Second Hand Sunday this weekend

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Second Hand Sunday this weekend

Second Hand Sunday is coming up this weekend. If you have been spring cleaning, now is the perfect opportunity to get rid of your unwanted goods for free.

To be involved you just need to register with the council by 5pm on Thursday 8 October and then put any unwanted goods out by your letterbox before 9am on Sunday morning, 11 October.

By registering with council your address will go on the list that is advertised in the Gisborne Herald on Saturday night and on the Gisborne District Council webpage www.gdc.govt.nz. Treasure hunters use this list to find the participating addresses where they can sort through your rubbish. As Mayor Meng Foon says, “Second hand Sunday turns one mans junk into another man’s treasure. If you don’t want it, put it out by the letterbox so that someone else can use it. I am fully supportive of Second Hand Sunday”.

Environmental educator Anne Lister says that this is part of Gisborne’s waste minimisation programme. “Reusing is so much better than landfilling. The twice yearly Second Hand Sundays have become an institution in the city. Each time the day is held about 75 tonnes of potential waste is diverted from landfill”.

Everyone in Gisborne can participate – either by putting out things they no longer want which are given away or by going around and collecting items from others. Some families choose to do both.

Dawn Smith-Martyn of Stout Street thinks Second Hand Sunday is an absolutely brilliant idea! “We managed to dispose of heaps of stuff we had been trying to get rid of for ages! My children picked up some useful things including a dilapidated chest that my step-son spent ages sanding and fixing rather than watching TV or playing Playstation! We had lots of fun driving around; my daughter navigated us from one address to another. We had the excitement of not knowing what would be found from one place to another and we all gained a better knowledge of the streets of Gisborne.”

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