Our Plans
Council has developed a Waste Minimisaton and
Management Plan and wants to be recognised as a
natonal leader in waste minimisaton.
One of the key challenges is to fnd ways to
encourage our community to reuse, reduce and
recycle to a far greater degree. Making the kerbside
bag collecton service user pays would reduce waste
going to landfll but Council has decided not to make
this change at this tme.
We also need to collect more informaton on the
amount of waste Hamiltonians generate.
We PROvIDe WeeKLY
RubbISH aND ReCYCLING
COLLeCTIONS FOR
ReSIDeNTIaL PROPeRTIeS
(exCLuDING INNeR CITY
aPaRTMeNTS).
Refuse is disposed of in a landfll at Hampton Downs.
We also manage closed landfll sites at Rototuna,
Cobham Drive, Willoughby and Horotu to prevent
adverse efects on the environment and public
health.
The Council has a legal responsibility to reduce
the amount of waste going into landflls and to
encourage more recycling and reuse.
WhAt We Do:
•
ruBBish ColleCtion
•
WAste MiniMisAtion
•
lAnDfill site MAnAGeMent
Reduce, reuse, recycle...
soliD WAste
4
%
of your rAtes
goes towards
solid
Waste ManaGeMent.
KerBsiDe reCyClinG
was introduced
in July 2002. Since then more than
38,000tonnes
of recyclables have been collected.
90
%
of Hamilton
households
regularly recycle.
Recycled materials are sold to help pay for the cost
of collecton. The Refuse Transfer Staton, Recycling
Centre and the green waste compostng facilites at
the Hamilton Organic Centre are all owned by the
Council. The operaton of these three facilites is
contracted to privately-owned businesses.
DiD you KnoW?
Hamilton households
throWout
246
tonnes
of rubbish every
day, the equivalent weight of
27 buses.
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