The society is an Otago University Students’ Association club, and she was accompanied by society secretary Ashlee Drummy in the effort.
The cleanup was also supported by Let’s Get Trashed, another anti-litter environmental group.
Miss Moss-Mason, a third-year Otago botany student, said fewer people than usual were involved in the latest in a series of regular cleanup activities because some fellow students were away for the mid-semester break.
The latest rubbish was recovered from a park and bank area near the Hawthorn Ave-Queens Dr intersection, and showed some people persisted in dumping rubbish in a way that damaged the environment.
Paint cans, beer bottles and many other items of sundry litter had been recovered and removed from an area that had been repeatedly used for unauthorised tipping.
Dunedin’s streets were kept clean, but she was concerned that in some cases large amounts of rubbish had been deliberately thrown away over banks and just out of immediate sight.
"It’s indicative of a wider environmental crisis," she said.
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It will only get worse as the DCC charges more to get rid of rubbish and has a next to useless recycling system.
What, you're not prepared to pay for the disposal of the rubbish you create? Stop making excuses for litter bugs. Make the minimum fine $1000 per item and name and shame the culprits. Dump fees will seem cheap then.
Or reduce the amount of rubbish you buy.
Having just travelled from Invercargill to Christchurch in the last week, we stopped at all the recycle stores along the way. The stand out LOSER of them is Dunedin. Putting aside for a moment that Dunedin's was the ONLY one that was CLOSED and had pointless coned chicanes, no doubt in the name of H&S fear mongering. All the others we visited had a great range of recycled goods up for sale at reasonable prices. I commented in one site that this was way better than Dunedin and someone in the que behind (yes a que!) said that they had heard that Dunedin's was hopeless. I much prefer to buy older, sturdier, repairable items than modern, inferior products that are often imported from the far east. I have lost count of the amount of times I have asked to buy something from the Dunedin site, only to be told "we can't sell those due to H&S".
Is Dunedin council serious amount recycling or not?
The evidence suggests not. Too many managers looking for ways to make themselves indispensable, at the detriment of the community. Here's a tip, put a sign up saying "All goods sold are at the buyers risk" and then let the grown adults in the community make the decisions for themselves.
David is 100% correct - Grizz Fines no longer appear to work, in this PC world IMHO we have the following to blame a. now adults who were never taught every action has a reaction. b. No smacking yes no smacking so we have adults know who have grown up to be bogans. c. Councils creative accounting over the years and making rate payers pay for services that no longer do what they once done Rubbish collections in this case. d, Councils again removing rubbish bins through out the city/town, this has caused this and los of jobs. But the council and other councils refuse to be accountable and change this. Over seas councils have a active department doing what these people are doing, picking up rubbish, but the DCC is cheap.