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sarahm 
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Posted: 15 November 2010 at 8:07am |
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has anyone done research into what is the best way to get rid of it?
eg, regular bag or bin collection
make a weekend of it and hire a skip
take it to the dump etc
TlA
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FreeSpirit
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Posted: 15 November 2010 at 8:18am |
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It really depends on what you mean by garden rubbish.
All the rubbish I get from my garden is green matter (grass clippings, branchs, weeds etc) which I compost or plastic (seedling trays from garden centre, bags from compost) which I recycle - about a boot load once a year.
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sarahm
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Posted: 15 November 2010 at 9:06am |
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basically, weeds, grass clippings, a tree we want to chop down (will keep big bits for firewood) hedge clippings etc
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kebakat
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Posted: 15 November 2010 at 9:22am |
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Does AK not have a place to dispose of green waste? throwing it in the trash just means it sits at landfills for years.
We compost loads and then branches etc that will take too long to compost or trees etc we take to our green waste tip
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mummy_becks
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Posted: 15 November 2010 at 10:28am |
We have a wheelie bin for rubbish and our weeds go in there. Other than that everything else is in the compost and we shred the branches for the compost too.
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jano1
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Posted: 15 November 2010 at 3:01pm |
What kind of weeds do you have? The tip will only take some types.
Places like living earth will take your garden waste and turn it into compost- might want to give them a ring.
If you have invasive weeds and live in west Auckland there are weed bins- check the old Waitakere City website for locations 
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Plushie
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Posted: 15 December 2010 at 10:14am |
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when we do a big garden clear out (including trees like you said you were going to do) we would hire a wood chipper, they're not that expensive, and just run everything that wasnt firewood through it. We have compost bins here that are collected by the council so it just went into that after.
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mummyofprinces
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Posted: 03 February 2011 at 10:59am |
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Sarah we use greenfingers.co.nz, we get a bag collected every 8 weeks, its $108 for 6 collections.
We are probably going to start composting now the vege garden is up and running, the cheaper option :)
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MummyFreckle
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Posted: 03 February 2011 at 2:36pm |
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We use Sunshine Bags, and have a 240l Wheely bin they collect once a month and its $100 for 12 collections.
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kiwi2
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Posted: 06 February 2011 at 11:00am |
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We have a wheely bin with red bins. It gets collected once a month and is $12 a collection. All our compost type matter goes in there. When we chopped a tree down we took it to the green waste tip which was $25 a trailer load. We had it packed so that it was taller than a van so quite good value. We had four trips that day. It was a big tree.
Hope that helps.
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