Feedback for Western Bay of Plenty District Council.

I am a responsible citizen of Tauranga City and recycle paper, cardboard, tins, plastic containers and glass – clear, brown and green – to separate bins at Maleme St recycle depot. They also gladly take egg cartons and give them to foodbank.

Tauranga City has distributed blue bins for glass collection every fortnight.

All colours of glass jars and bottles go in together and would then have to be sorted by colour, or are they?

Citizens are charged $26 annually for this service on their rates. Seems fair, except when you don't use their bins.

Upon phoning council I found there was no exception for doing my own recycling.

I am still being charged $26. It seems one size fits all.

I asked them to pick up my bin which I don't need.

B Beck