Recycling with Ngaio Climate Crew

NCC's Wellington Recycling Resource

Ngaio Recycling Collection

First Saturday of Every Month (except January).

Ngaion Union Church

2 Crofton Road, Ngaio

10am until 12pm

What we take each month includes:

1. 1. Plastic lids – any plastic type, no need to sort.
  2. Small Plastic items type 2 – These items must be marked with the type 2 recycling symbol.
  3. Small Plastic items type 5. These items must be marked with the type 5 recycling symbol.
  4. Metal Lids etc –including for eg Crown caps, metal screw tops, sparkling wine wires, metal jar lids, ring-pull caps.
  5. Household and hearing aid batteries.
  6. Oral care products and packaging from Colgate which is sent back to Colgate. (Does not include electric toothbrush heads).
  7. Curtains – must be mould free so they can be re-purposed.
  8. Wool – balls of wool which Crafty Volunteers, can use in their knitting for charity.
  9. Rubber bands from delivered The Posts – which are returned to The Post

.How to recycle with us

1. 1. If your recycling can go in the roadside collection – please use that.
  2. From time to time we pick up recycling that is left at the church door. That is fine if you are unable to get to the hall during our recycling hours, but only leave there on Saturday morning, make sure it is secure (will not blow away), and that items are separated so we can tip them straight into our collection buckets.
  3. Please separate the plastic lids into type 2 and type 5. Anything not marked, or other numbers will not be accepted for recycling
  4. Tetrapaks have turned into our biggest collection by volume – please make sure they are clean and dry, and if possible slit open and laid flat
  5. These instructions are to help everyone – recycling is not just throwing out rubbish – following these simple instructions means less work for our volunteers and makes life more pleasant (there have been some nasty surprises amongst the tetrapaks!)

Additional Collections

Each month we have one additional collection so plan ahead for these collections for the rest of the year. The February collection will be of other small metal items. See the complete schedule for 2026, in the table below

DATE	ITEM	COMMENT
Saturday 7 February	Small Metal items	(aluminium, copper + other metals) must be clean and dry, and small means they fit into a supermarket bag.
Saturday 7 March	Food Grade Silicon
Saturday 4 April	Ewaste	(small and medium devices and appliances excluding TVs and monitors).
Saturday 2 May	Coffee Capsules –	Start collecting your coffee capsules for recycling. We will be accepting capsules which are sent to three separate programmes, so they will need to be separated into these three lots: - Nescafé® Dolce Gusto® - L’OR, Moccona, illy or Jed’s coffee (NB Nespresso accepted any month - they are taken to Nespresso in the city)
Saturday 6 June	Small Metal items	(aluminium, copper + other metals) must be clean and dry, and small means they fit into a supermarket bag.
Saturday 4 July	Car batteries	(must be clean dry and not leaking).
Saturday 1 August	Food Grade Silicon
Saturday 5 September	Ewaste	(small and medium devices and appliances excluding TVs and monitors).
Saturday 3 October	Coffee Capsules –	Start collecting your coffee capsules for recycling. We will be accepting capsules which are sent to three separate programmes, so they will need to be separated into these three lots: - Nescafé® Dolce Gusto® - L’OR, Moccona, illy or Jed’s coffee (NB Nespresso accepted any month - they are taken to Nespresso in the city)
Saturday 7 November	Small Metal items	(aluminium, copper + other metals) must be clean and dry, and small means they fit into a supermarket bag.
Saturday 5 December	Car batteries	(must be clean dry and not leaking).