Palmy residents lighten their chemical load standard
Over a tonne of dangerous chemicals have been collected from Palmerston North residents at a free disposal day. The council-funded MyHazWaste event, run by chemical collection experts 3R Group through their ChemCollect service, saw close to 200 bookings and resulted in 1023kg of materials collected. ChemCollect Manager, Jason Richards, says this is up around 200kg on the same event held in the city in 2018. “We’re really happy with how the day went. The weather didn’t play ball, but we still got a good turnout and over a tonne of chemicals were safely collected for proper disposal,” he says. The number of people attending was also significantly up on 2018, with over 100 more bookings. “There is a huge amount ...
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