tairua & Pauanui roadside collection days are changing.
Tairua is now Thursday pick up
Pauanui is now Friday pick up
with alternating recycling and rubbish collection weeks
Our rubbish and recycling services are changing from 1 September.
See below for some key information. Please see below the summer season collection dates and dates for 2025
Tairua Refuse Station - 3 Red Bridge Road, Tairua
Phone: 07 864 7639
We operate seven Refuse and Recycling Transfer Stations – at Thames, Coromandel Town, Matarangi, Whitianga, Tairua, Pāuanui and Whangamatā.
They're open to standard hours, seven days a week including most public holidays:
During daylight saving
29 September 2024 –
5 April 2025 Monday to Sunday, 8:30am - 5:30pm
Outside of daylight saving
6 April 2025 –
27 September 2025 Monday to Sunday, 8:30am - 4:30pm
Closed Christmas Day, New Year's Day, Good Friday and until 1pm on Anzac day
Soft Plastics Recycling Scheme
Following a successful launch in Thames in June 2022, the Packaging Forum’s soft plastic recycling scheme has also now been introduced in Tairua, Whangamatā and Whitianga.
This scheme promotes soft plastic recycling using community collection bins. The soft plastics will then be turned into fence posts or building materials.
Smart Environmental will collect the soft plastics and bale the plastic ready to transport either to Future Post in Tuakau (where the product will be made into plastic fence posts) or save BOARD in Hamilton (where it will be made into building materials).
Our Council’s Solid Waste team work closely with the Packaging Forum to provide this service.
Where can I find these community bins?
Thames
Pak’nSave
The Warehouse
Thames Council Office
Thames Refuse Transfer Station
Whangamatā
New World Whangamatā
Council office Whangamatā
Refuse Transfer Station Whangamatā
Whitianga
New World Whitianga
Countdown Whitianga
The Warehouse Whitianga
Council office Whitianga
Refuse Transfer Station Whitianga
Tairua
Tairua Refuse Transfer Station