NRC - Free Household Hazardous Waste: Amnesty Days
Northland Regional Council's Household Hazardous Waste: Amnesty Days are back!
Bring your household hazardous waste to be disposed of safely. Trained and experienced personnel will be on-site to identify substances, sort them, and store them safely for disposal.
WHERE: Re:Sort Centre, 201 Kioreroa Road, Whangārei
WHEN: 8am-12pm
-16 January 2024
-19 March 2024
-21 May 2024
✅ We will accept small to medium quantities (individual containers up to a total of 20kg or 20 litres) of the following:
- Garden chemicals, sprays and powders
- Pool chemicals
- Corrosive and flammable household products
- Legacy agrichemicals, such as dieldrin, lindane, DDT, 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D
❎ We can't accept:
- Ammunition and explosives*
- Asbestos
- Camping gas canisters
- Fire extinguishers
- Fireworks
- Gas cylinders
- Medical waste
- Non-residential waste
- White goods/appliances
- Waste oil*
- Paint*
- Batteries*
*For disposal of ammunition, flares and fireworks, please contact the NZ Police on 105.
**For the Whangārei district, waste oil, household batteries and paint can be taken to the Re:Sort Centre on non-amnesty days. For the Far North and Kaipara districts, please contact your local district council for disposal options. Car batteries can be taken to a local scrap metal dealer.*
NOTE:
• Please do not bring any hazardous materials or chemicals to any Northland Regional Council offices or drop them at the Re:Sort Centre on non-amnesty days.
• Hazardous waste from businesses (including farms and orchards) will incur a disposal fee. Businesses can contact NRC to find out about options for the disposal or treatment of their hazardous wastes. Alternatively, businesses can bring their hazardous waste to the amnesty days and be on-charged for the disposal costs.
For more information and tips on transporting hazardous substances:
P: 0800 002 004
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