Recycling of rubbish

Press, 21 March 1983, Page 20

Recycling of rubbish

Sir, — Predictably the Mayor and Citizens councillors are gloating about the abandoning of the rubbish recycling scheme which they have opposed and verbally sabotaged at every opportunity. It is apparently by necessary to demonstrate to these people the magnitude of the problem and the indisputable logic of reducing by all means possible the sheer volume of the rubbish which is the essence of the problem. To achieve this I suggest that for a period of six months no rubbish be allowed to cross any ward boundary. The reserves and parks closest to the disdainful councillor’s homes should be used as collection centres. Perhaps then even they will get the message so obvious to all thinking citizens. — Yours, etc., TERRY DOLBY. March 17, 1983.

Sir, — It was with a great sense of sorrow that I heard that the recycling scheme would probably be abandoned by the City Council. Since the scheme started I have not thrown a single item out which could be recycled. I think that this city a big thank owes you to Cr Graeme Stanley for a valiant effort to get recycling off the ground. Cr Stanley’s greatest fault was that he was ahead of his time and despite his personal efforts, people did not go along with the concept. I gained the impression that Cr Stanley often fought an uphill battle with the engineers on the council staff. It seems a shame that if New Zealand had been at war everybody would have been patriotic and recycled everything and industry would have found a use for it. In more wasteful times industry receives no incentive and engineers feel no inclination to find end uses for recycled materials. — Yours, etc.,

GARRY A. MOORE. March 14, 1983.