Greymouth port team leader Franco Horridge said his staff were now picking up takeaway rubbish each evening and morning.
"People go there for peace, quiet and solace. It's a place of recreation, and it's ruined by takeaway wrappers."
The tiphead does not have bins as people have in the past used them to dump household rubbish, or set fire to them.
Greymouth Mayor Tania Gibson, who pushed early in the lockdown to get the tiphead roads closed, said with the move back to level 3 it was appropriate to reopen the tiphead roads given the relaxed conditions on people being able to undertake some forms of recreation close to home.
Grey District Council assets and engineering manager Mel Sutherland said the large concrete blocks used to block the roads had been removed from the carriageway but left at the tipheads meantime in case.
