Ratepayers’ Alliance welcome commitment to weekly refuse
collection
4 SEPTEMBER 2019
The Auckland
Ratepayers’ Alliance, which strongly campaigned against the Mayor’s Waste
Management and Minimisation Plan two years ago, is welcoming
the commitment from John Tamihere to retain
weekly general waste kerbside collection.
Alliance spokesperson Jo Holmes says, “The
majority of submitters on the Council’s 10-year budget
were opposed to Mr Goff’s proposals to scrap weekly
kerbside waste collection, in favour of a uniform weekly
food scrap and fortnightly general waste service.”
“Weekly food scrap collection is an environmental own
goal – the emissions from increased truck movements far
exceed the captured methane gases from composting the wasted
food.”
“It is also prohibitively expensive for
ratepayers, when most just want the current services of a
weekly waste and fortnightly recycling collection.”
“We welcome Mr Tamihere’s cost saving measure to
scrap the third food waste collection, in favour of
retaining the weekly general garbage
collection.”
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