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Council scraps compulsory green waste bin by Greg Brown At last Thursday’s Council meeting, community outrage won the day, with Councillors voting 9 to 3 to dump the two week old plan to introduce mandatory green waste bins for a $60.00 fee. The new charge was to have commenced on July 1, 2014 but has now been referred for further investigation as part of the Waste Minimisation Strategy review. Local Glasshouse Country readers panned the compulsory bin plan as being ‘unfair’ and a ‘money grab’. Local Councillors Rick Baberowski and Jenny McKay voted against the original motion which was taken behind closed doors in a confidential session, and were two of the nine who supported
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the veto of the plan last Thursday. The latest motion approved at the meeting decided to not proceed with the green waste bin as part of a new waste collection contract … ‘due to the relatively high cost per property and the low waste diversion levels achieved.’ This means that the cost to ratepayers was too high for the small difference it would have made to the amount of green waste going to landfill – contrary to what Mayor Mark Jamieson claimed in his media statement after the original decision was made. More sensibly, the new decision from Council strengthens community education programs to encourage more residents to home compost and make use of the existing optional green waste bin system.
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