…before you order your skip bin at www.bookabin.co.nz consider the following:

If your household fills one large wheelie bin per week (equivalent to 5 bags of rubbish) you probably throw away enough:

• Kitchen scraps and garden waste in a year to make almost one and a half trailer loads of compost
• Paper and cardboard in a year to make a stack of magazines 40 metres high
• Recyclable plastic in a year to fill at least 25 wheelbarrows

In New Zealand, all of our rubbish is buried in landfill sites. The problem is that we don’t have enough existing landfills to cope with the increasing amount of rubbish we’re throwing away. While we need landfills to manage some of our rubbish, over half of the rubbish we put in our rubbish bags can be recycled or composted - the more recycling and composting we all do, the less we will need landfills to provide a ‘final’ solution to rubbish.

Tip #1: Putting your kitchen scraps down the waste disposal unit doesn’t make them go away - all you’re doing is shifting the disposal problem to someone else. Try to compost your scraps instead.

Tip #2: Burning rubbish isn’t a solution - it pollutes the air and may release toxic substances. Composting and recycling are healthier options for you, your neighbours and the environment.

While landfills effectively contain our rubbish, did you know that:

• Rubbish doesn’t break down very well in a landfill. Plastic, steel, aluminum and even paper and cardboard take tens or hundreds of years to break down
• As garden rubbish and kitchen scraps break down in a landfill they produce methane. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas (20 times worse than carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas) and can reach explosive concentrations in enclosed spaces such as basements
• Rainwater percolating through the landfill and the breakdown of garden rubbish and kitchen scraps contribute to a liquid called leachate. In old landfills, leachate can escape and contaminate surface and groundwater. In modern, well-managed landfills it costs a lot of money to collect and treat the leachate
• While modern landfills don’t tend to cause dust or odor problems, nobody wants to live near one

In the end it’s our actions that will decide the issue. We can each make a difference by taking some easy steps to reduce our rubbish.

(Information above sourced from www.reducerubbish.govt.nz check out this website for more useful information!)

This blog is dedicated to answering one of the most frequently asked questions: “What time will my bin be delivered?”

All of our suppliers are aware that they should be delivering the bins before 11:30am and picking them up before 2:00pm. However, sometimes they can be running a bit behind schedule. If this happens, feel free to contact the supplier directly. When you book the bin you will receive a confirmation email with all your supplier’s details.

If you have a specific time that you would like the bin to be delivered and picked up, you can call the supplier once you have booked the bin to organise this. We have found that all our suppliers are most accommodating with customer requests. There is also the option of expressing your requirements in the extra comment box, which you will come across in the booking process. Either way your requirements will be met!!!

This is a question that is regularly asked by customers before they book their skip bin. Usually customers are looking to see that the skip bin will fit down their driveway or into a specific space on their section.

To have an average sized skip (a 9 meter) delivered onto your section you will need a driveway that is at least 3 meters wide, if the skip bin is larger, the access space will also need to be wider.

The size of the skip bin could vary from 2 meters all the way up to 30 meters depending on the waste they have to dispose of.

www.bookabin.co.nz works as an agent for a large variety of skip suppliers across New Zealand to ensure that customers are serviced by a local supplier.

Sometimes the supplier’s stock varies in how it look’s, meaning the shape of a bin might be different from what is imagined. On the website, images are indicative of volume only; actual dimensions may vary depending on the skip supplier that is servicing the order. This means that the image will give the customer an idea of how much waste will fit into the bin. When the bin arrives, the shape may look different, it may have shorter sides and a larger base or visa versa, but it will hold the same volume.

Walk In, Trailer Bin, Opening Doors, Closing Lid….these are some of the features that are often required for certain waste disposal. Once a bin is booked through www.bookabin.co.nz it is recommended that customers contact their skip bin supplier directly to find out more about these features as not all bin’s supplied will have these features.

Keep in mind the cheapest bins will book out first so get in fast to get the best deal on skip hire, visit www.bookabin.co.nz now!!

I hope you have all prepared for the gloomy weather that is to set upon New Zealand in what is bound to be another dreary winter.

“What can I do to keep myself occupied?” you ask. Well one simple suggestion, is to hire a bin from bookabin and start cleaning out the hoards of junk around the house. What better project is there to do than to sort out all the knick knacks that you have somehow managed to collect over the years? Or maybe you are in the middle of a renovation and have had this thought, “where to put all this rubbish?” Then boy do we have the solution for you…BOOKABIN!!

If we have convinced you to start the madness of a HUGE clean out, or simply helped you figure out how to dispose of all the renovation leftovers littering your front lawn, then log on to our website www.bookabin.co.nz and start booking! We have every size bin for every type of waste available, thanks to our many incredibly efficient suppliers located up and down the country.