e-waste disposal
You can dispose of electronic waste free of charge at Martinborough Transfer Station.
Domestic e-waste items must be complete and unbroken (not damaged or partially disassembled), and includes the following:
- Computers, laptops, tablets, PCs
- Servers, routers, modems, printers
- Hifi stereos, amplifiers
- Video/DVD/CD/tape players, speakers
- Household whiteware, kitchen appliances
- Stoves, microwaves, dishwashers, ovens, vacuum cleaners
- TVs, washing machines, dryers
- Car batteries, workshop tools.
Damaged or disassembled items can be taken to Martinborough Transfer for disposal as waste. Normal waste disposal charges apply.
Commercial quantities of e-waste will not be accepted.
E-waste is transferred to a company in Wellington that strips out all of the recyclables. Recycled computer parts to go back into repairing computers. Any e-waste that is still in working order is also checked and put back into the second-hand market. All the steel components go back into scrap metal recycling.