Letters to the editor: Time to terminate waste collection deal

A variety of rubbish and recycling bins at the council. Photo / File

In the past year, as residents of Tauranga, we have been requested to support local so that our local companies can continue to survive and retain their staff.

Unfortunately, Tauranga City Council has done a deal with a company owned in Hong Kong - very local to China.

So, our local waste companies and their employees will lose out.

The service we have at this time is good. I use blue bags at $2 a bag every two weeks. The bag also includes my neighbour's rubbish.

It is time to terminate the deal.

P A Turmer
Tauranga

Major changes needed on rentals

Stephanie Worsop got it spot on in her editorial (Opinion, November 11) on rentals.

As I have said many times, landlords in New Zealand have been getting away with murder in their attitude towards tenants.

The very fact that they are allowed to treat houses as commodities is in itself an indictment of the whole system.

This is the single cause of the shortage of houses and nothing will alter that fact until a new law comes into effect that states if you own a house then live in it - or sell it.

This will put an end to the awful practice of AirBnBs and the glut of empty homes owned by overseas investors.

It cannot come soon enough.

Jim Adams
Rotorua

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