Only 8 more district councils to go before District Council E-Waste, Tyre, Oil and child car seat recycling facilities are on the site! It’s taking a bit of time, but I have also been refining the behind-the-scenes processes, so it’s getting easier to add new locations across categories. The time consuming part is picking through the different websites to make sure I don’t miss any locations!
(If you know of any locations not on the site, please do let me know!)
Doing my evening trawl of council websites for new recycling locations (such an exciting life I lead) and what do I find? A LINK TO RECYCLEMAP!! This marks the first time I’ve come across a link back to the RecycleMap project from a site out there on the internet. I’ve got a warm fuzzy feeling inside!
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.
Added the recycling locations for Wairoa, Waitaki, & Waitomo District Councils. 3 councils to go!(Waipā DC didn’t have any facilities).
Added transfer stations and resource recovery parks for Taupō, Thames-Coromandel & Timaru District Councils, and Tauranga City Council.
Added recycle stations for Stratford, Tararua and Tasman District Councils.
Now at 1793 markers across 9 maps, including 282 Markers for cardboard & paper, 264 for Glass, and 278 for tin cans.
Added South Wairarapa District Council and Southland District Council recycling locations. RecycleMap is now at 1585 location markers across 9 maps!
Happy New Year!
Fixed incorrect markers/categories on the SPCA Op Shops. Also updated the categories for Polystyrene recycling facilities.
Added Spicer Landfill and “Trash Palace” from Porirua to the website.
Added Ōpōtiki and Ōtorohanga District Council map data. Also removed a number of duplicate map markers that had crept in to the database.
Spotted an issue with incorrectly assigned categories for some locations…as in free drop off locations not being identified as free and possibly appearing as having charges. I’m looking in to why this might be as the background data looks no different from the correctly categorised points.