Kerbside collection changes from Thursday 25 December 2025 to Sunday 4 January 2026
If you usually put your bins out on Thursday or Friday, put your bins out one day later.
If you usually put your bins out on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday, there are no changes to your kerbside collections.
Normal collections will resume Monday 5 January 2026.
Paper, cardboard, glass, aluminium, and steel are all recycled onshore.
Only plastics 1, 2, and 5 are recycled onshore and can go into your yellow lidded kerbside recycling bins, along with paper, cardboard, clean tins and cans.
Plastics 3, 4, 6, and 7 are known as ‘hard to recycle’ and there are limited recycling options for them in New Zealand or overseas. They make up less than 5% of all plastics currently in the kerbside recycling.
This does not include plastic bags or other soft plastics. The Soft Plastics Recycling Scheme continues to collect soft plastics from nine selected Countdown and The Warehouse stores in Hamilton. This is a scheme Hamilton City Council is making a funding contribution towards.
Food scraps are collected and taken to a composting facility in Hampton Downs to be turned into compost.
