Te Maunga Transfer Station is owned and operated by Tauranga City Council, Te Maunga Dump allows you to dispose of the following items here:

• Cans (aluminium and steel)
• Car batteries
• Cardboard
• Clothing and textiles (not shoes or scraps of materials)
• Fire extinguishers (used or unused)
• Gas bottles
• Glass bottles and jars (not window glass or light bulbs)
• Home appliances: fridges or freezers, ovens, dishwashers, microwaves, washing machines and clothes dryers
• Metals
• Mobile phones with batteries
• Oil (5 x 4 litre packs – up to 20 litres max). Waste oil is collected at the waste pit (located at the waste drop off area within the transfer station – separate to the recycling centre). If you bring the oil as part of a load containing waste, the whole load will be charged as waste.
• Paper (newspaper, magazines, office paper, junk mail, envelopes)
• Plastic bottles (numbers 1 and 2 only)

Chargeable Items:

• Car bodies
• Car tyres (charged as general waste with a maximum of 4 per load)
• Concrete-only loads
• Garden waste
• Paint
• TVs