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Broadlands Road Landfill and Resource Recovery Centre

Opening hours

OPENING HOURS: 1 MAY TO 30 AUGUST
Monday to Friday 8am to 5pm
Weekends and public holidays 8am to 5.30pm
OPENING HOURS: 1 SEPTEMBER TO 30 APRIL*
Monday to Friday 8am to 5.30pm
Weekends and public holidays 8am to 6pm

*Closed Christmas Day, Good Friday and up to 1pm on ANZAC Day.

Charges

How much you pay for waste disposal depends on the weight and type of your waste.

  • Upon arrival at the facility a weighbridge will be used to weigh your load while the type of your waste will be assessed (see 'how to use the weighbridge' below)
  • Note minimum charges apply for general waste and green waste (see below for charges)
  • You can pay by Eftpos or credit card. The facility does not accept cash or cheques.

Please be aware hazardous waste that can endanger human health, such as asbestos, medical waste and radioactive substances are not accepted at any of our transfer stations or the Broadlands Road landfill. If you have waste that may be considered dangerous or hazardous or you are not sure about, please contact us prior to visiting one of our sites to see if it will be accepted.

Waste from outside the Taupō District will not be accepted at the Broadlands Road Landfill.

Refuse – minimum charge$29.00

Refuse – per tonne rate

$295.00

About refuse charges

The refuse rates shown above reflect our operating costs and includes two levies set by central government:

  • Waste Minimisation Act 2008: for every tonne of waste that goes into landfill, we pay a waste levy to the Ministry for the Environment. This levy is then invested into projects and infrastructure that support waste minimisation activity.
  • New Zealand Emissions trading scheme: as a landfill operator we are required to purchase New Zealand Emission Units (ETS). This cost is incorporated into our refuse charges.

We encourage everyone to re-use, recycle and reduce! When visiting our facilities, separate out any recycling materials and green waste from general rubbish/waste. Reducing the amount of waste sent to landfill is better for the environment and saves you money!

Learn more about our waste minimisation initiatives

Bagged rubbish can be disposed of as general refuse/waste, using pre-paid orange stickers or yellow Enviro NZ prepaid bags, as used for kerbside rubbish collections in the Taupō District:

  • Rubbish bags must be no bigger than 60 litres
  • A pre-paid orange sticker must be on every rubbish bag, unless it is a yellow Enviro NZ prepaid bag, otherwise a $3 charge per bag will be applied.
Rubbish bags and pre-paid orange stickers Charge
Rubbish bag - with pre-paid orange sticker already applied No charge
Yellow Enviro NZ prepaid rubbish bag No charge
Rubbish bag - without pre-paid orange sticker $3.00 per bag

The disposal of green waste can include most general garden waste, grass clippings, tree and shrub pruning and branches but some restrictions apply to protect contractors equipment and maintain product quality. See exclusions below.

Green waste – minimum charge $8.00
Green waste – per tonne rate $80.00

Green waste exclusions:

  • Green waste must not be mixed with general refuse, otherwise refuse charges will apply to the whole load
  • Green waste cannot contain any of the following, otherwise refuse charges will apply to the whole load and it will need to be dumped as refuse: Flax, phoenix palm fronds, cabbage trees/leaves, stumps, tree limbs over 150mm, vines, gorse, agapanthus and other noxious plants, netting, string/twine/wire, steel poles/stakes, rubbish, hard fill/concrete/rocks.

Take home shredded green waste

  • Visitors to the facility are welcome to take home shredded green waste at no cost.

Type of waste Charge
Tyres
Tyre disposal $7.70 per tyre
Clean fill

Clean fill – minimum charge

$3.00
Clean fill – per tonne rate $30.00
Special waste

Special waste (immediate burial) – minimum charge

$30.00
Special waste (immediate burial) – per tonne rate $300.00

Follow these steps when you arrive at the facility:

  1. Drop any recyclables into the various recycling bins/areas first.
  2. Drive slowly onto the weighbridge and stop. A camera will pick up your vehicle number plate.
  3. Tell the weighbridge operator what type of waste you have - general waste, green waste, rubbish bags, other waste etc.
  4. Drive to the appropriate area and dispose of your waste.
  5. When you leave, drive your vehicle slowly onto the weighbridge and stop. A camera will pick up your vehicle number plate. Your vehicle will be weighed again, without waste.
  6. The weighbridge operator will notify you of the charge. Pay the weighbridge operator using Eftpos or credit card.
  7. Take your receipt as proof of payment.

