The Mundane

Just a reminder because every rubbish day still has a multitude of red and/or yellow bins.

RECYCLING TOMORROW

IN BLUFF

Three Bin System – Inconsistent Decision

In my tidying I’ve come across a tabled document relating to the three bin system and that inconsistent decision that seemed to annoy Greenwood so much.

Four Down, Four To Go!

The wad of Bluff Beacon is shrinking, numbers 1295, 1297, 1299 and 1301 today.

BTW, it’s NOT rubbish day…public holiday on Monday so rubbish (and this week recycling) is a day later.  I sometimes wonder why ICC spend so much money on advertising this sort of information when so few must be listening.  It’s always a day later though after a public holiday.  I’m sure those people didn’t forget to take the day off so why forget rubbish will be a day later.

Would be the sort of thing you would expect in our local rag though…on the front page so even people not buying it would see it.

ICC staff don’t lie.

As a rule I don’t believe they do but they are well schooled in the art of providing only some of the information.  I believe it’s the follow up question you present to them that gives you the info you actually want.  This has been one of my biggest concerns over the Bluff Community Board.  I read the forestry report in the 8 June 2009 agenda, rung DOC and ES and then went to the meeting.  The Board members asked a few questions, most of which had already been stated in the report(!).  All the questions they asked I already knew the answers to because of my earlier inquiries with the experts (DOC and ES).  One member asked about native planting.  The half answer was in amongst other inane information (put in the distract) but the board did not pick up on the ‘planting along tracks and roadsides’ and therefore did not ask the vital follow up question.

What about the other 40+ hectares not deemed as along tracks and roadsides?

I’m sure I bit my tongue to stop myself blurting it out.

Anyway I had rung Donna Peterson over a year ago to get her thoughts on an idea regarding waste stream options for Bluff.  One stream I discussed was glass and made comment that many I know comment on relocating their glass instead of recycling it because we know it’s being stockpiled.  She went on to tell me that that was being incorporated with roading aggregate and the contractor had sold it when prices were up….”Invercargill City Council are not stockpiling glass”.

The follow up question “But is your contractor?”

We had to agree to disagree because I was confident my information was correct but she had a comeback for nearly everything….well done Donna! but the Times has just confirmed it haven’t they!

I also spoke to Ian Beker briefly at Southland DisAbility Enterprise and he informed me they weren’t looking at glass.  I had been lauding the end-use  products of crushed glass and had seen a $15k trailer mounted glass crusher for community (Bluff) use for no reason other than the fact that I don’t consider it recycling if you’re dumping on a beach.

The end-use products are awesome including golf bunker sand, floor tiles, benchtops, sandblasting, garden mulch….

Nice to see it being implemented and I look forward to seeing some colourful gardens.  It’s used in some vineyards and as mulch to retain water and it also reflects the sun onto the grapes to ripen them faster…maybe Mayor Tim could have his vineyard in Bluff now.