Wellington's council rethinks recycling

We shouldnt bury glass. Who knows when that land will be needed for something? Why is it uneconomic to send glass to be recycled? Are we using the wrong model here? Shouldnt we be sophuisticated enought to want to get rid of rubbish no matter what? Instaead of resorting to silly, head in the sand pseudo solutions?

Sewerage and rubbish: we should always be mondful of how we dispose of them, and devoter more energy and time to finding out how to do this. IAn Dodds

Prendegast said tonight on the news that the recycling trucks on the road cause more pollution than is saved by recycling. Where are all these trucks? We get one a week.

She said recycling stations will be set up for people to take their recycling to. I reckon a truck will probably hold 500 household recycling. Tell me how 500 cars driving to a recycling center causes less pollution that one truck?

Sounds like cost cutting to me. Prepare for a recycling levy everyone.

-KENT

Well done wellington, another backwards step.

I'm sorry, can you tell me why we pay rates ?????

Auckland has smaller sized wheelie bins in some places for recycling i think, which i thought was a good idea. In windy wellington its ridiculous how many things you can put out for recycling that ends up in someones garden an hour later. We need recycling bins with lids at least. Something that will hold it in!

Why do we assume that it makes environmental sense burning diesel to ship low value glass to Auckland? What's wrong with landfilling? Glass is non-toxic, and is the Earth running out of silicon dioxide??

What about using different coloured sacks like the yellow all purpose ones? Green for paper, blue for plastic etc. When they get full you can leave them out on your re-cycle collection day. They have to be free and they have to tie up at the top. Wheelie bins in the UK were great except in some streets there was nowhere for residents to keep them and they were a real eye-sore. They actually polluted the environment.

You can bet this will be nothing more than a way for the council to introduce recycling user charges and stupid fines for wonky bin lids which is what they have in the UK. In London you can be fined 50 pounds for dropping an apple core. And car inspections at the tip, no thanks. One solution would be to stop places like New world wrapping things like bananas in plastic. If you stop excessive waste at its source you wouldn't need recycling, except on your compost heap with veg waste.

Yeah, right, all good ideas. Make it hard, impose fines for dumping rubbish, do car inspections. And people will just tip it over the bank. Then we can employ more people to clean it up. Over and above those required for implementing the fines and inspections.

Or make it easy and cheap to dispose of rubbish, like most other councils successfully do. Even they have free sections for those prohibited items, as well as other recyclables, for people friendly. Of which I have yet to see in Wellingtons dumps. Win win deal for the council - and rate payers. Actually one and the same. Council are employees of the rate payers. Surprise !

Absolutely positively Wellington City Council.

YES! Do away with the STUPID Green Bins... the amount of rubbish "recyling" makes is absurd! Every day after recycling day you see rubbish strewn round the streets from bins being blown round. It is worse for the environment than recycling is! There must be a better solution.