Recycling shipshape at Havelock Marina

A recycling hub has been installed at Havelock Marina as Port Marlborough gets its sustainability game shipshape.

The ‘‘comprehensive recycling facility’’ will accept glass bottles and jars, plastic, cans, and paper and cardboard. Previously, recycling was limited to waste oil and aluminium cans.

Port Marlborough commercial and marinas manager Anouk Euzeby said recycling capabilities were being extended at Picton, Waikawa and Havelock.

The port introduced a glass recycling skip bin in Picton Marina in December.

‘‘There are additional costs for us to provide these facilities, but ultimately it is about doing the right thing for our environment, and ... becoming a sustainable port,’’ Euzeby said.

Before the recycling hub in Havelock, the marina provided rubbish facilities in the form of 35 wheelie bins at the end of the jetties and launching ramp.

The new hub, partly funded by a Glass Packaging Forum grant of $10,000, includes a custom-built recycling container, access control and CCTV surveillance.

Havelock Marina is the second largest in the region, providing 370 berths and storage for 175 trailer boats as well as providing berth, wharf and land-side facilities to service the aquaculture, tourism, forestry and barging operations in the Pelorus Sound.

Glass Packaging Forum scheme manager Dominic Salmon said the primary function of the forum was funding projects that would result in new glass, which would not have otherwise been diverted from landfill, being recycled.