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FAQs

Why do I need to disconnect power before working on my spa pool?

• Disconnecting power ensures your safety by eliminating the risk of electrical shock or injury from active electrical components in and around the spa pool.

2. Can I simply unplug the spa pool from the outlet?

• No not always , unplugging the spa pool from the outlet does not necessarily disconnect all power. You must turn off the circuit breaker or disconnect switch to ensure all electrical components are de-energized.

3. What are the dangers of not disconnecting power before maintenance or dismantling?

• Without disconnecting power, you risk electrical shock or burns from live electrical components. There is also a danger of unintentionally activating the spa’s systems, such as pumps or heaters, which could cause accidents.

4. How often should I check the electrical components of my spa pool?

• It’s recommended to schedule regular inspections of the spa pool’s electrical components according to manufacturer guidelines or local regulations. This ensures everything is in good working order and safe to use.

5. What should I do if I’m unsure about disconnecting power from my spa pool?

• If you’re unsure or uncomfortable with the process, it’s best to contact a qualified electrician or spa technician. They have the expertise to safely disconnect power and perform maintenance or repairs.

6. Can I drain the spa pool before disconnecting power?

• It’s generally safe to drain the spa pool before disconnecting power, but ensure all electrical components are de-energized before beginning any work.

Following these guidelines and understanding the importance of disconnecting power before dismantling your spa pool. If you have any further questions or concerns, don’t hesitate to contact us at 0800 386 763 or email us at info@0800dumpme.co.nz

Step 1:  Collect Your Electronics

First things first, gather all your old electronics/E Waste  This includes things like broken TVs, outdated computers & laptops, broken gaming consoles, and any other electronic devices cluttering your house or garage.

Step 2: Check for Reuse or Recycling Options

Before disposing of your electronics , consider whether any of  these items can be reused or recycled. Alternatively, many electronic stores and manufacturers offer recycling programs where you can drop off your old device.

Step 3: Prepare Your Electronics for Recycling

Before recycling or disposing of your gadgets and E waste, make sure to remove any personal data. Clean your devices, delete or perform a factory reset if applicable. This is to ensure your privacy is protected.

Step 4: Drop Off Your Electronics

Once everything is ready, take your electronics to recycling places or drop-off points. Some councils in Auckland have designated e-waste collection centers  or permanent drop-off facilities. Check with your local council for details on where and when you can drop off your electronics. https://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/rubbish-recycling/Pages/default.aspx
If you don’t have access to drop-off facilities or want to save time, we can handle the disposal of your gadgets. At 0800 Dump Me, we manage the disposal of your E waste  or electronics, along with  any junk like  household waste, garden waste ,office junk, renovation waste . With our rubbish removal service we will  recycle as much as possible. Call us today at 0800 386 763 or email us at info@0800dumpme.co.nz for a free quote.

The items you should not put into your recycling bin:

Plastic bags

Chip and cookie packets / Plastic Straws

Batteries

Gas bottles

Single use paper cups

Face masks and gloves

All fabrics/ Towels/ Clothes/ Curtains

Stuffed toys

Bricks

Glassware

Electrical items (Hose and wires)

Medical waste

Tyre

Paint cans

Mirror / light bulbs / window glass

Polystyrene

Food waste

Garden waste

These items either clog the machine, cause fires in the pick up trucks or can not be recylced.

What CAN go into your recycling bin:

(Please rinse items before you place them in your recycling bin)

Pizza boxes (without food inside)

Hard plastic food trays

Tins

Liquid paper board cartons

Plastic takeaway containers

Plastic cookie trays

Broken glass bottles

Glass bottles / glass jars

Plastic bottles/cartons

Cardboard

Paper / newspaper / magazines / Glossy advertising material

Egg cartons

Where can I take my soft plastics?

Some stores around Auckland have special soft plastic recycling bins that anyone can place their soft plastics into.

If you can’t find a soft recycling station near your home then please place them into your rubbish bin.

Where can I recycle my gas bottle and batteries?

Gas bottles can be taken to your local transfer station or community recycling centre

Wondering how to get ride of the other items that can’t go into your recycle bin?

Go to Auckland Council website or go here – HOW TO GET RID OF UNWANTED ITEMS

The driver quickly noticed, pulled over and quickly discharged the burning rubbish out of the truck. Fortunately, the driver and the truck came out unharmed.

The fire was said to have started by an old battery in the rubbish.

This is not the first time this has happened. In the last few months, three trucks have had a similar experience.

How can this be prevented?

Do not throw your old batteries into the council collection bin.

Any batteries you want to throw away can be safely disposed of by our team.

Why are batteries hazardous?

Batteries contain hazardous liquid that can easy catch of fire, as well as, harm the environment if they are placed in landfill and the liquid leaks out.

Can you safely dispose of our batteries?

Yes, we can come pick them up for you!

Our team ensures that your batteries are handled with care and recycled responsibly.

