Recycling up, rubbish down

June 18, 2007

The recent Controller and Auditor-General’s performance audit report gave our city a big tick for following good waste management practices.

North Shore residents continue their traditionally positive response to the city's kerbside recycling initiatives.
They have used their blue and yellow wheelie bins to recycle 22,800 tonnes of glass, steel and plastic bottles and along with their paper and cardboard collections over the past 10 months. This totalled almost half of all waste collected in the city.

North Shore City Council's waste minimisation manager, Bradley Nolan, thanks the community for continuing the trend of increasing the amount of waste being recycled.

“We have collected 14 per cent more recyclables, reducing the amount of waste sent to landfill by some 870 tonnes when compared to the same period last year.

“Residents also threw out 15 per cent more (or 510 tonnes) in the inorganic collection last year with 350 tonnes of steel recycled. This rise can be attributed to growth in the city and the length of time since the last collection. This figure is a lot less than the growth experienced by other councils in Auckland,” he says.

North Shore City Council introduced the country's first citywide kerbside recycling service in 1990 and the community has sustained its enthusiasm for recycling initiatives over the years.

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