Rubbish Collection

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31349, 20 April 1967, Page 14

Rubbish Collection

Sir,—When rates go up and wages go up, need the standard of service go down? Householders were required to put rubbish containers outside their boundaries for collection. The empty bins weri replaced on the footpaths: Many householders are out at work during the day, so bins stood out all night and empty bins were out on the footpath during the day. Lately, bins have been left on the road where the sealed surface meets the grass edge, making an irregular line of empty bins on each side of the roadway, where they may remain, some of them until evening. In Wellington I have seen rubbish collection made from houses, so that bins do not stand in the street at ali. Here it should meet the case if bins were replaced inside the entrances from which they came, leaving the street and the footpaths tidy, not like a slum road.—Yours, etc., ARTHUR LUSH.

April 7, 1967. [The City Engineer (Mr P. G. Scoular) replies: “I am sorry if there is any suggestion that the service provided in refuse collection has gone down. The requirement that bins be replaced on the property line has not changed for many years. The city bylaws impose an obligation upon the property owner to remove his bin from the street as soon as possible after it is emptied. It is appreciated that in many cases this inevitably means some delay. To provide a collection from within properties would substantially increase the cost of providing refuse collection.”]