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We're taking a close look at recycling.
The Council are taking a closer look at kerbside recycling bins through spot-checks following a spike in recycling contamination early in 2020. The aim of the exercise is to see first-hand the items causing contamination, and let residents know where they’re going wrong.
Recycling bins contaminated by rubbish and other non-recyclable items is threatening the viability of the collection service, and is hitting ratepayers in the wallet. In the first round of bin spot checks between October 2020 and February 2021, ratepayers forked out close to $150,000 in additional landfill fees to dump recycling.
If we emptied a heavily contaminated bin into the recycling truck, or several bins with a few contaminants inside, it all adds up and would contaminate the entire load sending it to the 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. You can also view the bin check results from the previous round below.
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.
This week, 7 truckloads of recycling were so contaminated with rubbish that they had to go to the landfill. This cost ratepayers an additional $9,035.
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
18-22 Jan
9
140
17
124
40
180
111
132
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.
During the tenth week of bin checks, 9 truckloads of recycling were so contaminated with rubbish that they had to go to the landfill. This cost ratepayers an additional $12,337.
These figures represent the number of truckloads of recycling that were able to be recycled and those sent to landfill because of contamination.
