Under the service, which begins on July 1, there will be three new bins — a 140-litre green-lidded food and garden waste bin; a 140-litre red-lidded bin, to replace black rubbish bags; and a six-litre counter-top kitchen bin.
Instead of a 140-litre green bin houses and units with little or no garden can opt for a 23-litre green bin.
But according to the Dunedin City Council website, areas excluded stretched as far as from Princes St to Frederick St, with the immediate vicinity of the Octagon and a stretch of South Dunedin exempt from the scheme.
A council spokeswoman confirmed these areas would be excluded from the rollout of the service.
Residents in the CBD had access to purpose-built recycling hubs and did not pay targeted rates for kerbside recycling, she said.
"They do not receive the full kerbside recycling and rubbish collection service due to space constraints for kerbside bins and congestion that could be caused by the collection vehicles in these areas."
The areas in question at present received a rubbish collection service that emptied public litter bins.
Inner-city residents had access to three purpose-built recycling hubs — at the intersection of Moray Pl and View St, lower Moray Pl beside Countdown and beneath the Vogel St overbridge.
When asked if an exception to continuing the use of black plastic bags in the CBD would be made, the spokeswoman said the council was still working through the details of rubbish collection in the CBD and would update residents as soon as possible.
tim.scott@odt.co.nz , PIJF Cadet reporter
