Top of the South councils back child car seat recycling programme
Two councils in the Top of the South have put their support behind child car seat recycling, by offering subsidies to help make it more affordable and reduce waste. The ...
Read MoreThey 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Up to 90% of seat materials (by weight) are recyclable.
Plastic, metal, harnesses – they can all have a second life.
Two councils in the Top of the South have put their support behind child car seat recycling, by offering subsidies to help make it more affordable and reduce waste. The ...
Read MoreThe SeatSmart programme is growing and changing, with social enterprises set to benefit from work dismantling the ever-increasing volume of child car seats being brought in for recycling around the ...
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