Have your say: pilot of fortnightly rubbish collections

🗑 Aucklanders send around 1.5 million tonnes of rubbish to landfill every year – enough to fill Eden Park every week. Much of it could be recycled or repurposed instead.

Auckland Council is keen for public feedback on a potential pilot of moving to fortnightly rubbish collection. They want to test fortnightly kerbside rubbish collections for 10,000 households in parts of three areas:
📍Te Atatū Peninsula
📍Panmure / Tāmaki
📍Clendon Park and Weymouth

If approved, the trial will run for six months. Rubbish collection in these areas would be fortnightly (every two weeks instead of every week) and keep food scraps collection weekly and recycling collections fortnightly. If approved, the trial will run from late February 2026 until late August 2026. At the end of the trial, participants will return to weekly rubbish collections.

The trial would help council understand:
❓ how households manage with less frequent rubbish collections
❓ what support they might need
❓ what affect this has on reducing waste to landfill.

You can have your say from 9am Monday 13 October - 11.59pm Friday 31 October.

https://akhaveyoursay.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/proposed-fortnightly-rubbish-collection-trial