Rubbish around Paengaroa Members of our community gave a clear message that they were concerned about the increasing level of rubbish littering our road sides and also within kiwifruit orchards. There was a feeling that this increased within the period when seasonal workers are present within our communities. Thanks to our “two Angels” who keep the cycleway clear of rubbish
Strategy
Strategy
- Communicate with NZ Kiwifruit Growers to highlight the issue and ask for your assistance in getting the message to preferably ALL those employed in the kiwifruit industry - that we value our clean green image and would appreciate them doing their bit for the communities where they work and live.
- Developing some posters/boards to go by rubbish bins within our community with the picture of a bee and the caption Bee tidy! Rubbish beelongs in the bin!
- Involve the primary schools in doing some promotion when these are launched
- Involve the local media.
- Communicate with Western Bay of Plenty District Council re WESTLINK picking up the rubbish on the side of the roads – which has just been done.
- Lobby Western Bay District Council to provide an area that the green bags can be collected from.
RUBBISH COLLECTION IN PAENGAROA: Tuesdays 7.30am put your WBOPDC Rubbish Bag outside your house. This is the cheapest form of rubbish removal. Buy bags from the Paengaroa Country Store for $3.00.
Report abuse of rubbish disposal to the Western BOP District Council by ringing 5718008. Household rubbish is NOT to be put in public rubbish bins. NO dumping of rubbish anywhere on McKenzie Road. Public rubbish bins are NOT to be used by commercial premises. Project Manager for Rubbish issues in Paengaroa is now Wendy Cantlon. Ph: 533 1833.
Some members of our community already pick up rubbish from the sides of the road and putting it in their own "paid-for-council rubbish bags". Thank you. Gus Cantlon has also arranged for the gutters to be swept and grass verges sprayed for weeds. Keep Paengaroa Rubbish Free. You can ring the Council direct and ask for a service request if you wish to report rubbish, or if you feel there is something the Council should clean up.
Report abuse of rubbish disposal to the Western BOP District Council by ringing 5718008. Household rubbish is NOT to be put in public rubbish bins. NO dumping of rubbish anywhere on McKenzie Road. Public rubbish bins are NOT to be used by commercial premises. Project Manager for Rubbish issues in Paengaroa is now Wendy Cantlon. Ph: 533 1833.
Some members of our community already pick up rubbish from the sides of the road and putting it in their own "paid-for-council rubbish bags". Thank you. Gus Cantlon has also arranged for the gutters to be swept and grass verges sprayed for weeds. Keep Paengaroa Rubbish Free. You can ring the Council direct and ask for a service request if you wish to report rubbish, or if you feel there is something the Council should clean up.
the following is a personal note from the website builder. My prerogative. You may have read the Weekend Sun article about Marty Hoffart the waste watcher and waste minimisation guru. The whole article can be read at www.theweekendsun.co.nz The headline was "Bounty on bottles adds fizz to recycling". Anyway Waste Management in Tauranga stopped accepting glass in their kerbside recycling bins. "unsustainable", the company claimed in a letter to customers. "Including glass in mixed recycling means less glass is recycled and leads to considerable contamination of other recycling materials." It was a business decision, an economic one. Tauranga's collection companies are privately owned and operated, leaving ratepayers prone to business decisions. So now we have to take our glass to the nearest recycling station which I think is Te Puke, Station Road and it's only open on some days. Who knows? I have discontinued my recycling collection bin because if I have to go all the way to Te Puke to recycle the glass I might as well take the other stuff as well. I think if everyone does the same, this "economic" reason for stopping glass collection will blow back in their face. And it's my opinion that the Western BOP and Regional Council is to blame for not organising it properly. Cindy.