Aucklanders are increasingly putting the wrong stuff in their recycling bins, often resulting in a lot of the contents going to landfill.<\/p>\n
The council has found so-called “bin contamination” in the city has doubled over the last three years to over 20 percent of total waste. Recycling bins in public spaces are even worse – a staggering 80 percent of their contents should not be there.<\/p>\n
The city’s bins are also turning up some pretty weird items, ranging from a samurai sword to prosthetic body parts.<\/p>\n
Thursday in Greenhithe was bin day – in fact it was a double whammy because it was also recycling day – So\u00a0Checkpoint<\/em>\u00a0hitched a ride.<\/p>\n Bin Inspector Roz Millett walked about 20,000 steps every morning to check people were putting the right items in. She said often that was not the case.<\/p>\n “We get nappies, food waste and the some of it’s not nice [be]cause then you get maggots, I’ve had a chainsaw in the bin, a whole chainsaw.”<\/p>\n If the bin was contaminated it got a red or orange tag to inform the household and the driver got an alert not to pick it up.<\/p>\n RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Aucklanders are increasingly putting the wrong stuff in their recycling bins, often resulting in a lot of the contents going to landfill. The council has found so-called “bin contamination” in the city has doubled over the last three years to over 20 percent of total waste. Recycling bins in public spaces are even worse – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6819,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6817\/revisions\/6819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}