Palmerston North City Council (PNCC) recently took up our challenge to try a new approach to hazardous household waste events.
The traditional method of open slather one day a year is a headache for all involved - unknown volumes and types of hazardous waste, increasing health and safety issues associated with traffic management and chemical handling, capped off by an unknowable final cost. ChemCollectTM general manager Jason Richards decided a fresh approach was needed.
The outcome is the MyHazWaste service for local councils. A fully-managed hazardous waste event with a strong focus on education which allows councils to set, and keep to, a budget, while reducing risk from every angle.
Residents are asked to pre-register their chemicals online or by phone, and are provided with information about existing pathways for substances not accepted on the day, such as paint, gas cylinders, e-waste, etc.
It was great to hold our first MyHazWaste event, a free event for Palmerston North residents funded by the council, on Saturday, 16 June.
The day went off without a hitch, with some 80 bookings resulting in just over 800kg of hazardous material collected and safely disposed of. Over 85% of all bookings were made via the simple online booking system.
A big thanks to PNCC for helping us prove the success of our new offering.
If this sounds like a service your council would be interested in, check out MyHazWaste.kiwi or give Jason a call on 021 922 540.