@ "Geoff" #1, pick a side, dick

Just apologise and give her the fine.

btw. 4 international students and 3 kids of her own? Really?

This is really funny. It may not be appropriate for the council contractors to call the Biswell's a "dick" but that's exactly what they are. It's not hard to follow recycling rules.

I feel sorry for the Biswell kids who are probably being teased at school over this. They can thank their Mum for going to the press for that.

@FC_Shaza#61 - If the recycling bins are collected like ours is, it's just the trucks picking up the bins automatically without staff manually emptying the bins. If you put cardboad next to the bins they have to hire extra people to pick this up which defeats the purpose of having the trucks and drives up the cost for rate payers. Why don't you just recycle the cardboard bit by bit each week? That's what we did when we had lots of cardboard packaging from our new furniture. It's not hard.

Get on with It #63

What, Josh Collins did a 3m skid on his new bike? We need to hear more about this one. What sort of bike was it? Did anyone get a video?

Come on man, you can't just leave it at that. The public needs to know!!!

Recycler #62 Yes, kiwi`s are actually quite proud of their rudeness, lack of empathy, cliche sense of perceived humour? They are the perfect group for internet discussions,and i have`nt mentioned the males yet. You have picked this up well after only two years - man i have had 45 years of it.

How long have we had this recycling system? 5 months? Seriously, it doesn't take a genius to figure out not to put glass in with plastics does it?

Seriously? I can think of many things that could have been written on there but weren't. Drink a cup of concrete and harden up lady. The word 'dick', even used in a derogatory manner (my experience is that is usually used in jest), is right up there with being called an 'egg', or a 'wally'. Nothing to curl up and cry about.

This is news??? Good Golly I also heard today that a little girl fed her first pet lamb at the Ohakune Kindy,and then lamb liked it, Johnny Davis fell off his scooter at the Gore Bogan festival, Josh Collins did a 3 metre skid on his new bike at the Balcutha annual skid competition, Kate Lewis won a ribbon for the best poerty at the Eketahuna book club and Mavis Davis won the best cake competition at the Murchison swingers club. Come on what will off shore people think of NZ when they read this about a rubbish bin.

I cannot believe how many commentators think it is acceptable to treat other people like this and call them that. What sort of people are you? Yes, there is a system and people need to follow the rules to make it work but calling someone else a dick is never ever acceptable and especially not whilst doing your job. I have lived in NZ for 2 years and am still surprised how foul-mouthed and rude people are. I saw someone in a car open the door at a red light and drop the rubbish out last week. There are lots of people here who need to sort out their attitudes and get a grip.

The council contractors are useless. We just moved into our new house and had a lot of carboard boxes. Naturally they didn't all fit in the bin so we crushed them and put them in a pile next to the bin. Unfortunately the council guidelines must be followed instead of any form of common sense. So now any recycling that overflows the bins will be found in general rubbish. Moral of the story, council guidelines are more important than the environment,