Just a small update regarding a bug fix, where previously on some of the map pages, the site footer was appearing on marker listings, obscuring the listings. This has now been fixed!

In other news, the site is now at 3130 markers!

The map page for waste oil recycling is now live. At the time of writing it includes oil recycling locations for about 1/5 of district councils, along with Super Cheap Auto stores that offer an engine oil recycling scheme. Over the coming days I will continue to add more council facilities for oils, along with E-waste and tyres.

3041 to be precise, as of 20/04/25. Big milestone!

Still working on E-Waste, Tyres & Oils across district council facilities. Once this is done, E-Waste and phone recycling available via other schemes will be next on the list!

Car seats, with around 50 locations across the motu, is now live on RecycleMap. The scheme is run by SeatSmart, with many district councils and baby supply shops participating. 70% of the materials in car seats can be recycled (Straps, metals, plastics), but it’s a tricky thing to process, so unfortunately there are usually fees associated with dropping off your old car seats for recycling. The good news it that these fees are often subsidised!

In other news, we’re also now at 2988 marker locations, only 12 more to go until there are 3000 locations live!

The E-waste and electrical items map is now live. I am still populating it, but there is a reasonable amount of markers to make it live. E-Waste pretty much covers anything with a battery or a plug. A sub-category includes old mobile phones. Note that many places have fees for the disposal of E-Waste, but will take phones for free.

In other news, we’re now at 2938 map markers. Very close to 3000 markers across RecycleMap!

Also, Waste Oil recycling and Childrens Car seats are still being worked on in the background. They will be coming soon, once I’ve worked through the majority of council facilities that would take them.

Just under 100 drop off locations are currently live on the newly added Tyres map. Check it out!

Tyres can be dropped off for recycling, free of charge, at these locations because of the Tyrewise stewardship scheme, where the cost of the recycling is included in the purchase of new tyres. Just make sure that your tyres are clean and free of dirt, with their rims removed.

There are now 2792 markers on RecycleMap. I’m still working on adding Council drop off locations for E-Waste, Oils, Tyres, and Paints, it’s slow progress as every councils website is slightly different, with different amounts of information available.

I am however refining the behind the scenes processes, making it quicker and easier to add markers to other map categories, which is great!

I’m hoping to have Tyre recycling locations live and available on RecycleMap by the end of this coming week.

30 more locations added across various Community Recycling Centres throughout the Auckland area. These include new locations for Polystyrene, Batteries and E-Waste! (E-Waste is currently not live, as I’m populating it in the background along with Oils at the moment!)

Anamata, Devonport, Helensville, Manurewa, Onehunga & Tāmaki Community recycling centres added to maps where required (Cardboard, Batteries, polystyrene, Op Shops, Cans & E-Waste)

RecycleMap is now almost 6 months old. What started as a small project to help out my fellow Rotoruans, has turned into something with a national scope. There are currently 12 map categories, and over 2600 map marker locations. The frame of the site is now quite well established, and the site has been averaging a little over 200 visitors a month, with a total of 871 unique visitors since the site went live. I’m quite proud of this number, given that the site has not been actively promoted at this stage!

The next phase of the RecycleMap project will be to add more map categories. These will include waste oils, E-Waste, and child car seats, and probably a few more. The intention is to cycle through all the district councils again, revisiting the Resource Recovery Parks and Transfer stations, to add any other categories that each district covers.

Once that is done, I’ll begin reviewing the existing data, and tightening up the site. As this is going on I’ll also start ramping up promotion of the site to recycling facilities and schemes to help drive traffic to RecycleMap, and hopefully increase the number of location submissions provided. The overarching aim of RecycleMap is to have enough traffic, and enough user participation, that internet-trawling for recycling facilities takes a back seat to “crowd sourced” data.

If you have any thoughts on this, as always, I’d love to hear them!