What you can and can't recycle in Wellington

Have a look at the list below and answer these questions. Talk about it with your parents.

What do we recycle at school?

What do you do, or what can you do, at home to help stop plastics and other rubbish getting into the ocean?

Why does recycling matter?

What you can and can’t recycle in Wellington

A note about paper

You can recycle paper of any kind, unless it:

• is waxed or foil-backed
• has plastic or food on it.

Recyclable materials	Examples
Paper and cardboard	newspapers and magazines egg cartons office paper and envelopes junk mail cereal boxes toilet paper rolls cardboard boxes, including pizza boxes (but remove pizza scraps) brown corrugated cardboard
Plastic - grades 1 - 7, excluding polystyrene	drink bottles food containers cleaning product containers plastic trays empty plastic bags
Tins and cans	aluminium drinking cans food tins pet food tins
Glass	glass bottles and jars

Don't put these in your kerbside recycling	Examples
Aerosols	fly spray spray deodorant cream cans
General waste	food and liquid cloth or clothing bottle and jar lids
Wax-coated or lined cartons	milk and juice cartons
Specific types of plastic and metallic wrap and packaging	polystyrene bubble wrap glad wrap tin foil meat trays (polystyrene)
Green waste	lawn clippings weeds
Specific types of glass	broken glass ceramics drinking glasses and cups glass bricks light bulbs and fluorescent tubes medical and lab glass containers mirrors Pyrex tv tubes and computer screens vases and ornamental glass window glass
Hazardous items	sharp objects medical syringes batteries paint and oil all types of gas bottles / cylinders