Garbage Collection Nielsen Park
by Project Coordinator 1:54pm, 18 February 2010Did you know that the NPWS collect and dispose of tonnes of garbage and recycling daily from Nielsen Park. This takes up the time of nearly two staff full time p.a. We would prefer that these staff were available to assist with other duties such as bush regeneration and walking track construction and maintenance of visitor facilities.
A suggestion has been made that the NPWS provide bins only for the kiosk garbage and recycling and that we ask our visitors to take their grabage and recycling home. Most visitors bring their food and drink in an esky or picnic basket and could easily take the rubbish home.
The proposal is to remove the bins, replace with signs to explain what was happening and provide staff to circulate amongst our visitors on weekends and weekdays to talk to them about the proposal. Large signs would also be provided at the major entrances.
We would like to hear your views.
Annoyed Comment 1
12:43pm, 8 April 2010
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Taking the bins away would be catastrophic. People will NOT take their garbage home with them. Visitors to the park, especially, on busy weekends, can be parked anywhere up to a kilometre away and would, therefore, definitely not want to carry any rubbish that far. As for recycling; that just won't happen especially if it means that they have to carry two or three different bags all that distance. As it is residents living in nearby streets regularly find garbage bags, bottles, dirty nappies-sooo disgusting - paper, plastic etc dumped on their nature strip or thrown over their fences. Are NPWS going to be cleaning up residents nature strips and properties?
Kim Comment 1.1
3:25pm, 23 May 2010
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I think you've said it all. If it takes 2 full time staff to clean up daily tons of rubbish when there ARE bins available, one could only imagine the thousands of tons of rubbish to pick up if the bins were eliminated. IF NPWS continues to promote greater usage of the park, it is obvious that basic infrastructure costs to support the extra usage would also be incurred. Simply put, even when bins are conveniently placed, visitors don't always use them and there is rubbish all over the beach and park on a busy weekend - if bins were taken away completely or made more inconvenient, the vast majority of people would not take their rubbish away with them. People do bring eskies and picnic baskets to the park and often idle their cars in front of the "no parking zones" to drop them off so they don't have to carry them from their parked cars which are often quite far away. They definitely wouldn't be returning for their rubbish!
roundup Comment 2
4:14pm, 26 May 2010
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When our local council pulled its bins out of parks some folk would take their rubbish with them, others wouldn't. The consequence was that the "good guys" cleaned up after the "bad guys". The council saved money by shifting the work onto anonymous volunteers.
Therefore I would see the objective as making things easy for the "good guys" if bins are removed: NPWS should position a skip type receptacle near the major exits which would enable rubbish to be binned where a contractor can collect it easily. Locals may object, but they will object anyway to everything.
it will still be necessary for NPWS to allocate resources to sweep up any leftovers but the good guys will be doing most of the work for free.
Kim Comment 2.1
8:18am, 15 June 2010
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There is no way the "good guys" could clean up all the rubbish after the "bad guys" at Nielsen Park - way too much rubbish!! If you've ever been to Nielsen Park, you would notice that the majority of the bins were already located very close to the entrance. The problem here is the huge amount of rubbish left behind by the huge amount of visitors to a beautiful area and the pros of continually promoting visitors to the park at the expense of the negatives that come along with greater usage.
