Rubbish and Recycling

Enter your address in the search tool to find out when your next rubbish and recycling day is.

Use this online form if your bin was not emptied, you would like to make a change, or there is some other problem.

Find out about Council’s residential rubbish and recycling collection.

Find out what you can do to reduce the waste you produce at home and at work. We can all do our part to reduce, reuse, and recycle.

What happens once your recycling gets collected.

Find out about our process for managing recycling contamination.

Find out where your recycling goes and what happens to it at the processing plant.

Find out about the fees and charges for Hutt City landfills.

Save money when you drop off recycling at Silverstream Landfill's Zero Waste Hub!

Find out where you can take clean fill material.

Find out how to safely dispose of hazardous waste.

Find out the penalties for littering and dumping rubbish in Lower Hutt.

The Solid Waste Management and Minimisation Bylaw 2020 helps us manage waste in Hutt City.

Lower Hutt events expecting 1000 or more attendees must submit a Waste Minimisation Plan to Hutt City Council for approval.

Introducing the Wellington Region Waste Management and Minimisation Plan 2023-2029 (WMMP): a mission to transition our city and the Wellington region to a circular economy over the next six years and beyond.