Your collection days
The new rubbish and recycling service operates five days a week (see the calendars below for detailed dates including during public holidays).
For a leaflet explaining everything you need to know about the service, check it out online here . For answers to common questions, please check out our FAQs page.
How does it work?
The district has been divided into 11 collection zones, each of them allocated a day. If you’re not sure which collection zone you’re in, please go to our Smart Maps system. Enter your address in the address bar in the top left of the page. Click your property on the map. Then click through on the blue arrow on the top right to get your collection area and then your collection day.
Most of the year round collections of rubbish and recycling are based on alternate red and yellow weeks.
Check out your area's calendar at the bottom of this page.
Standard red and yellow weeks
These operate all year around for Thames Coast & Manaia, Thames Rural South and Thames & Surrounds.
For the east coast, Coromandel Town & Te Kōuma and Coromandel Rural North standard red and yellow week collections operate from early February to Christmas.
Red week
Under the standard red and yellow week system, one week is a red week for the collection of general rubbish and food scraps. Please place the following bins on the kerbside.
Yellow week
The next week is a yellow week for the collection of mixed recycling, your glass crate and food scraps. Please place the following bins on the kerbside.
Please note that food scraps will be collected every week.
Your standard collection days
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Day
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Areas
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Monday
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Whangamatā South, Mercury Bay South
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Tuesday
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Whangamatā North, Onemana, Ōpoutere, Whitianga
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Wednesday
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Coromandel Town and Te Kōuma, Coromandel Rural North, Thames Coast and Manāia, Mercury Bay North
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Thursday
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Thames & Surrounds, Thames Rural South, Tairua
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Friday
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Pāuanui
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Standard collection days calendars
You can download the kerbside calendar for your area below.
Printed calendars for standard collections are available at Council offices, Rubbish and Recycling Transfer Stations, information centres and public libraries.
Summer peak services
For the east coast, Coromandel Town & Te Kōuma and Coromandel Rural North special summer peak collections take place between Christmas and early February. Summer peak calendars will be displayed on this website and distributed at Council offices and information centres in December each year.
Further information
If you are unsure which schedule applies to you, contact us and we'll let you know.