

Rubbish Recycling Paper and cardboard Business waste Historic information

Eligibility

The inner CBD is the area around Queen Street, Karangahape Road, Albert Street, and Quay Street. Each rated property within the inner CBD is provided with 104 official red rubbish bags, and 156 official clear recycling bags a year.

The official bags are provided at six-monthly intervals and can hold rubbish and recycling volumes equivalent to the service provided to suburban Auckland ratepayers.

The cost of rubbish and recycling services will be part of the rates bill. Ratepayers who do not use the service will not be able to receive a refund, as the service is funded from general council rates.

Alternative services will be provided to some multi-tenancy dwellings. These have already been identified and visited to decide what service would suit best.

Delivery

The next delivery of 52 red rubbish bags and 78 clear recycling bags took place from Monday 4 to Friday 22 August 2008. This delivery is for the period September 2008 to February 2009 inclusive.

If you do not receive any official bags and believe you are entitled to them, please contact us after Monday 8 September (when we will have the delivery confirmation from the contractor) and can confirm eligibility and check your delivery details. If you are a tenant, please check with the property owner first.

Note: Bags must always be signed for on delivery.

If you have a previous arrangement to pick up your bags rather than have them delivered, we posted you a letter in the week beginning 14 July 2008 advising where you can collect your bags.

Collections

• put out only the following for kerbside collection:
  • Auckland City official rubbish and recycling bags - see recycling for what can go in your recycling bags
  • bags or bins of licensed commercial collectors
  • paper and cardboard for recycling - see paper and cardboard for further information
• rubbish and recycling should be put out between 5pm and 5.30pm Monday to Saturday, and midnight to 4am every day. There are thirteen collections per week
• rubbish and recycling not in an official bag ie unmarked or black rubbish bags, or placed on the kerb outside of collection times, will be treated as illegal dumping and could result in a fine for those responsible

View Public holiday collections for changes to collection days following public holidays

Additional services

Where a property has more than one separately used or inhabited part (SUIP, ie more than one household or business), then additional services (104 rubbish bags and 156 recycling bags) are available at $210 (including GST) for each additional service. A maximum of one service per SUIP is available. See Your rates in 2008/2009 for more information on SUIPs and rating policies for 2008/2009.

If you purchase an extra set in any month but June you will be charged a pro-rata cost for the balance of the rating year. Contact us to find out if you are eligible for additional packs.

Additional bags

If you have more rubbish than you can fit in your official bags, additional official packs (two rubbish and three recycling bags) are available through Auckland City Front of House, 1 Greys Avenue, Central City at the recommended retail price (RRP) of $6.95 incl GST.

The packs are also available from the following inner city Starmart stores but Auckland City can't guarantee that the retail outlets will use the recommended price.

155 Queen Street 170-174 Queen Street 222 Queen Street 324 Queen Street

4 Fort Street 27-35 Victoria Street West 137 Quay Street

Official red rubbish bag

Official clear recycling bag

Recyclables

Paper pile

Cardboard pile

The bags may not be on display so you will need to ask for them at the counter.

Rubbish

Put your 'domestic-type' rubbish that cannot be recycled in your red rubbish bags.

Note: do not put garden rubbish, hazardous rubbish (such as paints, batteries, household cleaners and garden chemicals), trade waste or liquids in your bags. See hazardous waste disposal and garden rubbish disposal for information on how to dispose of these items.

Recycling

You can put the following in your recycling bags:

• glass bottles and jars only - without lids and rinsed. Please wrap any broken items and put it into your official red rubbish bags
• aluminium and steel tin and cans only - rinsed, squashed and with any sharp edges pushed safely inside.
• plastic bottles and containers, and their lids (grades one to seven from the kitchen, bathroom and laundry only), excluding
  • bottles that may have been contaminated with oil, fuel, weed killers, etc, or
  • anything larger than 4 litres.

  Please ensure containers are rinsed and squashed. Lids from plastic containers can be recycled so place these into your recycling bags as well.

  The grade is indicated inside the recycling symbol (triangle) on the item.

  Examples of bottles/containers in each grade are:

  • grade one - soft drink bottles
  • grade two - milk, cream and detergent bottles
  • grade three - food and cleaning material bottles
  • grade four - flexible squeeze bottles
  • grade five - icecream, yoghurt, margarine and chinese takeaway containers, strawberry punnets
  • grade six - shampoo, conditioner and moisturiser bottles, dip containers
  • grade seven - squeezable tomato sauce containers

  See Recycling symbols for more information about what they mean.

Paper and cardboard

There is a separate kerbside collection for paper (including magazines, flyers, brochures, etc) and cardboard (flatten cardboard boxed). Tie paper together with string or put it in a cardboard box for collection.

The following items cannot be recycled and should be put in your rubbish bags:

• packaging material (polystyrene, plastic and strapping)
• beer and pizza boxes, tetra pak cartons or anything else that can be put in a fridge or freezer are made from coated cardboard

Business waste

Your official red rubbish bag is for residential 'domestic-type' rubbish. Under the Auckland City Consolidated Bylaw, council is responsible for collecting only 'domestic-type' rubbish, and not rubbish that results directly from business activity.

An example is food thrown out by food retailers. Surveys have shown that this makes up half the rubbish collected by Auckland City Council in the inner city. This waste is the responsibility of the business.

For ideas about reducing waste, see Wastewise

Historic information

To continue to tackle Auckland city's rubbish problem, changes were made to the services provided to customers in the inner central business district (CBD) effective from 1 July 2002.

Many inner CBD customers had asked for a recycling service, and for the first time this service was made available. The separate paper and cardboard collection continued as it was.

The changes to the rubbish collection service will also help Auckland City Council to observe our responsibility under the Auckland City Consolidated Bylaw to collect only domestic or domestic-type rubbish.

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Updated August 2008