Waste Services

Water & Waste's waste and recycling services and facilities aim to minimise waste disposal to landfill through applying waste recovery techniques which gain optimum recovery of reusable and recyclable materials

Water & Waste operates a MRF (Materials Recovery Facility), four(4) Waste Transfer Stations, and a Buy Back Shop. Through these facilities materials such as:

• Garden Waste
• Metals
• Recyclable Materials - Steel Cans, Aluminium Cans, Plastics, Glass, Paper & Cardboard
• Reusable Household Materials/Items
• Reusable Building Materials

...are recovered from the waste stream and either recycled or reused.

Click here for information on Water & Waste's Materials Recovery Facility.

Click here for information on Water & Waste's Transfer Stations.

Click here to find out more about the Buy Back Shop.

In addition to the above recovery procedures, household putrescible (compostable) waste is treated at the Portsmith Waste Disposal Facility and turned into compost.

The overall outcome from these recovery and processing procedures in waste services can only be achieved through a concerted effort from the community to:

• REDUCE waste to landfill
• REUSE items, instead of discarding them
• RECYCLE and save resources, by having them reproduced into new products

Click here to find out more about how to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.

Click here to find out more with our Frequently Asked Questions & Answers