The Wellington and Porirua tip fees are similar but maybe the travel time is the reason if Jville gets trucked to Spicers Road

Could be, but that's a relatively large difference in price for what's about an 8 minute drive. Funny how all the providers charge about the same as well... almost exactly the same.

rscole86: They already offer new customers better pricing than renewals, so I suspect they're offering suburbs with lower patronage a discount to try and get more business.

I've not compared many addresses in Upper Hutt, but as there's no council service, the big two basically the same price as each other.

In Upper Hutt in March when mine rolled over there was $130 difference between low cost and WM for a 240 general waste bin for the same street. Crazy not to go with low cost at the time 

elpenguino:

mattwnz: You can't get much in a bag, especially if you have to get rid of leaves off council trees that blown into your driveways, and don't have a garden. I pay nearly that for a 120 liter bin, which is probably 5 times what a bag holds. 

 

Got space for a composter?

Got an empty section nearby?

rscole86: I don't think there are any commercial landfills in Wellington, the closest I'm aware of is/was near Fielding.

The Waitaki Valley does not have kerbside collection, so we need to take our bach's rubbish, recycling and green waste to a local transfer station, which is only open 2 days a week (for just 3 hours each day). 

We bought our own wheelie bins to make this process somewhat less onerous - loading them onto a garden trailer or back of the ute and carting them to the station.

Weirdly, they charge by volume not weight, and the old guys do it all by eye. So when we recently turned up with a trailer piled high with tree trimmings, they just eyeballed it and said "yea that's 3 cubes, $75 thanks" and I was like "ok I guess"... what am I gonna do, ask to see their calibration certificate? 😂

Same with refuse - a 240 litre wheelie bin is $60 from memory, but I tend to stand on the contents and compress it down so I only have to pay for half a bin. So in a way this is better than paying by the kg/tonne. If it's a trailer load of rubbish such as oddly shaped construction waste, we've had to chop it down into itty bitty pieces first in order to pay less. This was true of the old kitchen cabinets we recently sought to dispose of - sort of like a reverse flat-pack I guess 😎

Recycling - everything has to be sorted at the station by the user - so we stand there for half an hour sorting beer/wine bottles by colour (green, brown, clear) then aluminium cans, tin cans, plastic bottles, other plastic (meat trays etc), paper, cardboard etc - all go down their own individual chutes into separate skips. At least recycling is free I guess.

The alternative is paying for kerbside collection through rates - something central government is considering forcing on smaller regional councils. I imagine this would cost us more in the long run and would also be problematic as the vast majority of houses in our town (Otematata) are holiday homes - so the chances of people being in residence on the day the bins need to be put out and brought back in are very low. That would be a great job for an enterprising local though I guess.

Wheelbarrow01: The Waitaki Valley does not have kerbside collection, so we need to take our bach's rubbish, recycling and green waste to a local transfer station, which is only open 2 days a week (for just 3 hours each day).

... at two o'clock in the morning, in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard.

neb:

 

Wheelbarrow01: The Waitaki Valley does not have kerbside collection, so we need to take our bach's rubbish, recycling and green waste to a local transfer station, which is only open 2 days a week (for just 3 hours each day).

 

... at two o'clock in the morning, in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard.

 

Is that you Zaphod?