On Saturday, the last exam for the year was held at the University of Otago and since then many Castle St residents have been packing up.
However, in doing so, they have left behind a sea of broken glass, furniture, broken televisions and a trampoline missing its legs seen yesterday.
One Wellington mother, here to help her daughter pack, said the mess on Sunday was worse.
"There was glass completely down the road ... this is clean, honestly, somebody has been up here and cleaned."
She did not understand why the university or council had not just stuck a bunch of skips in the area.
The singular skip was already full to overflowing early yesterday morning.
One all-girl flat in Castle St said they were dealing with other flats dumping outside theirs.
Neighbours had left eight sofas outside their flat before leaving over the weekend.
"It’s annoying — we don’t have a way to take eight couches to the dump and we don’t think we should have to do that either.
"It’s not fair."
Tenant Ieremia Morris said it was their rubbish, so they were going to clean it up.
He hoped the boys moving in next year would want a few of their leftover couches.
Dunedin City Council waste and environment solutions group manager Chris Henderson said he usually saw an increase in rubbish and mess in the student quarter at this time of year, "which was disappointing".
However, at this stage, the council was not planning to provide any additional services in the area.
"But our contractors are busy ... and our street sweepers have been diverted from their routine jobs in other parts of the city in the short term."
A University of Otago spokeswoman said the institution played an active role in supporting the council with waste management within the student quarter by operating and funding "diversion days", where several skips were provided for students.
The latest was 11 days ago.
"Five general waste hook bins were collected that day with more than 5 tonnes of rubbish taken off the street," she said.
The university also ran a "drop for good" pop-up store for students to donate unwanted items, at which the institution then attempted to educate them on waste management.
"Despite these significant efforts, it is very disappointing to see the large amount of waste that has been left in North Dunedin over the weekend.
"We are working closely with other key stakeholders to remedy the situation," she said.
