Rubbish & Recycling

You can take your rubbish & recycling to the resource recovery parks located in Twizel, Fairlie and Lake Tekapo. At these parks, you can drop off residual waste, green waste and recyclable items including scrap metals, e-scrap (TV’s, computers and other electronic items) and domestic quantities of oil, paint and herbicides.

The resource recovery park opening hours are detailed below. You can also click here for a list of fees and charges.

Please click here for a full list of what can be recycled, wheelie bin pick up times, and more.

All recovery parks are closed Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Years Day, 2nd January, Good Friday and Anzac Day.

Fairlie

Dobson View Road

Tue & Thu – 2:30 to 4:30pm
Sat & Sun – 12:30 to 4:30pm

Lake Tekapo

Murray Place

Wed – 10am to 4:30pm
Sun – 9am to 11:30am

Twizel

Hooker Crescent

Mon to Sun – 12 to 4pm

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