Reconsidering how waste is disposed of in the Western Bay is in its next phase of development in the Waste Management and Minimisation Plan.
In 2016 the Western Bay of Plenty District Council began reviewing its WMMP and jointly adopted the vision of minimising the amount of waste to landfill with Tauranga City Council.
The reviewed plan will now look at making a change to Council's role in managing the District's waste.
This includes the investigation of a Council-procured waste management contract and overseeing kerbside collection of rubbish and recycling for all residents.
Recently Council has been consulting with different communities about what the future of waste management should look like in the Western Bay.
'One of the key actions from this feedback, which is now open for consultation, is whether the community supports Council investigating the provision of a Council-led kerbside rubbish and recycling service,” says WBPDC.
The Council's current involvement in waste services extends to the provision of education; community recycling and green waste facilities; public refuse bin collections; fly-tipping clean-up and abandoned vehicle collection.
In 2014 and 2015, Tauranga and the Western Bay sent close to 90,000 tonnes of waste to landfill.
'This waste includes a significant quantity of material that, if separated, could be recycled and put to beneficial use.”
'The decision to recycle and compost is made at an individual household level.”
'For example, about 72% of kerbside rubbish collected from households could be recycled or composted instead of being sent to landfill.”
WBPDC say the review is a timely opportunity to investigate options for reducing the amount of waste going to landfill and to take a more active role in protecting the District's environment in an efficient way.
The draft WMMP will go out for consultation from September 22 to October 23, 2017.
Have Your Say days are planned for the week of 30 October, for those who wish to participate.
For more information visit the council website.
8 comments
Smell a rat
Posted on 27-09-2017 07:01 | By Capt_Kaveman
the answer is very simple, everything apart from greenwaste must go through a recycling process, most things i see going over the tip are beds wood cabinets timber gib TVs all this needs to be pull out
rubbish
Posted on 27-09-2017 07:08 | By rosscoo
At what cost to the householder will any new system costs? It is already quite expensive to just get rid of our rubbish. People dumping on side of roads now so how will that stop those people dumping if cost go up??..
Guarantee
Posted on 27-09-2017 08:54 | By The Sage
It is pretty obvious that the Council have an agenda and simply want total control of rubbish collection for their own contractors. I can guarantee that this will end up being more costly and it also takes away freedom of choice. Stick with what we have.
Construction Waste
Posted on 27-09-2017 10:03 | By jh
Every new house built creates 1 or 2 Skip bins of waste going to landfill. Lots of recyclable materials included. Must be a better way.
Govt.
Posted on 27-09-2017 12:07 | By overit
I would love to see the Govt. build a waste incinerator say near Wgtn, where rubbish is burnt at a high heat. There are some in the world. There is no smoke as it double burns(I think) plus produces free heating. Instead of wasting money "lets do this". Rubbish could go by rail.
Open a shop at the dump
Posted on 27-09-2017 13:22 | By The Tomahawk Kid
Open a SHOP at the dump where people can drop off all things that can be recycled before taking the rest to the landfill. Charge for dumping in the landfill by weight (as they do now), but cost can be significantly reduced by dropping stuff off at the shop (no charge).
Rubbish is not expensive!
Posted on 27-09-2017 14:38 | By Sollygirl
For two people, we use a 240L recycling bin, collected fortnightly ($2.43/week), a TCC rubbish bag which takes two weeks to fill ($1.09/week), a cheap-as-chips plastic 240L compost bin from Bunnings ($44.88, lasts 5 years so $0.20/week), we donate or leave old furniture our gate (miraculously disappears, free). Total weekly cost: $3.72, annually $193.44.
Rates increases on the horizon methinks?
Posted on 27-09-2017 16:45 | By stokey
All the commentators have valid points but as with most things proposed by Council, it is just a screen to employ more staff and further increase rates. Personally I recycle 70% of my waste (private contractor), 10% goes into my compost bin, 10% in a big rubbish bin (private contractor) and the rest I take to the green waste facility (council run at exorbitant charges given we also pay for it in our rates). I have no faith in council running anything cost effectively.
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