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Tasman wasting opportunities to recycle rubbish Simon Bloomberg Reporter
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Tasman district residents are getting better at recycling, but all the good work is being undone as people keep generating more and more waste. Recycling has hit an all-time high, increasing by 28 per cent since the introduction of new Tasman district and Nelson city recycling bins in 2015. The total amount of recyclable material diverted from landfills through council kerbside recycling services in Nelson and Tasman annually is now 6500 tonnes, up from the 5656 tonnes recorded in 2010. However, Tasman’s utility network engineer David Stephenson says the amount of waste that ends up in landfills has increased from 55,000 tonnes in 2009-2010 to nearly 57,000 tonnes in 2015-20016. “Although our recycling is growing, we are not seeing less going to landfills because we are creating more waste,” David says. “We are consuming more and throwing more out because there are
so many disposable items.” David says one of the big contributors to waste is construction and demolition activity which accounts for 15,000 tonnes a year and mostly comes from commercial operators and building companies. Unless there are big changes in the building industry, David says that’s likely to keep increasing as the demand for new residential and commercial properties continues to grow. “There’s no easy answer to that problem because you have issues with time and space pressures in the construction industry. The priority for builders is meeting deadlines and not managing waste, which has very little value in the context of a building site anyway.” David says one of the easiest ways to reduce waste would be to target food waste which comprises almost 14 percent of material being sent to landfill. He says families waste, on average, 3.3kg of edible food per family per week, or 171kg per year, and that can easily be reduced by reducing waste generated,
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The Watson family, from left, Matt, Betty, Gary and Lisa with the original delivery bike that Ivan Watson used when he opened his first store in 1957. Photo: Simon Bloomberg.
Big birthday for Richmond’s favourite grocers Simon Bloomberg The Watson family will be celebrating 60 years of owning grocery stores and supermarkets in Richmond next month when FreshChoice Richmond runs a competi-
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tion giving shoppers the chance to win a $10,000 motorhome holiday. FreshChoice Richmond owners Gary and Lisa are the third generation of the family to own and operate a supermarket in the town. Gary’s grandfather Ivan and
his wife Lyalla started the dynasty when they incorporated their company IT Watson Ltd on November 27, 1957 and opened a grocery store on the corner of Queen and
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