We can take AAA, AA and car batteries.

Ask our staff if you have a specific battery that you want disposed of today.

What happens to the batteries?

The batteries are recycled.

Most batteries contain lead and sulfuric acid which can be separated and recycled into new items.

 Sources: Stuff

However, disposing of electronics and hazardous waste in kerbside bins is dangerous and must not be done.

Why can’t you put your electronic waste and hazardous waste in kerbside bins?

1. Dangerous for the rubbish trucks

Many people don’t realize that everything that is in your kerbside bin gets crushed or compacted once in some rubbish trucks to produce more space on the truck for more rubbish to be collected before it is taken to the dump.

Therefore, if you place electronic waste or hazardous waste into your bin, and it is compacted in the truck, the hazardous waste liquid, which is flammable, can burst open and go everywhere in the back of the truck.

Electronic waste also becomes dangerous when the compression in the truck rips the wires and opens the electronics.

Both electronic and other hazardous waste once compressed can cause a fire in the truck.

That’s why these items should never be put in your kerbside bin collection.

1. Hazardous waste can cause a tip fire

You are probably thinking that you have never seen a rubbish truck on fire, so this must not happen often, therefore you don’t have to worry about it.

Although, just because it doesn’t happen often in the trucks, it doesn’t mean a fire can’t start when the waste is dumped at the tips. There have been many occasions where a fire has started because hazardous waste was placed in a kerbside bin, been brought back to the tip, dumped and a fire has started due to people not disposing hazardous waste in the proper manner.

Remember everything you put in your kerbside bin ends up at a tip and any hazardous waste or electronic waste you put in, can lead to a fire.

Dumps prevent fires by separating hazardous waste from the other rubbish and its our responsibility as a customer to do the same.

1. Recycling helps keep the waste down / build new items

Taking your electronic waste to specific recycling stores helps in many ways.

Electronics can have wiring, metal and other good materials that can be recycled and reused for other items that are being produced. Therefore, instead of most of the old electronics going into landfill, the parts can be reused.

If everyone brought their electronics to a recycling place, there would be less waste, less fires, it would help us all be more environmentally friendly and we could use the resources we already have to our advantage.

What is electronic hazardous waste?

Electronic waste is anything that is electrical. Some examples of electronic waste are laptops, computers, printers, hair dryers, heaters, fans, vacuums, toasters, blenders and kettles.

What are types of other hazardous waste?

Old chemicals, poisons, oils, adhesives and paints are the main types of hazardous waste that are usually sitting around residential homes.

Hazardous waste can be spotted by looking at the can or bottle of the product and if you spot phrases such as “dangerous,” “warning,” “caution,” “poison,” or “do not dispose in household rubbish,” then your item is hazardous.

These hazardous items must not be placed into general household waste bins and instead be disposed and dropped off to the correct hazardous waste companies, where they will be disposed of in a safe and environmentally friendly way.

These other hazardous waste items are also known to burst causing fires and other problems.

What can I do with my hazardous waste?

If you are looking for a way to dispose of your hazardous waste and electrical waste in an environmentally friendly way, contact us. We will let you know if we can come, pick up and dispose of all your hazardous waste for you.

If there are some hazardous waste items we do not take, we will try to help you find a place that does.

What companies take electronic waste?

We can also come and collect your electronic waste for you.

We do not accept drop offs, therefore, if you would like to drop off your items go here or to www.computerrecycling.co.nz. 

For an estimate quote go here. 

On September 19^th one person in a Christchurch isolation facility tested positive for Covid -19 and spend 14 days in isolation.

After the 14 days and testing negative twice, the person flew from Christchurch to Auckland on September the 11^th and infected one other person on the flight.

So how did this happen?

Through contact tracing, the ministry of health believes that the first person that tested negative twice before leaving isolation contracted the sickness at the end of their stay through touching a rubbish bin in the quarantine facility.

Dr Caroline McElnay, the director of public health states “While we cannot be certain, our hypothesis is that the virus may have been transmitted to a person … via the surface of a rubbish bin, which was used by another returnee who was likely infectious at the facility.”

The cc footage at the isolation facility has shown that the rubbish bin was the common source of contact between the two people before one of them left isolation.

An intense investigation found that no other person has been infected on the flight or by the two flight cases in the community.

While this case is unique and happened in isolation, reminders of hand hygiene is being emphasised more and more.

So how does this affect you?

While you may think no one touches your private rubbish bin when you place it on the curb, this may not be the case. Many people can walk pass and touch your rubbish bin without your knowledge.

Therefore, it is important to sanitize your inside and outside bins with disinfectant wipes or spray. On top of this, washing your hands after you touch your rubbish bin is important to prevent the spread of germs.

Likewise, avoid touching the surface of public waste bins when throwing away your rubbish when out and about.

Remember if everyone washes their hands, the spread of covis-19 will decrease significantly.

