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Most Coromandel townships will begin receiving additional rubbish and recycling collections starting from this Friday.

This will then change from fortnightly recycling collections to weekly collections as well as extra weekly collection days.

To view rubbish and recycling collection days for your area click on the slideshow above. Images: TCDC

Summer vacation hotspots including Whangamata and Pauanui will have three collection days each week while others, such as Matarangi, Whitianga, Onemana, Opoutere and Tairua, will receive two collections each week for the summer peak collection period.

The summer Kerbside peak period runs from Boxing Day all the way until the last day of January. There will be no collections on Christmas Day 25 December.

But the Thames Coromandel District Council says the only town with no change over the summer is Thames.

Weekly blue bag and fortnightly black bin and green crate collections will continue with the normal routine.

'If you plan to leave before your collection day, don't put your rubbish on the street because animals and birds get into the bags,” says council. 'Your rubbish and personal information will be strewn around the streets.”

'Drop your official blue bags and recycling at any of our Refuse Transfer Stations at no extra charge. We'd much rather that than have the Coromandel look like a giant tip.”

Tear-off pads with local Kerbside collection information are available at local outlets around the Coromandel.

Signs and posters are also prominently displayed at all peak vacation areas with additional collections.

'To make things even easier, we're posting Kerbside collection information every day on our Facebook page and will continue to do that each day until the middle of February.”

View the daily schedule at: www.facebook.com/ThamesCoromandelDistrictCouncil or view the slideshow above to see collection days for your area.