Residents face long wait from wheelie bin delivery to collection
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It will be a case of look but don't touch with Christchurch's new wheelie bins.
The recycling bins will be delivered to households next month but they will not be picked up until February next year.
To ensure there is no premature recycling, the lid will be sealed with a plastic strip, stamped with the starting date of the service.
Christchurch City Council water and waste manager Mark Christison said the early delivery was forced on the council by the scale of the exercise.
"The logistics of delivering 400,000 bins to 133,000 homes throughout Christchurch make it impractical to deliver all three bins at once," he said.
"The Christmas summer holiday has meant the only viable option was to split the bin rollout."
The new recycling bins will also mean new rules for residents.
"We no longer want residents to put paper into plastic bags but rather just place the folded papers straight into the bin, and we don't want plastic bottles and milk cartons to be crushed," Christison said.
"Instead, we want these to be thoroughly washed out and the tops put back on bottles."
Christison said this was so the state-of-the-art recovery plant at Parkhouse Road in Sockburn, which would open in late January, could accurately sort the recyclables using 3D screening and optical sorting.
The organics and rubbish bins will be delivered from the end of January, with a staged introduction of the service in March.
Christison said people who continually put out "contaminated" bins risked being barred from collections.
- © Fairfax NZ News
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hurray bout time we caught up with the rest of the world you will never plese everyone leave them in th dark ages
This new scheme is utter madness.
How many citizens have room for three large bins?
How many citizens can handle a bin when full?
And so much for waste minmisation....
It appears to be entirely for the convienence of the one large company that won the contract.
There is no one at the council, staff or elected representatives, who are prepared to stand up and justify their decision.
Stand up Christchurch and tell them where to stick the bins...
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Makes you wonder where those in the over 60's units are going to put them, let alone those that have not got any space whatsover to spare. They had this sort of scheme in Australia well over 20 years ago, and I can see the benefits as theorectically you'd only be putting out the bins once full? so less often?. Article doesn't really explain how those with disabititlies are going to negotiate multiple trips down the driveway with multiple bins.