Tauranga public has dumped 56 tonnes of ‘e-waste' in the third national eDay on Saturday.
It was a similar volume to last year's 57 tonnes, but traffic was much smoother says Environment BOP community relations officer Stephanie Twaddle.

Traffic flow was much improved for eDay '09 compared with last year.

'We had people waiting when we opened,” says Stephanie. 'We had plenty of bays and plenty of volunteers and they had time to take their breaks. It went really well.”
Stephanie says the smaller volume on the day could have been offset by community group deliveries made on Friday.
'A local organisation arranged that and offered to do that in exchange for a food donation for the Katikati foodbank.
'Schools also did their own collections; we had a few come through on Friday.”
At Bay of Plenty collections in Rotorua, Tauranga and Whakatane, 1755 cars disposed of more than 91 tonnes of computer waste.
Nationwide the drive thru recycling event collected more than 966 tonnes of old computer equipment and mobile phones at 31 centres. Last year 946 tonnes were collected.
MPs Simon Bridges and Todd McClay, Tauranga Mayor Stuart Crosby, Western Bay of Plenty District Council Mayor Ross Patterson, and Environment Bay of Plenty Councillor Malcolm Whittaker and Chairman John Cronin volunteered at eDay collections around the region.
The annual event, organised by Computer Access New Zealand, has seen strong growth since it began with just 12 centres in 2007. This year saw more than 82,700 computer items including monitors, CPUs and printers collected for recycling.
Equipment collected on eDay is being transported to Auckland and Dunedin where it will be sorted before being sent to accredited recycling companies in South Korea for recycling. About 95 per cent of the materials in a computer including metals such as copper, lead, zinc, gold and silver can be recycled.
Collectable computers are being auctioned on a special TradeMe charity auction site with all proceeds contributing to the costs of eDay.