Plastic rubbish bins have 5-week trial
KAY FORRESTER
Two hundred and fifty large plastic rubbish bins are being delivered to Christchurch addresses this week for a five-week trial.
The bins, a possible alternative to the council’s blue bags, hold about five times as much rubbish.
The council is running the trial to judge the public’s response to the bins.
Households and a few commercial properties will put them out for collection on their usual rubbish day and fill out a questionnaire at the end of the trial. The chairman of the council’s works and traffic committee, Cr Ron Wright, pushed for a trial of the bins, which are used in Malvern County, Tuakau and Mount Roskill.
The council’s streetworks engineer, Mr Bruce Scott, said garden rubbish could be put in the bins. They had the advantage of being vandal and animal proof.
The council approached sevei(s firms about the trial.liTie firm making the test is Waste Management.
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