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A Lake Takapō/Tekapo resident has collected a trailer load of building rubbish that has blown onto his property over a six-month period.
A Lake Takapō/Tekapo resident is angry at the amount of rubbish blowing off construction sites onto his property and the surrounding environment over the past two years. “Pretty much every day we’ll have a fresh piece of rubbish in our backyard if it’s been windy. Every day you look out the window and you see another piece of rubbish there that wasn’t there yesterday,” he said. “It’s worthwhile having a look into the river bed, where these two big stacks of polystyrene went. It’s quite appalling; they’ll end up in the waterways. You just don’t like to see our pristine environment destroyed.”