The Dunedin City Council promotional material for the consultation on Recycling changes (pdf here) features a smiling Solid Waste Manager, Ian Featherston, alongside the various "choices" of recycling bins. Anyone reading this material would expect to have a choice of bins, if the proposed scheme is implemented.
But in the official consultation proposal (pdf here), there is no choice: everyone must use the new 140-litre wheelie-bin, unless they apply and are approved on a "special needs" basis. In fact, the Council recently considered and rejected the suggestion, by Councillor Richard Walls, of giving house-holders a choice of bins (ODT story here).
It will be interesting to see how the Council deals with this apparent blunder, during the consultation process. It will be sensitive to criticism following the Parking fiasco.
I think that that choice of recycling bins would be a good thing because no size will suit everybody. There are thousands of households where a 140-litre wheelie-bin would not be suitable because they have steps or do not have room. Now that the "choice" genie is out of the bottle, it will be hard to put back in again.
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