Home News Opinion Videos Blogs Features Family Notices Classifieds Photos Events Clubs Advertising Contact
Sport Focus on the Land Entertainment
Editorials Columns Letters
News Market Place
Little blue triangles are circling to land
Saturday, September 15, 2012
CHANGES in dealing with waste for rural people in the Gisborne district march on.

This week stickers have been posted to all people living within 15 kilometres of a rural transfer station.

In the envelope are 13 stickers with a pamphlet on how changes will work, but not the 17 stickers mentioned in the pamphlet.

The remaining four will arrive with the October rates invoice.

The changes are part of Gisborne District Council’s move towards a user-pays system, similar to what happens in the city and in many other towns and rural areas in New Zealand.

“The user-pays system in Gisborne has been successful. Over the past decade, less rubbish has been going to landfill and recycling has increased. Most households manage with their allocation of one sticker per week” said council waste officer Dave Hadfield.

People who rent homes should ask their landlords for the stickers for that property.

There are retail outlets for extra stickers in each township, in most cases the local store.

Workplaces, community groups, sports clubs, marae and schools will all need to buy stickers, as they are not rated to cover the cost of rubbish disposal.

Stickers will not be for sale at the transfer station, so anyone arriving without stickers will have to make another trip.

From Monday October 1, all waste going into the rural transfer stations, both in bags and on trailers, will have to be stickered.

Pamphlets about the changes are also available from the community caretakers.

As well as explaining the number of stickers that various amounts of rubbish will need, they also give the new opening hours of each transfer station.

Access to the rural transfer stations is restricted to the operating hours. There will no longer be a free access gate.

To make this fair, all communities have been given eight hours of opening a week.

Waiapu is open for two hours every day. The hours will be reviewed after six months.
STICKERS FOR RURAL WASTE: Gisborne District Council’s Kate Creswell organises the mail-out of stickers to all people living within 15 kilometres of a rural transfer station. Picture by Paul Rickard
Comments
No comments - be the first to comment
Poll

Do you agree with a bid to pull bridge jumpers away from unsafe road bridges in the city by building “bombing platforms” for youngsters in safe places along the Turanganui River?

Please read: Call for ‘bombing platforms’
Yes
No
Don't Know
Send in your
News
Letters
Columns
Events
Clubs
Classifieds
Poll suggestions
Explore The Gisborne Herald
News Editorial Features Events
Sport Letters to the Editor Family Notices Clubs
Focus on the Land Columns Classifieds Advertising
News Features Polls Photos Contact
64 Gladstone Road, PO Box 1143, Gisborne, New Zealand | Ph: +64 6 869 0600 | Fax: +64 6 869 0643 (editorial) | Fax: +64 6 869 0644 (advertising) | News Hotline: 0800 NEWSLINE (639 754) | info@gisborneherald.co.nz Copyright © The Gisborne Herald