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Household Refuse Collection in the Hurunui Townships

Householders in the Hurunui townships may place up to two sacks of refuse out per week for collection. Refuse bags must be normal sized and must:

Be securely tied
Left at the kerbside boundary of the property by 8am on collection day
Not exceed 60 litres in size or 15kg in weight. Refuse contained in hessian, wheelie bin, carrier bags, drum bags or garden sacks will not be collected.
Not contain garden waste, car batteries, tyres or be full of bottles. Please note boxes of bottles will not be collected and should be taken to the Council’s transfer stations to be recycled.

Bags which do not meet the Council’s acceptance criteria will be stickered and not removed. The refuse collection crew has strict collection criteria, which they must adhere to, which has been issued to them by Hurunui District Council.

Mondays Refuse Collections	Tuesdays Refuse Collections	Wednesdays Refuse Collections
Cheviot Culverden Gore Bay Hanmer Springs Mt Lyford Rotherham Waiau	Amberley and Amberley Beach Hawarden Leithfield and Leithfield Beach Waikari Waipara	Greta Valley Motanau Beach Omihi Scargill

Household Refuse Collection in Rural Areas

Rural householders may receive a collection for up to, two refuse sacks per week, providing:

They pay the Refuse Collection Rate.
Purchase and apply the appropriate stickers to the bags.
Agree the collection location in advance with the Council.
(This collection point must be on the contractors current collection route, and must be in a safe stopping and turning place for the truck)
The same collection criteria as applied to the township collections are abided to.

Please contact Sally Cracknell on 03 314 0055, or Leonie Walker on 03 314 0108 should you wish to participate in the rural refuse collection service.

Hurunui District Council - Domestic Kerbside Recycling Collection

The Council and the Waste Minimisation and Management Board encourage and support recycling and waste minimisation in the district.
Through the domestic kerbside recycling service, it is possible to recycle:

newspapers, magazines and cardboard
egg boxes
food and drink cans
plastic bottles and plastic film
carrier bags

All recycling green bags must be tied securely when place out for collection.

A replacement (rolled) green bag will be left at the point of collection.

Please do not place glass into the recycling bags. Bottles and jars can be taken to any of the Hurunui transfer stations to be recycled for no charge.

In Hanmer Springs, glass bottles and jars are also collected from the kerbside. To ensure collection, please place glass (with caps and lids removed) into cardboard boxes and leave it at the kerbside by 8am on a Monday. Any boxes found to contain contaminants and bottles with lids and caps on cannot be accepted for recycling.

The collection days for household recycling are as follows:

Mondays Collection

Amberley
Amberley Beach
Leithfield
Leithfield Beach
Waipara
Hanmer Springs
Hawarden
Waikari

Tuesdays Collection

Cheviot
Scargill
Greta Valley

Wednesdays Collection

Culverden
Rotherham
Waiau

Glass bottles and jars in all other areas can be delivered to the transfer stations for no charge - providing caps and lids are removed.

Recycling Electronic Items e-waste

Disposing of old TVs, computers, monitors and other Electronic Waste (e-waste) safely can be difficult. These items can contain toxic substances such as lead & mercury. Rapid changes in our technology have resulted in e-waste becoming the world’s fastest Various Electronic items growing form of waste.
When properly handled e-waste can be disposed of without harm to human health or the environment. In fact many components of old or unwanted electronic goods, including reusable metals, are able to be recovered through recycling.
Council sees the benefits to our community and our environment of disposing and recycling e-waste safely and supports the disposal of these items through these transfer stations.

Removing and Recycling e-waste also enhances the life and health of landfills by reducing the amount of fill. This ultimately benefits the environment we live in.

All e-waste collected through the transfer stations will be processed in Canterbury by E-Scrap Recycling

Normal Recycling Charges apply

What can I bring to the transfer stations for recycling?

Public Holiday Collections

Illegal Dumping of Refuse in the Hurunui District

The illegal dumping of waste is an offence against the Litter Act 1979. The Council has a number of available enforcement options including issuing an infringement notice (maximum $400 fine) or prosecution through the Courts.
If illegally dumped litter is of such a nature as it could endanger any person (example - any bottle whether broken or not, glass, article containing glass, sharp or jagged material, or any substance of a toxic or poisonous nature), those responsible could be sentenced to a maximum of one month imprisonment and/or a maximum fine of $7,500. In the case of a body corporate, the fine increases to a maximum amount of $30,000.

Agrecovery comes to Canterbury for agrichemical collection

The Agrecovery Chemicals programme will be holding its second collection of unwanted and expired agrichemicals in the Canterbury region shortly. The first collection held in February 2011 resulted in the largest single Agrecovery agrichemical collection to date, with 2060kg of chemicals picked up from properties in Canterbury.

For this upcoming collection Environment Canterbury will be providing partial subsidies for some chemicals.

Anyone wanting to dispose of unwanted agrichemicals needs to book with Agrecovery prior to the collection event. The booking deadline for the Canterbury collection is Friday, 13 January 2012.
The booking process is easy and can be done online at Agrecovery where a simple search function allows users to select the agrichemicals they wish to dispose of, or ring Agrecovery for a booking form on freephone 0800 247 326.

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