Pegasus Post: January 16, 2018

8 Tuesday January 16 2018
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Your Local Views
Readers respond to
the article about the lack
of rubbish bins at the
New Brighton seaside
playground
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Alexia Chisholm – How
about creating less rubbish? Eat
things that aren’t in packets,
use reusable drink bottles and
bring a lunch box and take it
home to wash. I can’t remember
the last time I had a need to use
a bin in more than 10 years of
taking my kids to playgrounds.
Not the council’s issue, people
need to be less waste-producing.
When the bin is emptied it still
has to go somewhere i.e landfill,
so providing more bins just
encourages more waste.
Carla Williams – Bins
in New Brighton have always
been a problem. A few more
bins is fine but the council
still need to clear them more
often in summer. Recycle and
rubbish bins are needed around
recreational areas.
Clair Louise Mcconchie –
Or hello, put recycling stations
up to protect the environment.
Matt O’Dea – It’s a fantastic
playground. Take your rubbish
home with you and if you want
to use the bin and it’s full don’t
try and jam it in. Remember
our children learn from
our actions so let’s set good
examples.
Gina Thomas – Make it zero
waste; take your own rubbish
home.
Jeremy Maxwell – Maybe
the people should take their
rubbish home with them if the
bins are full, it’s simple really,
people have got so lazy these
days. Maybe a few no littering
signs and maybe fine the offenders
for it. Like I said, it’s easy to
take rubbish with you, but seems
these days it’s council’s problem
for everything.
Jasmin Bruce Ngawai –
Perhaps it’s more about people
taking the rubbish home with
them if it’s full.
Conrad Fitz-Gerald –
Here’s an idea, put more (bins)
in. Should fix the problem. But
knowing the council, it will take
an army of consultants and a
couple of feasibility studies to
work out how many.
William Hutson – It
highlights bad planning. There
should actually be multiple types
of bins. Recycle rubbish and
food.
Chrissi Tukaki – The city
council should use their brains
and employ a caretaker/maintenance
man to protect the
ratepayers’ asset and contract a
security company for evening
and night checks.
Clair Louise Mcconchie
– Put recycling stations up to
protect the environment.
Dee Dawson – Time we
were responsible for our own
choices of purchases and the
subsequent refuse result. Even on
holiday, I take my own rubbish
FULL: Visitors to
the new beachside
playground are leaving
behind more rubbish
than the playground’s
bin can handle. ​
home with me. Rubbish bins
should be for emergency and a
high-need situation.
Helen Young – Rubbish has
always been a problem in New
Brighton, those who come into
Brighton don’t care about the
area and that’s why they leave
their rubbish behind. People
need to remember the old saying
“leave only your footprints behind”.
Time people should think
before dumping their rubbish.
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