Otago South River Care catchment co-ordinator and farmer Rebecca Begg, of Clydevale, said waste was collected at a best-practice event for two hours in the Cross Recreation Centre carpark in Balclutha last week.
"We were pretty pleased."
The waste collected included nearly 500 plastic drums, 120 feed sacks, 12 tyres, 11 large batteries and a 1-litre container of sharp objects, such as syringes for injecting livestock and combs for shearing sheep.
The waste came from 14 farms in Clutha.
Everything collected at the event was recycled, she said.
The event encouraged people to identify waste on farm and find options to recycle it, rather than disposing of it in other ways, such as burying or dumping it.
A driver for holding the event was farmers having increasing amounts of waste items on their farms.
"They didn’t know what to do with it and we thought, ‘OK, we can make this easier for people’."
A meeting would be held this week to discuss if more similar events would be held.
"There’s a lot of people that are really interested."
An idea floated was holding an event for farmers to get rid of their old tyres by providing an efficient way to collect them.
She thanked those who helped including Clutha District Council waste education officer Scott Martin, Otago regional waste officer Anna Robinson, New Zealand Landcare Trust Otago regional co-ordinator Nicole Foote and CMC Contracting for collecting the drums and Clutha Vets for collecting the syringes.
