Weekly on serviced routes
Rubbish bags
Household rubbish in a tied bag, using one council rubbish sticker for every 5 kg.
Gisborne, New Zealand
Gisborne District Council
rubbish and recycling
Gisborne District Council collects household rubbish and recycling on the same weekday every week along its mapped kerbside routes in Gisborne and Ruatoria.
At a glance
Kerbside services
Service availability can vary by property. Confirm your address with the council before relying on a calendar.
Weekly on the rubbish day
Recycling
Accepted plastics 1, 2 and 5, glass bottles and jars, paper, cardboard, cans and tins in the council-approved recycling bin.
Bin-day rules
Before you put the bins out
- Put rubbish and recycling at the kerb by 7 am.
- A rubbish bag can weigh no more than 20 kg and therefore needs four stickers at that maximum weight.
- Keep food scraps, soft plastics, foil-lined cartons, polystyrene and foam out of the recycling bin.
- The service map includes Ruatoria, but properties away from a confirmed official route are not treated as covered.
Exact dates
Confirm the property
Use the address search above to check the official schedule for this property. You can still compare it with the council's own checker.
Use Gisborne District Council's official information ↗Where this comes from
Official sources
Council service details checked 4 September 2026.
- Kerbside collection days ↗Weekly same-day rubbish and recycling, address map, 7 am set-out time, sticker rules and accepted materials
- Tairāwhiti Maps property search ↗Official address, property and rubbish-day mapping maintained by Gisborne District Council