@ DGM. Having rights to kerbside recycling is not determined by luck. It is plain commonsense. Such commonsense would also include giving residents enough room to actually place their recycling to promote the scheme. We used to have 70L bins, and even they were too small, blew away in the wind strewing rubbing everywhere, and led to more recycling being put in the general waste bin than actually being recycled.

Do it once. Do it right.

@ matthew #19 I lived most of my life in wgtn. that is exactly why I made the comment. My first bin lasted about a week before it dissapeared on a windy day. The wind in marlborough is about the same as wgtns in the summer. I once had a bin blow across the road into the path of my car this got jammed underneath and was a pain in the arse to remove not to mention the damage to the front of my car. Our street in newtown was a a mess with unsecured recycling constantly. my comments were not ment to be recieved as a winge more as constructive critisism from personal experience. I applaude the MDC for kerbside recycling I only wish that they would make a bit more of an effort and not make the same mistakes that some of earlier regions experienced. Some regions have observed these mistakes and implemented a far more efficient system.

To the people calling us 'whiners', we have every right to be. It has taken YEARS to finally get the Marlborough District Council to get with the rest of the developed world. We are paying for this out of our rates. In turn they take our recycling, then sell it back to us. This is creating jobs and money. These bins are a pathetic attempt to control short term financial loss. Typical NZ, slapping a old band aid on it, instead of stepping up and doing it properly.

ROFL @ dave #17! Ah Dave... We have had them in Wellington for years now.. I can assure you the wind up here is worse too. Get a life and stop your whinging!

To all you knockers....What a pack of negative whingers....typical outlook from a load of ungrateful community citizens...thank goodness you are in the minority...think yourself lucky to have a curbside scheme in place along with a very efficient recycling centre....give the scheme a go and instead of complaining about it get in behind it and help make it work....try and become a positive community member for a change....

these bins are rediculous with the wind we have here in blenheim they will have blown away by the time you get home from work. thousands of people had this problem in wgtn and you have to buy a replacement. not to mention they just are not big enough as for those people who think that if you put your xtra recycling in a bag next to it then you obviously did not read the article. the council have stated if you do this it will not be collected. another half hearted approach from the mdc. when this scheme fails it will end up being another waste of rate payer money.

@ Carolyn Cook

Actually Carolyn, Chch City Council uses wheelie bins for recycling, which would be a far better solution. If you have to still take recycling to the recycling station due to overflow, what is the point of having kerbside recycling? We may as well carry on with the status quo, and save $70 p.a. off our already over inflated rates.

In CHCH the 240litre bins are $90 PA for collection

These crates are hopeless. I have used them before, people overfill them, and as they don't have lids, on windy days rubbish gets blown about leaving the streets in a mess, which residents are then forced to clean up.

In other towns I have seen small wheelie bins used. These have different coloured lids and rubbish is sorted by type. Easy to sort, move, and no mess at all. Much more suitable.

I agree with #8, we are in Wellington and all the overflow we put into plastic bags and it's collected as even with only 2 people we generate more recycling than the container in a week. I think it's poor form the council are trying to restrict peoples recycling efforts to one container a week, most people will put the overflow into the bin rather than drive to a recycling station.