Rubbish and Recycling

Find out when rubbish, recycling and greenwaste is collected.

Place your glass crate and yellow lid recycling bin out together every fortnight on alternate weeks to your greenwaste.

Avoiding and reducing the amount of waste that’s produced on a build is the most efficient and cost-effective way to manage waste - as well as the best practice for the environment. Find out more about the part you can play.

Opening hours for our Resource Recovery Centres, and fees and charges for the Whakatāne Resource Recovery Centre.

Do you want to add another service to your current property? Has one of your bins has gone walkabout? Are you about to move into your newly-built home? Here's all the information you need to get your bins sorted.

For recycling to work, everyone must get involved. See the recycling section for information on how you can help, when collection days are and how you can reduce your waste.

We use a three strikes system to help manage increasing contamination in recycling and greenwaste bins across the Whakatāne District. If your bin is found to contain incorrect items, you’ll receive two warnings. After a third strike, your bin may be removed for three months.

Whakatāne District prides itself as clean and green. To help keep with this image, there are a number of ways that we can help protect our environment. Find out what you can do to reduce waste.

Why not save your greenwaste and make compost for your garden?

The large 240 L greenwaste bin is collected fortnightly on the same day as your residual waste and on alternate weeks to your recycling.

We're carrying out a trial of recycling stations around Whakatāne and Ohope. These Public Place Recycling stations will have a bin you can use for recycling glass, plastic, tins, cans and paper/cardboard items - and a bin for general rubbish.

Did you know the average household throws away 86 kilogrammes of edible food every year? Reduce your impact on the planet and invest in a home composting unit.

New Zealand families waste about $560 each year on food which is thrown uneaten into the rubbish bin. This adds up to a staggering $872 million for the whole country. The Love Food Hate Waste NZ campaign aims to turn this around by inspiring and enabling people to waste less food. 

There will be no kerbside collections on Thursday, 25 December 2025 (Christmas Day) or Thursday, 1 January 2026 (New Year’s Day).