Echo e-waste community collection days
2degrees has partnered with Echo to host six e-waste community collection days across Auckland and Wellington. These drive-through e-waste community collection days provide an opportunity for locals to divert their old or unwanted electronics, helping them from ending up in landfill. Simply drive up, stay in your car, and our team will take care of the rest.
Auckland collection days
Wellington collection days
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Items not accepted:
Vapes, CRT TVs & CRT Monitors, Electric Blankets, CDs & DVDs, Floppy Discs, LED & Household Lightbulbs, LPG Gas Bottles, Other hazardous waste e.g. paint, garden waste or general chemicals, furniture e.g. TV cabinets, medical devices or glass.
Simply drive up, stay in your car, and the Echo team will take care of the rest, with no cost to you - thanks to the support of 2degrees.
Most local councils in New Zealand will not allow you to dispose of e-waste in your curbside rubbish bin. It is recommended you include all domestic e-waste in your inorganic collection, donate it to a community op shop, or recycle it via an e-waste recycler such as Echo. Sending old or unwated technology to landfill has a negative impact on the surrounding environment, and means recoverable materials within those devices cannot be recovered.
Our e-waste partner, Echo, use a technical approach, first identifying as much equipment as possible for re-use. These items are data sanitised, tested and refurbished before being circulated back within the community. Equipment that cannot be reused is prepared, dismantled and processed for recycling using state-of-the-art technology at their sites in Wellington and Auckland.
Data security is our top priority. Echo follow strict data destruction protocols to erase all personal information from devices before they are refurbished or recycled. Echo's processes are compliant with the highest levels of international data erasure, ensuring your information is securely handled and completely destroyed. If the item you are dropping off contains a detachable memory card, USB stick etc, please remove this from your device and hand that to one of our team directly. This has its own method of disposal which will ensure your data, photos etc are safely destroyed.
