Xtreme Zero Waste
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Xtreme Zero Waste is a community enterprise, using business as a tool to meet the needs of our community. Xtreme Zero Waste is contracted by Waikato District Council to operate weekly kerbside collections and the Raglan Resource Recovery Centre. At approximately 75% diversion from landfill, we are turning Raglan’s waste into resources and moving forward to zero waste.
Xtreme Zero Waste
2y ago
Kia ora Rural Residents,
We recently closed down the Te Mata pre-paid bag drop off site. We had to do this quickly due to the site becoming a health hazard – rats at the site and infesting neighbouring properties and due to the large and ongoing amounts of illegal dumping (over 1000m3 in the last 6months).
Additional containment has been placed at Te Uku to manage additional pre-paid bags dropped there.
The Te Uku site is emptied Monday and Friday (and more if needed).
The Te Uku site is currently having specialised containment made for pre-paid bag collection with lids, and closable ..read more
Xtreme Zero Waste
2y ago
Kia ora Raglan, our site will be closed this Good Friday and Easter Monday.
Please enjoy your long weekend with your family and friends, and we look forward to seeing you up on site Saturday or Sunday.
If you’re eating easter eggs, remember to recycle your cardboard boxes without plastic windows, and squish all the aluminium foil together for less litter and easier collection.
If you come across some stale hot cross buns… Here’s a great #lovefoodhatewaste recipe: https://www.lovefoodhatewaste.com/recipe/hot-cross-apple-crumble
If you’re heading away on a roadie, remember your keep cup and ..read more
Xtreme Zero Waste
2y ago
Our food waste collection service is up for consultation again with Waikato District Council and we’re asking again for your support to continue this important service.
Whether you use this service every week, partly alongside home composts, or not at all, folks will know that this service helps many in our community to divert their natural food waste scraps from landfill, reducing greenhouse gas emissions. With this service we can take this nutrients and make compost for growing more gardens and kai in. This circular economy makes sense, is so good for our global emissions, and our local comm ..read more
Xtreme Zero Waste
2y ago
Kia ora Raglan. We have some changes to our CLEAN FILL drop off.
Firstly, what is clean fill? We can accept soil, rubble, concrete, ceramics, toilets, broken tiles etc. We are keeping these items out of landfill by compacting it in areas on site that can be built up. We cannot take tree stumps, gorse, bamboo, flax and pampas with roots attached.
Our site has reached capacity and we can no longer accept truck loads of clean fill. We will be contacting commercial businesses directly, but all folks in the community please know from now it’s just up to a domestic trailer load Clean fill drop offs ..read more
Xtreme Zero Waste
2y ago
Kia ora Raglan, This Saturday 29th January, our site will be CLOSED.
We apologise if this inconveniences you. Due to Omicron being close by, we are rearranging our shop and drop off area to keep up with health and safety standards for Covid code red.
Our main priority during this difficult time is keeping our whanau and the wider community safe. Thanks for your patience, understanding, and continued support.
Kia kaha.
We will be back open 10-5pm Sunday and 12:30-5pm Monday ..read more
Xtreme Zero Waste
2y ago
Kia ora Whāingaroa,
The Xtreme team wish everyone a safe summer holiday and festive season ahead. Thanks for all the hard work stockpiling through lockdowns, super sorting and keeping up with the constant changes this year, 2021 has been quite the year! We invite you to continue working with us towards zero waste throughout the summer season, our collection days are the same, but site will be closed some days.
Our collection schedule is staying the same over Christmas and New Year. Please put your kerbside rubbish, food waste and recycling crates out on normal days Tuesday – Friday.
Rural com ..read more
Xtreme Zero Waste
2y ago
Great news Raglan, we are heading back to collecting 4 days a week. Āe we are all going back to normal days from Tuesday 7th December!
Kakariki zone Tuesday
Mawhero zone Wednesday
Karaka zone Thursday
Kowhai zone Friday
This also means folks don’t have to seperate out all recyclables to individual containment anymore. Everyone must continue to wash and squash however, and keep glass to its own crate.
• Mixed plastics (1,2&5) Ali cans and tin cans can go in the other green crate but if you’re feeling awesome keep seperating these items out with your neighbours.
• Cardboard and paper continu ..read more
Xtreme Zero Waste
2y ago
We are glad to announce that part of our site will be opening this week: Thursday 4th – Sunday 7th from 10.00am – 5.00pm
We are open for drop offs only of: Landfill, Recycling, Greenwaste, Metal & Wood Yards and Kāhu’s Nest (Shop items)
Payments for drop offs are via EFTPOS ONLY – NO CASH
Kāhu’s Nest and our Metal/Wood yards will be CLOSED for shopping at this stage ~ sorry!
Majority of loads will need to be unloaded by yourself where possible please.
We know it can get a bit hectic on site so we will have a minimum number of cars on site at once, please be patient waiting for your tu ..read more
Xtreme Zero Waste
2y ago
Kia ora Raglan! Great news – we are going to be picking up recyclables again from the first week of November. BUT WE NEED YOUR HELP to keep our crew safe.
We need you and your flat/whanau to sort your items separately into:
Brown Glass
Green Glass
Clear Glass
Aluminium Cans
Tin Cans
Flattened Cardboard
Paper inside a box or paper bag (if possible)
Plastics mixed (1s, 2s and 5s) – washed and squashed and lids removed please ?
Our team will NOT be sorting any recycling on the kerbside.
You can use boxes, crates, buckets, or whatever you have to separate all of these recyc ..read more
Xtreme Zero Waste
2y ago
Kia ora Raglan community, we are pleased to be collecting glass this week on our reduced days Wednesday and Friday.
We will be collecting pre-paid bags, food waste, and GLASS recycling only.
Please put all glass recycling (remove all lids) out to your kerbside in solid containment. Examples of this could be buckets, chilly bins, fish bins.
Cardboard boxes are not suitable containment as they will likely get wet, soft and break this week in the rain, and are too hazardous for our team to pick up safely. Also while we are not collecting cardboard, we don’t want any litter of bags and boxes on ou ..read more