28 March 2017

Media: Te Karere

Topic: Mountain Road rubbish

Inquiry

Te Karere requested an interview with Waste and Transport Director, Stavros Michael

1. What do you make of this situation?

2. How horrendous was it when you discovered it?

3. What needs to happen now?

4. How can we keep on top of this issue?

5. Toby Curtis states that if it were council owned grounds and not iwi grounds this wouldn't have occurred, what do you make of his comments?

6. CCTV cameras to be installed?

7. Final words?

Response

Stavros met with Te Karere to give the interview - he focussed on three key things:

- It takes a lot of time, money and effort to organise such large clean ups like the one on Mountain Road

- illegal dumping is a community issue and education is where we need to focus

- Councils is working with iwi and other groups finding ways to clean up areas and educate the communtiy