The Star: January 23, 2020

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NEWS
• By Louis Day
IT WILL cost just over $4000
a week for the city council to
inspect recycling bins across
the city and Banks Peninsula.
The 12-week recycling initiative,
which involves a team
of four inspecting up 7500
recycling bins a week, will
cost $50,000 in total.
The bin check project
which started this week aims
to reduce the more than 4000
tonnes of material put into
yellow bins
and sent to
landfill last
year.
In 2019,
4445 tonnes
of the 36,465
tonnes of
material put
into yellow bins was sent to
landfill due to contamination.
Throughout the project, a
gold sticker will be placed on
bins with the correct material
in them. Residents with the
incorrect material in their
bins will have educational
information left in their
mailbox.
City council solid waste
manager Ross Trotter said
the main goal of the project
was to reduce the amount
of contamination going into
yellow bins.
“The reason why we are
putting so much effort into
this is because we want to ensure
that we recycle as much
as possible,” he said.
“The companies that take
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Bin check will cost $50k
Ross Trotter
GET IT RIGHT: The city council has started sorting
through recycling bins throughout the city and
Banks Peninsula.
our recyclable material
have a low threshold for
contamination. If a load has
too much of the wrong stuff
in it, they will simply reject it
and it will be sent to landfill.
THE RIGHT ITEMS TO RECYCLE:
Cardboard
Aluminium cans
Clear and coloured glass bottles and jars
Metal tins
Plastic containers
Aerosol cans
Paper
Plastic bottles
Empty cleaning containers
App trial to
track down
elusive smell
A CAUSE of a mysterious smell
– likened to rotting fish or dead
animals – in the eastern suburbs
could be pinpointed soon.
Residents have been complaining
about the stench for years, but
so far the cause of the smell in
Bromley, Linwood and Woolston
remains elusive, with authorities
saying it could be a range of things
such as industrial sites or the Avon
Heathcote Estuary.
But pinpointing the source
could be on the way, with
Environment Canterbury trialling
apps for residents to report the
smell as soon as they catch a whiff.
Woolston resident Karyn Fallon
said the smell had been around
for as long as she could remember.
“It’s almost like a sulphur sort
of smell. It’s very dependent on
the wind. I’m not very good with
directions but whichever way it
needs to blow, if it’s blowing this
way we do get it really strongly,”
she said.
She has lived in the city’s eastern
suburbs for 23 years and said she
had always thought it was the city’s
oxidation ponds – but now she’s
not so sure.
ECan started a programme
to look at odours about 12
months ago in efforts to solve
the mystery.
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