[sarahw]

OK so not a great choice of activity for the day I hear you cry!! But I had to put a post on here because I just had my first trip to the rubbish dump & boy it made my day!!

Can't say if this goes for all tips in NZ - I'm thinking probably not, but the rubbish dump at Porirua is set in the middle of beautiful bush - in fact there's a reserve next to the tip!! I went to get rid of some packaging that we've had kicking around in the garage for a while...

They recycle polystyrene (I almost had a car load!)... into underfloor insulation!!

They also had a shop (Trash Palace) where they take all the items that can be sold (that in the tip I used to go to in the UK would have been landfilled!) such as pictures, sports equipment, well all sorts really - at very cheap prices!

They also have a place where workshops are run on recycling & green issues.

I used to regularly visit the tip in England because that was the only way to recycle most of the items since the council didn't bother about taking much from the kerbside and I know that they vary council to council (probably the same here) and that there probably are some amazing projects there too.


I've known since I moved here that it existed, but never had any need to go to the tip until now. I'm going to be going there more often now!! ;)

[Carol]

We used to take the kids from school up there for a trip out every now and again when we were studying recycling Sarah.
It's cool eh?

http://www.trashpalace.co.nz/

[pieeater]

We're having a Christmas Party at our local tip.Live music,bring a plate and a few cans.I kid you not.

[Smiler]

I love Trash Palace, it's one of my fav places. :o

[sarahw]

Now that's a novel place for an Xmas bash Pieeater!!

[veronica]

Same in Christchurch except its called super shed.

[KerryS]

I have never been to the tip since coming to NZ - we have roadside recycling for almost everything here. And inorganic collection a couple of times a year as well. It's excellent.

I must say I'd like to go to Pieeaters Christmas Tip Party though - sounds fab!

[Smiler]

We don't have a rubbish collection at all out here. I took my one black bag collected from the move and 2 weeks of living here, to the 'tip' and it was one.

$2 to dump one black bag or I have to get yellow stickers from somewhere, probably the same price. But no Trash Palace and the only thing I can recycle is glass, everything else is dumped. :wah

[veronica]

With some of the areas that are remote it costs more to transport the recycling than its worth. Queenstown and Wanaka have only recently stopped putting glass in land fill cos there was nowhere to send it too.

And in Chch we can only recycle a couple of the types of plastic as the population base being small doesn't justify the cost of recycling the others.