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There is no doubt that Covid -19 slowed down and effected waste organizations and businesses, therefore, Eugenie Sage says the focus for this year’s funding from the waste minimisation fund is now falling on “upgrading waste systems so they are resilient for the future” and working with “10 to 20 projects of strategic importance to waste minimisation as New Zealand responds to Covid-19.”

The result of the proposal is said to bring about more jobs and reduce the large amount of waste going into landfills.

However, the waste minimisation fund retrieves its money from levy charges from landfills, therefore, if the government wants to increase the waste minimisation fund to reduce waste, reuse and recycle more efficiently, the landfill charges will increase for average kiwis.

This means residential rubbish bags and bin costs could increase by 33 cents per bag/bin, going from $2.50 a bag to $2.83 a bag.

Not only that, but the landfill charge would increase from $10 a tonne to $60 a tonne, which means simply taking your rubbish to the tip gets more and more expensive, resulting in the government waste minimisation fund making up to $250 million extra a year up from the already $220 million it already receives.

The definition of the waste minimisation fund is said to provide “funding for projects that promote or achieve waste minimisation” and “helps increase resource efficiency, reuse, recovery and recycling, and decrease waste to landfill.”

The fund money will be spilt, half of the money will go to the local councils to spend “in accordance with their waste management and minimisation plans” while the other half of the money will be managed by the ministry for the environment.

“The purpose of the act is to encourage waste minimisation and a decrease in waste disposal.” – Eugenie Sage.

The new proposal isn’t supported by everyone, the Taxpayers’ Union have said the new proposal is a “revenue grab that will hammer poorer taxpayers.”

While Louis Houlbrook also disapproved saying that it will have a harsh financial impact on bigger households in poorer areas.

However, unless the fund supports new recycling indicatives and finds a new way to recycle ALL recyclable materials locally, not internationally, then the higher taxes for the landfill won’t help reduce waste in the landfill or reduce waste period.

Resources:

Stuff

One News

Green

MFE

New Zealand council waste bins such as the 120-litre household rubbish bins and the 240 litre recycling bins have been in most cities around New Zealand for a long time. Although, there are some places in New Zealand where you don’t need to use a specific bin to put recycling in and many places do not have organic bins just yet.

Recently two city council teams are trying to improve household waste management by taking the opportunity to introduce new bins to homes.

Waiheke Island in Auckland are introducing new 240 litre recycling wheelie bins to all residence that pay a waste charge, that do not already have one. Previously, residences were allowed to store their recycling in wooden crates, plastic bags and other storage boxes to be collected during roadside waste collection. However, now the council is discarding the old method and only collecting and empty recycling bins. This will happen before June 30^th this year.

Residence are still allowed to put their household general rubbish in special brought rubbish bags for collection. However, these bags will be changed from a red to orange colour. Also, if residence would like a 120-litre bin for their rubbish, they are encouraged to request and change to a wheelie bin.

This change is in an effort to reduce plastic bag usage when storing recycling and to encourage recycle goods to be recycled and not end up in landfill. Reducing landfill waste by reusing goods is the first step to keeping unnecessary items out of landfill and being more environmentally conscience.

Waimate District in Canterbury are also in the process of making changes to their waste collection services. The council are looking into changing their rubbish bins from the general two bin system to a four-bin system.

Instead of just collecting the recycling bin and the rubbish bin, they are trying to put into place an organic, rubbish, recycling and glass bin collection system for all households that have council bins.

The final decision about the bin changes will happen on August 18^th and the new contract will be discussed on July, 1^st 2021.

This is great news for residence of Waimate District and Waiheke Island. Of course, for the rest of us that have recycling bins, we need to be more conscience of what we put into our recycling bins.

During lockdown, recycling habits have grown increasing worse, as households are throwing non-recyclables into their recycling bins.

Waste Manage Institute of New Zealand completed a report called “The truth about plastic recycling in Aotearoa New Zealand.” The report discusses kiwi’s recycling habits and how New Zealand as a whole, needs to improve our recycling.

One of the most shocking results from their study was “the average kiwi household uses 941 plastic containers or bottles per year (extrapolated, this suggests there is an estimated 1.76 billion containers per annum from all households). Of these, 41 per cent by item count could potentially be recycled, but instead end up in landfill.”

On top of this, kiwi households get confused about which plastics should be placed in the recycling bin, which results in the items ending up in landfill instead of being recycled.

This problem can only be solved if all households read the recycling chart and know what goes into the recycling bin and what does not.

Overall, New Zealand’s recycling method isn’t bad, it just needs to be improved. Kiwi households can help by learning which different recycling items need to be placed in the recycling bins and placing only recycling items in it. Likewise, city councils around New Zealand can help by making recycling bins available to all New Zealand regions no matter where they live, as they are starting to do so.

If you need any information about what goes into your recycling bin go to https://www.wasteminz.org.nzwp

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