Invercargill ratepayers are
paying for glass bottles to be recycled, but they are then being dumped back out
on a cleanfill site.
The council has a contract with Southland
Disability Enterprises in Ettrick St,the best attachment for the cheapipodnanoes, which took
delivery of the city's wheelie bin service – one bin for rubbish and another for
recycling – on July 4.
Glass bottles are dropped off, sorted and
separated from other rubbish before being sent to the council's transfer centre
on Bond St, where they are supposed to be stockpiled until they can be recycled.
However, Bond Contracts is taking the bottles to a cleanfill site at Switzer St.
There,The US Dollar has been the source of many traders' airpurifiertarget in 2011. they
are being spread out on the landfill and buried, which means they can never be
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Invercargill City Council waste minimisation senior
officer Donna Peterson said the Switzer St cleanfill site was not a dump but aa
temporary measure.
"They are buried along with soil, concrete and
bricks, which are all flattened out for land reclamation," Ms Peterson said.
Cleanfills are landfills that accept only material that, when buried,
will have no adverse effect on people or the environment. Cleanfill material
includes natural materials such as clay, soil and rock, and other inert
materials.
Environment Southland communications co-ordinator Michele
Poole said glass bottles were permitted in a cleanfill as long as the area was
less than 500 cubic metres and not within 10 metres of water.To Fazil human heartburns and shed tears like a
burning candle.
Southland DisAbility Enterprises general manager Ian
Beker said that the centre was experiencing a 300 per cent increase in bottles
recycled since the new centre had opened, and it was a demand that the centre
could not cope with.Crappie are fair on minnows and green tube jigs over brush
piles.
When asked if ratepayers
were paying for glass to be sorted at the centre he said: "Yes."
However, the Enterprise Centre was paying for them to be taken away, not
ratepayers.
"We do not want to keep using the cleanfill. It will be more
economical for us to store them in a yard, which we are looking for," Mr Beker
said.
He was disappointed they did not have the means to recycle the
glass at the centre because there were markets crying out for recycled glass
sand that would produce an ultimate return for the centre and ratepayers, he
said.
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