Letters to the editor: Transfer station's 'minimum-charge regime' questioned

The minimum charge at Te Maunga Transfer Station is being questioned by a reader. Photo / File

I have just visited the Te Maunga Transfer Station where I discovered, the hard way, that the minimum charge to dump general rubbish is now $17.

I only had a few small items to dump and the main reason for my visit was to drop in recycling. No wonder more and more people are choosing to dump their rubbish on the side of the road.

I'm baffled as to why a minimum-charge regime should apply to what surely must be a user-pay scenario.

The only interaction I had with the service provider was with the worker on the weighbridge and I would have used up two minutes of their time - max.

Daylight robbery.

Andrew Lattimore
Tauranga

Community voices 'inspirational'

It was good to see so many Tauranga City Councillors at the Mount Maunganui Ratepayers, Residents and Retailers Association meeting on Tuesday night.

Even more notable was to listen to speakers who voiced the concept of a community wanting to plan its own suburb.

Wanting to live in an environment they conceived - rather than one foisted upon them by others.

Quite inspirational.

Maurice O'Reilly
Tauranga

Artist or criminal?

So let me get this right. If I send pictures or videos of naked men I could be liable to criminal charges.

Yet if I show the same pictures or videos in Te Papa, it's called art and that's okay.

It's a strange world we live in.

Robert England
Pāpāmoa

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