Student area rubbish collection

Is there something a little odd about loud young voices demanding, in order to stop the climate changing and to protect the environment, that everyone [else?] should stop using plastics, don't create waste, avoid fossil fuel use, recycle & re-use? I would have thought there were enough concerned students to put pressure on the piggy minority to stop befouling their patch of the planet. Apparently not.

Wednesday, 15 January 2020

Solutions sought to student area issues

By Chris Morris

  ...In 2019, 375 tonnes of rubbish was collected from the student area.
As well as monitoring skips and advertising the service, the university inspected 11 streets weekly to identify ‘‘potential problems’’ with rubbish....
 
...The final inspection last year was on December 4, when just one item of furniture was found on a footpath, while other streets were ‘‘clean and tidy’’.
The next inspection, on January 8, found ‘‘a lot of furniture, non-DCC bags of waste and several mattresses’’ dumped on footpaths.
Council infrastructure services general manager Simon Drew said the council had spent about $8500 in recent weeks removing an extra 26 truckloads of waste from streets in the campus area....
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/dcc/solutions-sought-student-area-issues 

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• Lee Vandervis The DCC provides a wide range of services and facilities which the University and students use but Dunedin citizens pay for. Adding garbage collection to the list seems unfair to me.
  A figure of $8,500 for extra skips last month as in the pic below has been suggested, but who would know the full rate-paid costs?
  The claim that landlords are guilty of this mess could easily be proved or otherwise by the hundreds of street-video-cameras run by the University, but there is no hint of the University making anyone accountable...
  Why should they when it is ratepayers that pay?

  
  

  

  
  


Kat Leader The thing is that students pay a bond. The bond states the house is left in a fair and tidy condition. If students are simply leaving behind their furniture /rubbish, then it's up to the landlords to remove it and xharge it out from the bonds collected.
Why the hell are the rest of us picking up the tab?

How about Dcc does an inorganic collection? Across the whole city (I e. For ALL), like that done in other nz cities.


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