Hi, I know that you’ve all been wondering about waste disposal here. These are some bin bags. The rubbish collection system is very complicated here. You can buy these orange bags from a supermarket and some of the money goes to the council, who will come and take them away. If however, you don’t want bags and you’d rather have a wheelie bin, you can hire one from various companies, who will then come and empty it for you. I had to go out on bin day and copy the phone number off someone’s bin to get started. You can use a combo of both systems if you like, and I sometimes do.
Wheelie bins have to be placed very precisely, the correct way round next to the kerb. We have a free recycling bin – collected every 2 weeks. Also, I have just sent off for a garden rubbish bin – also hired on a yearly basis.
What about the dump I hear you cry! Well, at $35 dollars a pop it’s quite expensive.
After extensive research I have found a company who are going to take our Christmas tree away tomorrow – for a small fee. We might go back to our artificial one next year.
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3 responses to “Wot a load of rubbish”
Interesting! At least it gets taken away – becauise of the snow the rubbish from last Wednesday has not yet been collected, and its started snowing again.
oh dear. perhaps you should get your rubbish cryogenically fronzen instead ?
sounds kind of like our system. We have 3 wheelie bins, one for organise stuff, one for recycling (no glass please) and one for the rest. But the bin chappies are working to rule so if your bin is not exactly at 90 degrees to the kerb with the lid fully shut then they won’t open it.
Helpfully I didn’t know about this fussiness until after they ignored my bin so with that and Christmas and New Year (New Years to you Kiwis) it’s all gone haywire. Snow not an issue as we only had about 30cm and a 30 tonne truck can easily get through that 🙂