Skips at Recycling Centre to go

The red skip bins at the Blenheim Recycling Centre are being removed due to people abusing them.

From 15 December, anyone who uses the bins to dispose of their black Council rubbish bags can take them to the Blenheim Transfer Station.

Entry is through George Conroy Drive, off Taylor Pass Road.

The black Council bags will still be accepted free of charge there.

The removal of the free skips is to stop abuse, Council’s Solid Waste Manager Mark Lucas said.

“There is no way we can police the red skips and half of what has been going in is non-Council bags,” he said.

“Council bags will still be accepted at the weighbridge free of charge, but doing it this way means we can keep an eye on what people are dumping and hopefully, stop the system being abused by the small minority.”

Mr Lucas pointed out that all ratepayers wore the cost of the abuse.