Get started at home
If you’ve just moved to town, one of the first things you’ll want to get sorted is your recycling. First check around the house for a black crate. If you can’t find one, then call Queenstown Lakes District Council on 443-0024. Their staff will do the paperwork and order you a new one. The crate is free so long as it’s the first one for your household. If you’re renting, you’ll need to contact your landlord or rental agency and get them to make the call for you.
Then head on down to Wanaka Wastebusters recycling centre, corner of Ballantyne Rd and Riverbank Rd, to pick up your crate. Check out our great re-use shop while you’re there – it’s a great chance to meet some locals and find some treasure while you’re there.
- Wanaka has a comprehensive kerbside collection service, which Wanaka Wastebusters runs under contract to Queenstown Lakes District Council.
- You can also drop off your recycling and second-hand goods at our recycling center on the corner of Riverbank and Ballentyne Roads.
- Metalworks Wanaka have hand-crafted trolleys to slip under your recycling crate and make it easier to get it to the kerb. You can buy from us.
Clean stream recycling
We’re really proud at Wastebusters that we send away clean, well-sorted bales of recycling to be reprocessed. Mixed, dirty recycling can’t be recycled into a quality product, so the care we take keeps our business viable and means that our recycling is worthy of the name. Of course it all starts with you at home, and the effort you take to follow our recycling guidelines. We’re always blown away at high standard of recycling in Wanaka – thanks for caring.
