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The Fencing of Swimming Pools Act was introduced to protect young children from the danger of drowning.
The Council has 112 units in Kaiapoi, Oxford, Rangiora and Woodend for people over 65 with limited means.
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The Waimakariri District Council is one of the largest employers in the Waimakariri District and has become an employer of choice.
We’ve been around the District and checked over 8,000 recycling bins since mid-October in an effort to prevent recycling being sent to landfill.
It's been worthwhile, as we've been able to see the items that are causing contamination and let people know so that they put the right things in the right bins.
In the first week of the checks, 24% of bins were too contaminated to collect. We provided these residents with information about what can and can't be recycled, and after follow up checks, contamination dropped to just 8% resulting in an overall improvement of 66%.
Contamination levels in other spot checked areas continue to be high. So far, 1,415 yellow bins were found to be contaminated with food, rubbish, soft plastics, dirty nappies and sanitary items, clothing, broken toys and other dirty or non-recyclable items. These bins were left uncollected so that they didn’t contaminate the recycling truck, and we left information with the residents to let them know what items can be accepted for recycling.
If we emptied a heavily contaminated bin into the truck, it would contaminate the entire load and would have to be sent to landfill.
Check out the stats in the 'Weekly District-Wide Contamination Rates' section below to see how many truckloads of recycling have been sent to the landfill because they're too badly contaminated to be processed for recycling. It also shows the additional cost to ratepayers.
Contaminated
Collected
Monday (Pegasus)
38
125
Tuesday (Rangiora)
43
167
Wednesday (Rangiora)
42
106
Thursday (Kaiapoi)
28
77
Friday (Woodend & Rangiora)
33
115
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Monday (Oxford)
47
27
56
174
46
258
64
219
Friday (Beachgrove & Kaiapoi)
88
274
4
30
142
45
168
161
Friday (Tuahiwi & Woodend)
23
182
20
251
14
170
18
192
13
191
Friday (Kaiapoi & Beachgrove)
281
9-13 November
12
112
154
24
243
178
Friday (Tuahiwi)
1
16-20 November
21
206
216
34
291
Friday (Kaiapoi)
11
23-27 November
Monday (Woodend)
200
210
60
220
62
Friday (Rangiora/Tuahiwi)
155
30 Nov-4 Dec
203
15
224
22
133
26
259
228
07 Dec-11 Dec
150
160
253
202
Friday (Rangiora)
44
126
These figures represent the percentage of total truckloads of recycling that were able to be recycled and those that had to be sent to landfill because they were so badly contaminated with rubbish, food and soft plastic. The figures are for the entire recycling collection service across the District for the same weekly periods as the recycling bin spot checks.
During the first week of bin checks, 15 truckloads of recycling were so contaminated with rubbish that they had to go to the landfill. This cost ratepayers an additional $17,919.
During the second week of bin checks, 10 truckloads of recycling were so contaminated with rubbish that they had to go to the landfill. This cost ratepayers an additional $16,057.
During the third week of bin checks, 12 truckloads of recycling were so contaminated with rubbish that they had to go to the landfill. This cost ratepayers an additional $15,938.
During the fourth week of bin checks, 13 truckloads of recycling were so contaminated with rubbish that they had to go to the landfill.This cost ratepayers an additional $16,145.
During the fifth week of bin checks, 12 truckloads of recycling were so contaminated with rubbish that they had to go to the landfill. This cost ratepayers an additional $16,542.
During the sixth week of bin checks, 15 truckloads of recycling were so contaminated with rubbish that they had to go to the landfill. This cost ratepayers an additional $16,145.
During the seventh week of bin checks, 11 truckloads of recycling were so contaminated with rubbish that they had to go to the landfill. This cost ratepayers an additional $12,742.
During the eighth week of bin checks, 10 truckloads of recycling were so contaminated with rubbish that they had to go to the landfill. This cost ratepayers an additional $12,124.
During the ninth week of bin checks, 12 truckloads of recycling were so contaminated with rubbish that they had to go to the landfill. This cost ratepayers an additional $13,120.
These figures represent the number of truckloads of recycling that were able to be recycled and those sent to landfill because of contamination.
