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Where does Recycling from Hurunui go?

Glass and scrap metal is backloaded to Christchurch using empty trucks returning from Kate Valley. Glass is crushed for roading and metal recycled locally.

Cardboard, paper, food and drink cans and plastic bottles and rigid plastic containers numbered 1, 2 and 5, from the kerbside collections and transfer stations are processed at EcoCentral in Christchurch.

Recycling at EcoCentral is audited. In 18/19, the average contamination rate for Hurunui was 1.4% and 1.55% in 19/20. On-going low contamination rates have resulted in Hurunui being acknowledged as a Recycler of Merit.

Information explaining where EcoCentral send recycling is available on their website.