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
Poll: Would you rather: Christmas in summer forever or winter forever?
Just a bit of a fun poll to get you thinking.
If you had to live out your Christmas days, would you prefer it was a summer Christmas or a winter Christmas?
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62.7% Summer
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35.9% Winter
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1.4% Other - I'll share below
⚠️ DOGS DIE IN HOT CARS. If you love them, don't leave them. ⚠️
It's a message we share time and time again, and this year, we're calling on you to help us spread that message further.
Did you know that calls to SPCA about dogs left inside hot cars made up a whopping 11% of all welfare calls last summer? This is a completely preventable issue, and one which is causing hundreds of dogs (often loved pets) to suffer.
Here are some quick facts to share with the dog owners in your life:
👉 The temperature inside a car can heat to over 50°C in less than 15 minutes.
👉 Parking in the shade and cracking windows does little to help on a warm day. Dogs rely on panting to keep cool, which they can't do in a hot car.
👉 This puts dogs at a high risk of heatstroke - a serious condition for dogs, with a mortality rate between 39%-50%.
👉 It is an offence under the Animal Welfare Act to leave a dog in a hot vehicle if they are showing signs of heat stress. You can be fined, and prosecuted.
SPCA has created downloadable resources to help you spread the message even further. Posters, a flyer, and a social media tile can be downloaded from our website here: www.spca.nz...
We encourage you to use these - and ask your local businesses to display the posters if they can. Flyers can be kept in your car and handed out as needed.
This is a community problem, and one we cannot solve alone. Help us to prevent more tragedies this summer by sharing this post.
On behalf of the animals - thank you ❤️
What word sums up 2024, neighbours?
If 2020 was the year of lockdowns, banana bread, and WFH (work from home)....
In one word, how would you define 2024?
We're excited to see what you come up with!
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