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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. Between October 2020 and April 2021 the cost to ratepayers for landfilling contaminated recycling is up to $307,000 with 253 truckloads being rejected because of dirty 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.
Contaminated
Collected
Monday (Woodend)
16
72
Tuesday (Rangiora)
13
160
Wednesday (Rangiora)
19
159
Thursday (Kaiapoi)
41
120
Friday (Kaiapoi)
33
131
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Monday (Oxford)
22
84
43
132
46
156
34
204
49
183
73
184
177
187
31
174
113
7
144
10
112
98
11
175
121
21
221
147
213
40
238
Monday (Woodend and Pegasus)
185
215
42
278
275
15
24
173
25
96
39
60
Monday (Public Holiday)
N/A
127
47
110
102
23
97
118
29
116
Monday (Woodend/Pegasus)
100
137
166
20
104
8
111
14
76
18
128
135
61
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.
This week, 4 truckloads of recycling were so contaminated with rubbish that they had to go to the landfill. This cost ratepayers an additional $5,640.
Note - on the Thursday of this week, the collection truck had an issue where it did not record the lift of several bins therefore the data for this day has been estimated.
This week, 5 truckloads of recycling were so contaminated with rubbish that they had to go to the landfill. This cost ratepayers an additional $5,262.
This week, 6 truckloads of recycling were so contaminated with rubbish that they had to go to the landfill. This cost ratepayers an additional $6,415.
This week, 5 truckloads of recycling were so contaminated with rubbish that they had to go to the landfill. This cost ratepayers an additional $5,270.
This week, 7 truckloads of recycling were so contaminated with rubbish that they had to go to the landfill. This cost ratepayers an additional $8,566.
This week, 10 truckloads of recycling were so contaminated with rubbish that they had to go to the landfill. This cost ratepayers an additional $11,432.
This week, 5 truckloads of recycling were so contaminated with rubbish that they had to go to the landfill. This cost ratepayers an additional $4,063.
This week, 4 truckloads of recycling were so contaminated with rubbish that they had to go to the landfill. This cost ratepayers an additional $5,311.
This week, six truckloads of recycling were so contaminated with rubbish that they had to go to the landfill. This cost ratepayers an additional $1,675.
This week, 5 truckloads of recycling were so contaminated with rubbish that they had to go to the landfill. This cost ratepayers an additional $1,060.
This week, one truckload of recycling were so contaminated with rubbish that they had to go to the landfill. This cost ratepayers an additional $1,650
Monday (Pegasus)
38
125
167
106
28
77
Friday (Woodend & Rangiora)
115
27
56
258
64
219
Friday (Beachgrove & Kaiapoi)
88
274
4
30
142
45
168
161
Friday (Tuahiwi & Woodend)
182
251
170
192
191
Friday (Kaiapoi & Beachgrove)
281
9-13 November
12
154
243
178
Friday (Tuahiwi)
1
16-20 November
206
216
291
23-27 November
200
210
220
62
Friday (Rangiora/Tuahiwi)
155
30 Nov-4 Dec
203
224
133
26
259
228
07 Dec-11 Dec
150
253
202
Friday (Rangiora)
44
126
18-22 Jan
9
140
17
124
180
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.
