Is it really worth it?


Auckland City recently have got trolley sized recycling bins to replace the smaller carry bin. These bins are paid for in their rates and allow them to recycle more items.

My experiences recently in Wellington have been the opposite!

Recycling, requires taking cans and bottles to a small green bin every day and then putting it on the curb to be collected. This does not bother me and I feel like I am doing my part for the environment!

The part that bothers me is why are people stealing my recycling bin? I had one and this disappeared in the wind, so I accepted this and went and got another one, being a good citizen and paid my ten dollars, as Wellington's bins are not included in their rates....The bin turned up two weeks later looking very unharmed.

Also on my visit to collect my bin I am told that I need to be sorting my recycling and securing them into plastic bags (apparently due to wind). Into one bag of plastic, glass bottles, food tins and cans then another bag of paper and cardboard. Then I need to put these plastic bag into the recycling. So here I am trying to save the environment with my environment bags and I am told I need more plastic bags!

My next bin got stolen somebody collected it and off they went. So feeling annoyed, I still went and got another one, at ten dollars again. I plastered my address everywhere and off it went out on the curb and so far has come back after rubbish day.