Nor'West News: February 04, 2020

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Council supports plan
to increase landfill levies
THE CITY Council is supporting
a move by the Government
to increase the levy rates for
landfills.
It has made a submission on
the Ministry for the Environment’s
Reducing Waste: A More
Effective Landfill Levy consultation
document, saying it wants
the Ministry to consider going
further because it is worried
about the increasing levels of
waste going to landfill.
The Ministry announced late
last year that it is proposing to
increase the levy on landfills that LANDFILL: Dumping waste at the Styx Mill Eco Drop could cost more if a Government plan to
take household waste. Currently increase levies goes ahead.
PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN
the levy is $10 per tonne. Under
urgently legislate so that the full costs of disposal, are valued and increase of the waste levy is a
new proposal the levy would
disposal cost of any product is recovered.
positive step forwards further
increase to $50 or $60 per tonne
included as part of its manufacturing
or production costs. change will be an increase in the Minimisation Act 2008 to incen-
“The primary driver for this using the powers in the Waste
by mid-2023.
The Ministry is also proposing “New Zealand’s level of costs of disposal (levy) as well tivise diversion from landfill.
to extend the levy to cover more consumption and reliance on as substitution and investment “The levy should address
landfill types, including industrial,
construction and demolition is out of step with the majority of council’s submission, which was to influence diversion of
landfills for disposal of materials into resource recovery,’’ said the all waste types by the ability
fills, but not cleanfills or farm the developed world,’’ the council
says in its submission on the finance and performance com-
not focus solely or preferentially
signed off on Thursday by the recoverable resources and should
dumps. The newly levied landfills
would be charged at a rate of $10 proposed levy increases.
mittee, says.
on municipal waste. A higher,
or $20 per tonne depending on “A significant change is required
to drive a more resourceform
levy should apply across all greatest potential to divert waste
Its submission also says a uni-
broadly applied levy will have the
their type.
But the council is also calling
on central government to rently thrown away, due to cheap “The proposed expansion and submission
ful society, where materials cur-
landfill types.
from landfill,’’ the council’s
said.
In Brief
INTERSECTION DECISION
A plan to change the Ilam/
Middleton/Riccarton Rd
intersection from a dangerous
junction to a T-intersection
to reduce crashes could be
approved today. City council
staff will present a report to the
board requesting it endorses its
preferred design of restricting
the use of Middleton Rd at the
intersection by changing access/
egress to left in, left out, and
changing Ilam Rd and Middleton
Rd to a ‘T’ intersection.
POOL REOPENED
Jellie Park Recreation and
Sport Centre’s recreation pool
reopened on Saturday after the
tank tiles were repaired. Said
a Christchurch City Council
spokeswoman: “The Jellie Park
recreation pool was repaired
and reopened to the public on
Saturday, 25 January.” A city
council memo last week said the
pool tank was relined due to a
significant number of tiles failing
and customers and staff receiving
cuts to their feet.
FREE FRUIT ON NEW MAP
The city council has released a
new online map revealing where
people can find free fruit and
nuts across the city. In total,
there are 122,741 council-owned
trees in Christchurch and Banks
Peninsula. Of these, 6846 are fruit
or nut-producing trees.
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