Other Recycling & Waste Services

Electronic waste such as old televisions, computers, printers, gaming consoles etc can be taken to the Manawatū Resource Recovery Centre at 247 Kawakawa Road, Feilding.

These items go to E-Cycle in Palmerston North where they are recycled.

There is a cost to drop these types or items at the Manawatū Resource Recovery Centre, which covers the cost of recycling these items. Please see our Fees and Charges to check costs for the types of items you need to dispose of.

Keep batteries out of your rubbish and recycling

Household batteries can cause fires when they are crushed or damaged during rubbish and recycling collection and processing.

Batteries can be dropped off at the special battery recycling bins located at the Recycling drop off area at the Manawatū Resource Recovery Centre, and outside of Mitre 10 in Feilding.

Recycle empty medicine blister packs.

You can drop off your medicine blister packs (such as painkiller sheets, antihistamine sheets etc) into the special boxes located at the Manawatu District Council office and the Library.

Recycle plastic bags and other accepted soft plastics.

Soft plastics cannot go in your yellow-lid recycling bin, however, there are special bins you can drop these off to.

Across New Zealand the soft plastics recycling scheme is run by The Packaging Forum. Soft plastics are collected in special bins, usually located at supermarkets and other stores.

In Feilding we currently have 2 soft plastics recycling bins located at:

• Woolworths Feilding
• The Warehouse Feilding

Once the plastics have been collected and baled, they are sent to Future Post and Save Board for recycling into fence posts, vegetable gardens and sustainable building materials including insulation board.

For information on what can and can’t go in the soft plastics recycling bins please see this link: Soft plastic recycling guide (PDF file, 970.5 KB)

Polystyrene can be brought to the Manawatū Resource Recovery Centre at 247 Kawakawa Road, Feilding for recycling.

We collect the polystyrene in special bins and send it to E-Cycle in Palmerston North where is gets heated and compressed to take up less space, then sent to Maylasia and turned into things such as picture and mirror frames.

It does cost money to recycle polystyrene, so there is a small charge to drop off based on volume, please see our Fees and Charges.

Green waste can be taken to the Manawatū Resource Recovery Centre at 247 Kawakawa Road, Feilding.

There is a cost to dispose of green waste with us - charges can be found in our Fees and Charges. The fee covers the processing cost of turning this green waste into compost.

Our Manawatū Resource Recovery Centre is a registered Tyrewise drop off point. This means you can bring up to 5 tyres at a time and dispose of them free of charge.

Accepted tyre types include:

• car tyres
• 4x4 tyres
• light truck tyres under 50kg
• long-haul vehicle tyres
• tractor tyres.

Tyres are picked up from us fortnightly by a registered Tyrewise contractor, where they go to be made into things like sports feilds, playground matting, and horse-riding arenas.

If your household items are not in fit condition to be given a second life through donation to a second hand store, you can bring them to the Manawatū Resource Recovery Centre for disposal.

These can be taken to Manawatū Resource Recovery Centre at 247 Kawakawa Road, Feilding, for recycling or correct disposal.

There may be fees or charges that apply for these items due to the cost to recycle or dispose of these items safely, so please check our Fees and Charges section for more information.

Doing some DIY? You can bring your timber waste, gib offcuts and concrete to the Manawatū Resource Recovery Centre at 247 Kawakawa Road, Feilding, where it gets collected for recycling.

There is charges associated with dropping off these items, please see our fees and charges for more information.

If you have a builder doing a large project for you, you have uncovered some asbestos in your renovations, or you have other construction and demolition waste to get rid of, you can contact Central Environmental to help with recycling or safe disposal.

Please do not try to dispose of asbestos at the Manawatū Resource Recovery Centre.

Hazardous waste such as household and garden chemicals, LPG cylinders, flares and chlorine can be taken to the Resource Recovery Centre for safe disposal.

However there are some restrictions around this.

• Chemicals must be in secure containers, clearly labelled.
• Under 5kg or 5L
• No leaking
• Flares undamaged
• LPG cylinders marked

We cannot accept:

• Leaking, damaged, unsealed or unlabelled containers
• Anything over 5kg or 5L
• Commercial quantities
• Industrial gas or LPG cylinders greater than 9kg
• Fireworks
• Toxic chemicals, hydrogen peroxide, caustic soda, hydrochloric acid

Farm plastics such as bale wrap, feed bags, twine and some plastic drums should not be placed in household recycling or left at village recycling centres.

Plasback provides a private collection and recycling service for a range of agricultural plastics.

Depending on the material, you may need to:

• purchase a Plasback liner
• separate different types of farm plastic
• arrange collection directly with Plasback.

Plastic drums must be prepared correctly before recycling.

Agricultural chemicals should not be placed in Council rubbish or recycling.

Agrecovery provides recycling and disposal programmes for eligible agricultural and horticultural products, including:

• agrichemical containers
• animal health containers
• dairy hygiene containers
• unwanted or expired agricultural chemicals.

Some products can be disposed of free of charge, while charges may apply to others.

Unwanted agricultural chemicals

Specialist collection services are available for some unwanted, expired or banned agricultural chemicals. If you have some to get rid of please contact AgRecovery or 3R group.

Do not burn, bury or place agricultural chemicals in household rubbish.