Container clean up contractor Braemar Howells is reporting the floating and beached waste collected from the wrecked container ship Rena totals more than 2325 tonnes.

This includes 1845 tonnes of solid waste and 25 tonnes of milk powder which has been processed and taken away to landfills.

Clean-up operations on Waihi Beach after containers, timber, milk powder and other debris washed ashore after the January 8 storm. Photo: MNZ.

A further 117 tonnes of liquid waste, consisting mainly of blood washed out from the refrigerated containers on the ship, is being disposed of.

Braemar Howells spokesperson Monique O'Connor says the total tonnage of waste does not include timber from containers on the ship, or timber washed up on beaches.

The liquid waste also does not include oil leaked from the ship.

Some of the waste collected is from areas hit hard by debris when the ship broke apart on the Astrolabe Reef during a storm on January 8, which sent 150 containers overboard.

Monique says about 177 tonnes of waste was collected from Waihi Beach where hundreds of milk powder bags washed up, and a further 77 tonnes from Matakana Island.

The company has now processed more than 120 containers from the ship, which was carrying 1368 containers when it ran aground on the reef on October 5.

The first containers were lost overboard during a storm on October 11.

Then between November 16 and January 8, salvors were able to lift 397 containers from the deck of the Rena.

There is estimated to be 360-400 containers left on the bow of the ship, which remains grounded above water.

In the last week, salvors have been able to lift a further 43 containers from the bow using the crane barge Smit Borneo.

In total, MNZ confirms 684 containers are off the Rena and accounted for.

Braemar is continuing to processess all of the distressed and damaged containers at its specialised processing plant in Truman Lane.

Debris is still washing up on beaches and Monique says fridges are now making an appearance with at least four found.

One has been located on Slipper Island, one on Matakana and two are ashore on the East Cape.

'Small amounts of debris have been found as far north as Slipper Island – this has been confirmed by Maritime New Zealand's clean up team.”