Recent news reports have highlighted a troubling start to 2025 for Auckland’s waste trucks, with five rubbish and recycling truck fires occurring in the first two weeks of January.
These fires have been sparked by batteries discarded in household bins across Auckland, additionally, the Auckland recycling facility that manages all kerbside recycling in the region experiences one or two minor fires weekly, primarily due to lithium-ion batteries. You can learn more on OurAuckland.
At Grey Lynn Community Centre, we're committed to help reduce waste and provide solutions that make it easy for our community to dispose of items such as soft plastics and batteries, quickly, easily, and more importantly at no cost.
Whilst battery recycling is not a new service to us at GLCC, we did last year upgrade to a newer service with Phoenix Recycling Group, allowing us to have a state of the art collection point complete with fire suppression located directly in the foyer of the centre.
You can now bring a range of household batteries to the centre for us to send off to Phoenix Recycling to ensure these are sent away for handling to the correct providers check out this page to learn what you can and can't drop into our recycling bin.
Need to recycle bigger batteries? No Problem, just reach out to us and we will work with you to make sure these get to the right place.
