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More than six litres of household paint is sold each year for each and every person here. That's a lot of paint particularly as much of it is left sitting in paint containers and ends up in landfills. There are lots of ways you can reduce this burden on the environment... here's some ideas to get you started:

Be PaintWise!
Bring unwanted paint and paint containers into your local Resene ColorShop and let us recycle or dispose of them responsibly. Resene will offer good quality Resene paint to community groups for reuse, recycle packaging materials that are recyclable, send solventborne paints to solvent recovery, find alternative uses for waterborne paints, such as graffiti abatement, and dispose of the rest for you.

Selected Resene ColorShops have been designated as Resene PaintWise Collection Centres. Drop off your unwanted paint and paint containers to any of these designated Resene ColorShops at any time during their opening hours.

You are welcome to bring back any brand of decorative paint. For retail customers, Resene branded paint and paint containers are free to return. A small charge applies to non-Resene branded product and trade returns to help offset the costs of the PaintWise programme ($1 per 4L can or smaller, $2.50 per 10L pail or larger). Sorry, we are unable to accept automotive and marine paints.

Resene PaintWise Collection Centres (North Island):
Albany, Cnr Tawa Drive and Rosedale Road, Ph: (09) 414 6500 (view map)
Cambridge, 32 Lake Street, Ph: (07) 823 0170 (view map)
Feilding, 109 Kimbolton Road, Ph: (06) 323 8450 (view map)
Hamilton, Cnr Anglesea, Hood and Knox Streets, Ph: 839-9975 (view map)
Hastings, Cnr Southland Road and Eastbourne Street, Ph: (06) 878 4070 (view map)
Henderson, 30 Paramount Drive, Ph: 836 2366 (view map)
Kapiti, 112 Kapiti Road, Ph: (04) 296 1060 (view map)
Kilbirnie, Cnr Tacy & Kemp Streets, Ph: (04) 387 2916 (view map)
Levin, 292 Oxford Street, Ph: (06) 368 4484 (view map)
Lower Hutt, 465 High Street, Ph: (04) 570 0683 (view map)
Manukau, Sharkey Street, Ph: 262 1705 (view map)
Masterton, Cnr Queen and Renall Streets, Ph: (06) 377 2542 (view map)
Mt Eden, 126 Valley Road, Ph: 623 3950 (view map)
Mt Roskill, 72 Carr Road, Ph: 620 5714 (view map)
Naenae, Cnr Naenae Road and Vogel Street, Ph: (04) 577 8155 (view map)
Napier, 116 Taradale Road, Ph: (06) 843 1710 (view map)
New Lynn, 24 Clark Street, Ph: 827 6877 (view map)
Newmarket, Cnr Crowhurst and Teed Streets, Ph: (09) 529 4760 (view map)
Onehunga, 56 Princes Street, Ph: (09) 636 4105 (view map)
Palmerston North, 407 Ferguson Street, Ph: (06) 357 3052 (view map)
Panmure, 45A Mt Wellington Highway, Ph: (09) 570 4235 (view map)
Porirua, Lyttelton Ave, Ph: (04) 237 7954
Pukekohe, 54 Seddon Street, Ph: (09) 237 1022 (view map)
Rotorua, 10 - 12 Old Taupo Road, Ph: (07) 348 1883 (view map)
Silverdale, Cnr State Highway 1 and East Coast Road, Ph: 427 9560 (view map)
Takanini, Cnr 228 Great South & Glenora Roads, Ph: 296 1959 (view map)
Taupo, Totara Point Retail Centre off Spa Road, ph: (07) 378 1500 (view map)
Tauranga, 47 Waihi Road, Ph: (07) 578 4169 (view map)
Te Awamutu, Unit 1, Cnr Albert Park Drive and Cambridge Road, Ph: (07) 871 7020 (view map)
Te Rapa, 671 Te Rapa Road, Ph: (07) 850 5472 (view map)
Thorndon, 223 Thorndon Quay, Ph: (04) 471 1112 (view map)
Upper Hutt, Cnr Fergusson Drive and Montgomery Crescent, Ph: (04) 526 4946 (view map)
Wairau Park, 8 Croftfield Lane, Ph: 444 4387 (view map)
Wanganui, 17 Wilson Street, Ph: (06) 348 0048 (view map)
Whangarei, 22 Reyburn Street, Ph: (09) 430 2199 (view map)

Resene PaintWise Collection Centres (South Island):
Addington, 351 Selwyn Street, Ph: (03) 338 1312 (view map)
Ashburton, 327 Burnett Street, Ph: (03) 307 6510 (view map)
Blenheim, Cnr McArtney and Redwood Streets, Ph: (03) 577 9200 (view map)
Christchurch, 256 Cashel Street, Ph: (03) 366 7441 (view map)
Dunedin, 172 Crawford Street, Ph: (03) 477 6566 (view map)
Ferrymead, 955 Ferry Road, Ph: (03) 376 4901 (view map)
Invercargill, 25 Victoria Avenue, Ph: (03) 218 2385 (view map)
Nelson, 75 Haven Road, Ph: (03) 548 7110 (view map)
New Brighton, Cnr Oram Avenue and Beresford Street, Ph: (03) 388 8255 (view map)
Northwood, Unit E3, Northwood Supa Centre, Main Road North, Christchurch, Ph: (03) 323 4492 (view map)
Oamaru, 190 Thames Street, Ph: (03) 433 1211 (view map)
Queenstown, 87 Gorge Road, Ph; (03) 442 4152 (view map)
Shirley, 38 Marshland Road, Ph: (03) 385 5082 (view map)
Timaru, 8 Elizabeth Street, Ph: (03) 688 4723 (view map)
Tower Junction, Unit 8-9 Whiteleigh Ave, Ph: (03) 343 3990 (view map)

Due to safety requirements, paint and paint containers will only be accepted at these Resene ColorShops during normal store hours. Sorry, paint and packaging returns cannot be accepted by any other ColorShops.

When dropping off paint and paint containers:

  • Ensure paint is in its original correctly labelled container.
  • Ensure containers are well sealed and will not leak.
  • Leave small amounts of waterborne paint in its container, put out of reach of children and leave the lid off for the paint to dry then bring it in to one of the Resene ColorShops detailed above.

We cannot accept: Paint thinners, solvents, aerosols or any other materials - dispose of these at a HazMobile collection or contact your local council for recommended disposal.

The Resene PaintWise programme is managed by the Resene Foundation, a charitable trust underwritten by Resene. The ongoing service is funded by Resene, a PaintWise levy of 15c per litre on retail purchases on Resene paints and a levy on returns of non-Resene branded paint and trade returns.

Our thanks go to Adshel for supporting Resene PaintWise with bus shelter advertising.

Resene PaintWise aims to return good condition paint back to the community for use by non-profit community groups