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Our Mission

Zero Waste Hubs are part of an alternative waste infrastructure. We divert goods and materials from landfills and breathe new life into reusable resources to bring valuable, high-quality products to our local communities at affordable prices.

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Our kaupapa

Te Kore, in Māori tradition, represents the realm of infinite potential - the place where everything exists as possibility just waiting to be realised. What the modern world calls “waste” is the perfect embodiment of Te Kore. It is only labelled “waste” because we have failed to recognise and harness its abundant potential. At the Zero Waste Hubs, waste is never wasted.

We stand for fulfilling waste’s potential through repair, reuse, redesign, and recycling.

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The Wairau Zero Waste Hub is proud to receive, process and distribute reusable goods recovered from Auckland Council’s Inorganic Collection Service.

We invite marae, schools, community organisations, charities, up-cyclers and re-users to collect recovered items — such as furniture, toys, bikes, cookware, whiteware and electrical appliances — free of charge from our warehouses. Please note: items can only be taken for reuse or upcycling, not recycling.

To become an Approved Collector of recovered items from our Wairau and Tāmaki Zero Waste Hubs please register here. 

Saving Auckland’s inorganics from landfill

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Our impact

In 2025, Wairau Zero Waste Hub:

  • Received 645,798 kgs of goods from the Auckland Council Inorganic Collection Service

  • Distributed 49,674 kgs of reusable items back out to the community

  • Diverted 590,466 kgs of materials from landfill

Since our Tāmaki and Wairau Zero Waste Hubs started operating in 2023, we’ve:

  • Distributed 465,000 kgs of reusable items to the community. That’s equivalent to 116 Asian elephants — or 93,000 pumpkins! 

Visit our other Zero Waste Hubs

 

Tāmaki Zero Waste Hub
Reuse shop, recycling services and Inorganics distribution.
153 Pilkington Road, Glen Innes, Auckland 1072
Open Thur - Sat: 9am - 3pm

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Whangaparāoa Zero Waste Hub
Open to the public for reuse and recycling drop-off services. 
637 Whangaparāoa Road, Auckland 0932.
Open Thurs - Mon: 8.30am - 4pm

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