Poll: Could we live without public bins?

The Team from Neighbourly.co.nz

Many public rubbish bins are being removed by councils due to the large costs of regularly emptying them. Do you think we can adapt and live without them?

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Could we live without public bins?

• Yes
• No
• Other - I'll share below

Vote View Results

• 11.9% Yes
  11.9% Complete
• 87.5% No
  87.5% Complete
• 0.5% Other - I'll share below
  0.5% Complete

1508 votes

Are you a first home buyer?

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Warren’s Bus Shelter Mission

Edmund Hillary Retirement Village

A six-year campaign to get a bus shelter installed on a busy Auckland road has finally come to fruition - and it’s all thanks to the one-man mission of Edmund Hillary Retirement Village resident Warren Barrett.

It was no mean feat, with the 88-year-old retired engineer collecting hundreds of petition signatures from fellow village residents and writing dozens of emails to 80 different people at Auckland Transport over that time.

“I just wouldn’t let it go,” he grins.

“Most people would have given up I suppose. I had nothing else better to do!” he laughs.

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