Location

Address: 132 Broadlands Road, Taupō (about 3km north of Taupō)

Recycling

The drop-down sections below include more information about the types of items that can be accepted for recycling.

Recycle your batteries and vapes for free at our battery recycling station

Batteries contain numerous components that are bad for the environment and they can deteriorate if not in use and become hazardous. Collecting batteries before they deteriorate means they can be recycled appropriately, saving valuable components for reuse and reducing the risk to people and the environment.

YES please - we accept the following batteries for free recycling:

✔️ Batteries from household devices:

✔️ AA, AAA, C, and D cell batteries
✔️ Alkaline cell
✔️ Lithium
✔️ 9-volt
✔️ Cr123 camera batteries
✔️ Dry cell and zinc batteries
✔️ Li-ion batteries (from laptops, cameras, cell phones and tools)
✔️ NiCd
✔️ NiMH
✔️ Gel cell

✔️ Loose batteries
✔️ Removable mobile phone batteries*
✔️ Vapes can be recycled whole

NO thank you - you CANNOT recycle the following batteries:

❌ Damaged batteries
❌ Leaking batteries
❌ Rusty batteries
❌ Modified batteries
❌ Mobile phones without a removable battery*

*If your old mobile phone doesn’t have a removable battery, drop the phone off at a One NZ, Spark or 2Degrees retailer where it can be recycled.

Batteries being recycled.

Child car seats, capsules and booster seats that are expired or damaged can be recycled by simply dropping them in the designated container in the recycling area at the Broadlands Road Transfer Station.

YES please - we accept the following for free recycling:

✔️ Child car seats
✔️ Child capsules
✔️ Child booster seats

The seats are collected, dismantled, and recycled, through the national child car seat recycling programme SeatSmart.

Child car seats have expiry dates of between six and 10 years depending on the make and model, and the SeatSmart programme not only gets expired and unsafe seats out of circulation, it also ensures they don't go to landfill. SeatSmart recycles or repurposes around 75 percent of car seats by weight, including plastic, metal and straps.

Car seats being recycled.

YES please - paper and cardboard you CAN recycle:

✔️ Flattened cardboard boxes with tape removed
✔️ Magazines, newspapers, brochures, catalogues, leaflets, pamphlets
✔️ Empty pizza boxes - remove any pizza scraps
✔️ Cardboard such as toothpaste boxes, soap boxes, tissue boxes and toilet roll tubes
✔️ Envelopes and domestic junk mail
✔️ Telephone directories
✔️ Shredded paper and any other clean paper or cardboard

NO thank you - paper and cardboard you CANNOT recycle:

❌ Tetra Pak cartons
❌ Takeaway coffee cups and fast food drink cups
❌ Used napkins, tissues and paper towels
❌ Dirty paper plates
❌ Mixed paper (or cardboard) products such as waxed paper, carbon paper, milk or juice cartons.

TIPS for recycling your paper and cardboard:

♻️ Flatten cardboard cartons and boxes

Lots of cardboard recycling crates.

YES please - we accept the following items for e-waste recycling:

✔️ Computer equipment: desktops, laptops, monitors
✔️ Small peripheral devices such as keyboards and mice
✔️ Televisions
✔️ Toners from copiers and printers
✔️ Video/DVD/CD players
✔️ Stereos, speakers and other hi-fi equipment
✔️ Printers and scanners
✔️ Mobile phones and other phones
✔️ Photocopiers and fax machines

Ewaste bin and sign.

