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<\/p>\nBags of household rubbish have been illegally discarded next to a “No Dumping” sign near a track in the Far North<\/p>\n
Six bags filled with trash \u2013 including empty bourbon cans, biscuit wrappers and a face mask \u2013 were dumped at the Dalton Track car park off Kerikeri Inlet Rd in Kerikeri last weekend, the Far North District Council said today on social media.<\/p>\n
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Bags of rubbish next to a ‘no dumping’ sign in Kerikeri. (Source: Far North District Council) (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n
The rubbish joined a litany of discarded bottles and packaging already dotting the gravel area.<\/p>\n
The discovery “prompted dismay from neighbours” \u2013 and brought a reminder that people caught illegally dumping rubbish and polluting the whenua would be fined hundreds of dollars.<\/p>\n
“People say that they don\u2019t pay for their rubbish \u2018cause it\u2019s too expensive but these people have got money \u2013 there\u2019s Woodstock bourbons, there\u2019s Lindt chocolate, there\u2019s a whole lot of stuff here that not only could be recycled for free but are really expensive to buy and I think that they\u2019ve got enough money for that,” the council’s rubbish and recycling expert Simon Millichamp said.<\/p>\n
“You\u2019d hope that they\u2019d have enough money to pay three bucks to get rid of their bag of rubbish.”<\/p>\n
The council was enforcing fines of up to $400 for anyone caught dumping rubbish and other household items. <\/p>\n
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Bags of rubbish in Kerikeri. (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n
Millichamp called on locals to “do the responsible thing” and separate their recycling \u2013 and encourage their friends and wh\u0101nau to do the same. <\/p>\n
“That message is so much better coming from you rather than coming from council and if we all encourage people we know to do the right thing, it\u2019ll not only look after our environment but also save us all as ratepayers money.”<\/p>\n
He advised anyone still unsure how to dispose of items to check the Far North District Council website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bags of household rubbish have been illegally discarded next to a “No Dumping” sign near a track in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,1067,69,213],"class_list":["post-479778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-northland","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}