Some of the Tauranga City Council glass recycling crew. Photo / Supplied
Tauranga City Council introduced a rates-funded glass recycling service in October last year following the decision by private waste companies to no longer offer this service.
Six months later, the council said in a written statement it is well on track to meet its goal of preventing 6000 tonnes of
glass unnecessarily going into landfill each year.
The council estimated the kerbside service had collected almost twice as much glass as previous collections and serviced on average 5500 households each day.
Waste contracts and compliance team leader Tim Senington said he was pleased that public uptake of the service had been higher than anticipated.
"The service has enabled and encouraged more people to recycle glass. On average, 65 per cent of residents use the service on their collection day and less than 1 per cent of all crates presented at the kerb are refused, mostly because they are too full or contain broken glass."