YES please - glass you CAN recycle:

✔️ Whole glass jars and bottles

NO thank you - glass you CANNOT recycle:

❌ Broken glass (please wrap in newspaper and put into your rubbish)
❌ Window glass
❌ Drinking glasses
❌ Glass cookware or ceramics
❌ Vases
❌ Light bulbs

TIPS for recycling your glass:

♻️ Empty and rinse clean your glass jars and bottles
♻️ Separate bottles by colour - brown, clear or green and blue
♻️ Remove bottle lids and caps and place them in your household rubbish or recycle in the bin provided
♻️ Broken glass must be wrapped in newspaper/cardboard and placed in your rubbish

Different types of glass can be recycled.

Greenwaste is accepted for recycling (see charges above).

To protect contractors equipment and maintain product quality there are restrictions on green waste - it cannot contain any of the items listed below, or the whole load must be charged and dumped as refuse.

NO thank you - you CANNOT recycle these items as green waste:

❌ Agapanthus and other noxious plants
❌ Cabbage trees/leaves
❌ Flax
❌ Gorse
❌ Hard fill/concrete/rocks
❌ Phoenix palm fronds
❌ Rubbish
❌ Steel poles/stakes
❌ String/twine/wire
❌ Stumps
❌ Tree limbs over 150mm
❌ Vines netting

✔️ Agricultural chemicals (domestic quantities only; no commercial)
✔️ Paint
✔️ Scrap metal including well washed paint tins
✔️ Waste oil - including lubricating oil, transmission and hydraulic fluids only (domestic quantities only, up to 20 litres)

All the recyclables - including plastics 1, 2 and 5, tin and aluminium - that you put in your green bin for kerbside collections can also be recycled for free here.

YES please - plastic, tin and aluminium you CAN recycle:

✔️ Kitchen, bathroom and laundry plastics with the number 1, 2 and 5
✔️ Aluminum drink cans
✔️ Tin food cans and pet food cans

NO thank you - plastic, tin and aluminium you CANNOT recycle:

❌ Any plastics with the number 3, 4, 6 and 7
❌ Outdoor number 5 plastics such as plant pots
❌ Children's plastic toys and bath toys
❌ Soft plastics such as plastic bags/wrappers, frozen food bags, grocery bags, chip packets, bread bags, glad wrap and bubble wrap
❌ Bottle caps and lids
❌ Aerosol cans such as deodorant, air freshener, sunscreen and hairspray
❌ Tinfoil, foil trays and foil pans
❌ Containers larger than 4 litres cannot be recycled
❌ Small items under 5cm x 5cm also cannot be recycled

TIPS for recycling your plastic, tin and aluminium:

♻️ Look for the recycle number or symbol on the bottom or side of plastic containers
♻️ Rinse out and clean your recyclables
♻️ Put bottle caps and lids into your rubbish bag
♻️ Remove any shrink or plastic wrap from recyclable items
♻️ Push tin lids down inside the tin for safety, no sharp edges

Generally speaking, whiteware contains lots of good metals in them like stainless, aluminum, steel, wrought iron and they also have non-ferrous precious metals like copper that are in the electrical cables and motors, and all of these things can be recycled. All refrigerant gases will be removed and destroyed, as part of the recycling process.

YES please - the following whiteware items CAN be recycled:

✔️ Driers
✔️ Freezers
✔️ Fridges
✔️ Heat pumps and air conditioning units
✔️ Microwaves
✔️ Ovens/Stoves
✔️ Washing machines

Concrete not accepted for recycling

Please be aware concrete cannot be accepted for recycling at present. It will be accepted as general refuse, normal refuse charges will apply.

Habitat for Humanity

The Habitat for Humanity second-hand retail ReStore accepts and resells quality new and gently pre-loved goods ranging from furniture, appliances, clothing, books, building materials, and more. By shopping, donating or volunteering here, you are supporting Habitat for Humanity's mission with all proceeds going directly toward local housing programmes.

Phone: 07 217 0069
Email: taupo@habitat.org.nz

Learn more on the Habitat for Humanity website

Mulch

Mulch may be available to buy. For further information, including availability and pricing, contact Michael Rusden from Envirowaste on 027 504 3714.

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