All participating Resene ColorShops, Dulux paint centres, and Guthrie Bowron stores have now been added to the paint and paint container recycling map!
All participating Resene ColorShops, Dulux paint centres, and Guthrie Bowron stores have now been added to the paint and paint container recycling map!
Markers are now being added to a new map category for Paint, and paint containers!
Additional text has been added to the Op Shop category page, advising visitors that Op Shops require dropped off goods to be in good, saleable condition. Damaged, soiled and broken items end up having to be dumped at the landfill, which ultimately costs the charities to do so!
An acknowledgment section has also been added as a footer to the Op Shop map page, thanking the various charities that have kindly granted permission to use their logos or icons as map markers.
All 80+ Mitre 10 stores have now been added to the plastic plant pot recycling map. This brings the total number of plant pot recycling locations available to 115. There are some subtle differences between Bunnings and Mitre 10 in terms of what is accepted for recycling, but both primarily are focused on clean plastic plant pots that have the #5 recycling logo on them. Mitre 10 will also take the plastic pot labels, whilst Bunnings does not (but they do take plastic stakes!)
31 Bunnings stores across the motu have been added to the plastic plant pot recycling map.
They “accept plastic plant packaging made from polypropylene plastic 5 (otherwise known as PP5). This includes all sizes of plant pots and stakes. Plant labels, even those made from PP5, cannot be recycled.”
All St Vincent de Paul Op Shops (Vinnies) have now been added to the Op Shop map category, bringing the total Op Shop markers to 601. This is all major Op Shop charities and organisations now represented on RecycleMap. There are just the smaller independent Op Shops to be added now. If you know of any that aren’t on the website, please do let me know!
The current total of markers on RecycleMap is now 2382!
All Salvation Army Family Stores have now been added to the Op Shop category. This rounds out the Op Shop markers to a nice round 500!
In total, RecycleMap now has 2281 marker locations and counting!
I’ve added a new category – “Temporarily Unavailable” for locations that for whatever reason, are temporarily not in service. It has its own marker icon: 
In other news, I am currently working on some performance improvements:
These are just a few of the things being worked on in the background.