Get some free mulch

With the autumn gardening season in full swing, we're offering mulch for free at all of our Refuse Transfer Stations (RTS).

All you have to do is show up with a trailer or ute, a spade, and you can help yourself.

Enquire at the RTS kiosk if you wish to pay the small fee to have the RTS loader fill your trailer with mulch.

Our RTS hours and locations are on our website at www.tcdc.govt.nz/rts

Help feed our biosolids composter

And, if you've been doing that autumn gardening and have some clippings to dispose of, our biosolids composter in Whitianga is hungry for green waste.

This green waste includes:

• Freshly dug weeds that are soil-free;

• Hedge clippings and leafy small branches;

• Fresh lawn clippings.

We will take these free of charge if you deliver them to us at our greenwaste drop-off site at 48 Moewai Rd, Whitianga, by the wastewater treatment plant.

The composter uses a mix of biosolids - the 'solids' that are screened out of the wastewater treatment process and then dried – with soil-free green waste.

The result is certified Grade Aa compost - which is the safest and highest quality compost possible using biosolids according to the New Zealand Biosolids Guidelines.

Bring useable green waste directly to our site adjacent to the composter at 48 Moewai Rd on Wednesdays from 10am-12 noon and Saturdays and Sundays between 10am and 3pm. We're going to review these drop-off times and and publicise any changes.

What we don't want:

• Green waste with soil in it

• Branches that are more than 100mm in diameter

• Branches that have no leaves attached

• Flaxes

• Root balls

• Browned, old lawn clippings or green waste that has gone soft or slimy

• Lumps of concrete, large bits of wood, and any rubbish

• Remember - Plastic, cardboard and other household rubbish should go into your recycling bin or our official blue rubbish bags.

To find out more about our biosolids composter, go to www.tcdc.govt.nz/biosolidcomposter

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