LGOIMA Request Details: LG1886
Date received: 12/11/2019
Requested information: Recycling and refuse
Status: Complete
Date responded: 21/11/2019
Response:
Please find information as requested below.
1. Diversion rate of 21% (Based on incomplete data. Note: No allowance made for tonnes of farm waste dumped on farms)
2. Volume of waste per capita to landfill = 643kgs per Feilding population
Note: Not all Manawatu waste is moved through Manawatu Transfer Station. Per capita rate is therefore unreliable.
3. Recycling rate per capita 77 kgs per capita. Note: Recycling in rural areas is via drop off recycling centres
4. Where is your closest landfill- Bonny Glen near Marton. (42kms distance from Feilding)
5. Destinations –
Plastic: Budget Plastics, Malaysia
Metal: Scrap metal dealer in Palmerston North
Paper: Oji Fibre
Glass - OI Auckland
6. Level of service
Rubbish -Kerbside Recycling kerbside
Urban Y Y
Rural Y - Part N
7. Drinking glasses or pyrex: Not accepted
8. Plastic plant pots (Accepted only if have 1-5 recycle number)
9. Soft plastics: Not accepted
10. Tetra Paks carton: Not accepted
11. Plastic milk bottle lids : Not accepted
12. Food waste and greenwaste – Not provided by Council (Note: Private urban collection for greenwaste)
1. Diversion rate of 21% (Based on incomplete data. Note: No allowance made for tonnes of farm waste dumped on farms)
2. Volume of waste per capita to landfill = 643kgs per Feilding population
Note: Not all Manawatu waste is moved through Manawatu Transfer Station. Per capita rate is therefore unreliable.
3. Recycling rate per capita 77 kgs per capita. Note: Recycling in rural areas is via drop off recycling centres
4. Where is your closest landfill- Bonny Glen near Marton. (42kms distance from Feilding)
5. Destinations –
Plastic: Budget Plastics, Malaysia
Metal: Scrap metal dealer in Palmerston North
Paper: Oji Fibre
Glass - OI Auckland
6. Level of service
Rubbish -Kerbside Recycling kerbside
Urban Y Y
Rural Y - Part N
7. Drinking glasses or pyrex: Not accepted
8. Plastic plant pots (Accepted only if have 1-5 recycle number)
9. Soft plastics: Not accepted
10. Tetra Paks carton: Not accepted
11. Plastic milk bottle lids : Not accepted
12. Food waste and greenwaste – Not provided by Council (Note: Private urban collection for greenwaste)