by John Robinson
The Kapiti Coast District Council’s Long Term Plan reeks of hypocrisy. They make claims to be green, to be concerned with the environment. They say, in their expensive, long-winded glossy community PR exercise – the consultation document, “Securing our future” – that “Minimising waste helps reduce emissions, use resources efficiently and protect our environment, so it’s a high priority for us”, and that they want to “spend more time … helping people work out ways they can reduce waste, reuse and recycle.”
Like many of us, our household has been doing that all our lives. We keep waste to a minimum. We have a couple of compost bins. We take recycling waste to the Waikanae green waste and recycling site, every four or five weeks. We do not need to use the kerbside recycling services, with their large and noisy trucks, with the large bins that encourage large quantities of waste, and the added costs involved.
A glossy photo has the caption: “We are expanding our waste minimisation initiatives to support the community and businesses to keep waste out of landfill.” That is a bareface lie as the actions are very opposite. They are removing support, not providing better support; destroying initiative, not helping people to work out ways to do better.
The council wants to force us from self-sufficiency to the wasteful commercial service. “Most users of this recycling station (the Waikanae green waste and recycling site) also have kerbside recycling services, so we’re proposing to close this site from 1 August 2021.” The aim is to close down a useful service, to drive us to pay for the wasteful commercial system, and to destroy our efforts to minimise our waste and to take care of ourselves – the exact opposite of their empty talk.
Both central and local Govt are working tirelessly in every which way to ruin our world & deceive us. Their only interest lies in their own bank accounts. The constant breaking down of anything worthwhile is evident all around us. Prepare for the worst.
Would it have anything to do with the proposed Summerset Retirement Village going next door?
That was our thought too.
My thoughts too. Also has it been widely published and surveyed???
There has been survey work, and drilling in that area the last few weeks.
A major issue WASTE was well discussed on radio today on my way back from an airport drop OFF, the main consensus is that WASTE is not a unified process across the country each COUNCIL are putting their own it looks good on paper GREEN process where in reality nearly all products even the recycling are all ending up in LANDFILL, in this case the land will more that likely be reclaimed for housing as one person previously mentioned a retirement village going up next door will be the MAIN reason for it’s closure.
we use that recycling centre frequently and are very annoyed to read about this proposed closure. It is often busy when we are there. As far as I know there has been no consultation with the Waikanae community.
“Most users of this recycling station (the Waikanae green waste and recycling site) also have kerbside recycling services, so we’re proposing to close this site from 1 August 2021.” Where do these statistics come from and how did KCDC come to that conclusion?? Proposing – I would propose Waikanae not be devoid of a recycling station.
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