Linz land contractors Colliers International spoke to the Central Otago District Council's community services committee yesterday about its work on the crown land over the summer.
Colliers property manager Rose Quirk said the new BigBelly bins installed by the council in high visitor areas were causing more problems than before.
Last year, the Central Otago District Council approved the addition of BigBelly bins, which compact 125 litres, to high-usage sites in Central Otago.
Rubbish bins had been taken out of freedom camping sites because rubbish kept piling up when the bins were full.
When there were no rubbish bins at the freedom camping sites, campers would take the rubbish away with them.
The council thought the BigBelly bins would be a solution and would help campers dispose of their rubbish and installed them in February.
The bins are solar-powered and have a sensor that closes the bin when full and sends a message back to the contractor advising that it needs emptied.
However, campers and even local residents were still piling up extra rubbish outside the new bins when they were full.
Mayor Tim Cadogan said he was ''furious'' about it, and the answer might be to take the bins away all together.
''I was just so disappointed ... I used to think more rubbish bins was the answer but I am going quite the opposite now.''
Deputy mayor Neil Gillespie said he had heard of residents piling up rubbish at the new bins to save time and not going into Cromwell's transfer station.
''They are not for local residents to use for that purpose.''
Ms Quirk said, over the week of Easter, 2000 vehicles stayed at the Lowburn site and contractors were removing 400kg of rubbish from the site a day.
Ms Quirk said January was the busiest time at the sites, with about 1700 vehicles a week at Lowburn and 1400 at Bendigo.
Both Ms Quirk and the committee said they would talk to Linz about how the problem could be solved.
