Refuse protest meeting

Press, 12 July 1980, Page 6

Refuse protest meeting

Residents of Burwood Road and Prestons Road, who manned pickets last week in an effort to prevent trial dumping of rubbish in the proposed Waimairi landfill site, will hold a meeting today. A member of the residents’ committee, Mr A. R. Birkbeck said that residents from all the 45 houses ; in the immediate area of the site were expected to attend. Proposals to be considered at the meeting included a local recycling scheme. Mr Birkbeck said he expected the meeting to support the Waimairi Coastal Protection

Committee in its campaign against the land-fill site, which : would probably cost about $15,000.

A local recycling scheme would allow the householders to make a positive contribution to the refuse problem, he said. No site had been suggested yet, but it was hoped Sn owner of an empty section would allow it to be used, Mr Birkbeck said. The site would be landscaped. “It will improve our neighbourhood, and will show the Metropolitan Refuse Disposal Committee what can and should be done,” he said.

Any profits from the project would be used to develop the street, possibly by erecting play equipment for children.

Mr Birkbeck said the residents were sure that recycling was a viable proposition. It was successful in the Avon Loop and in the Auckland suburb of Devbnport. The committee would oppose the Metropolitan Refuse Committee’s application for a water right to dump refuse at the Waimairi landfill site, “but we will lend them a hand to dig their rubbish up again,” Mr Birkbeck said.