Child car seat recycling a sign of the times
Media release: Just a few years ago there weren’t many people who would think it was possible to recycle a child car seat, much less have an option to actually ...
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Child Car Seat
Recycling
Imagine 40,000 car seats sitting end to end…
They would stretch from Auckland’s Queen Street to Manukau. That’s the minimum number of car seats that expire every year in New Zealand.
Don’t let your expired or damaged car seat end up in landfill or be sold.
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Reasons to recycle
Why recycle your car seat?
There are lots positive environmental and social outcomes from recycling your seat:
– Diverting tonnes of plastic and metal from landfill each year;
– Providing dismantling work for people who have a disability, or are disadvantage or marginalised;
– Improving child safety by raising awareness of seat expiry dates;
– Lowering the use of virgin materials to make new plastic and metal; and
– Providing used materials to be repurposed into new items.
Who dismantles your seats?
From 1 November 2018, we’re moving to paid dismantling for the majority of seats. This is due to increasing volumes and the growing complexity of the seats we collect. We will use two services:
– Social Enterprise – a paid service that provides employment for people who have a disability or are disadvantaged or marginalised; and
– Department of Corrections community work programmes – a free dismantling service providing useful indoor work for offenders, used for a limited number of seats.
The nitty gritty
Is there a cost to recycle?
From 1 November 2018, we will charge our collection sites a fee of $25 incl. GST (recommended retail price) per seat we collect to cover the costs of recycling. What you pay when you take in your seat can vary.
Some of the cost may be covered by your local council which may have chosen to provide a recycling incentive to encourage waste minimisation.
What seats are accepted?
Any brand of booster, convertible seat or capsule.
Sorry, no polystyrene seats, snap and go’s or other car seat acccessories are accepted. Limit of 4 seats per customer.
What materials are in the seats?
Up to 90% of seat materials (by weight) are recyclable.
Plastic, metal, harnesses – they can all have a second life.
News and Views
Child car seat recycling comes to Dunedin
Dunedin has joined an ever-growing list of cities and towns where people can not only recycle things like glass, paper and plastic, but child car seats too. The Dunedin City ...
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