An Enviro NZ spokeswoman said the company was advising its residential customers in the city that their present rubbish collection services would end on June 30 to coincide with the beginning of the new Dunedin City Council ratepayer-funded collection.
"Council is replacing most of its user-pays residential black bag collection with a new wheelie bin service and the delivery of the new bins is well under way," the spokeswoman said.
"Residents are receiving a 140-litre red-lidded wheelie bin for rubbish, collected fortnightly, as well as a green-lidded food scraps and garden waste bins, collected weekly.
"Enviro NZ welcomes this move by the Dunedin City Council, which will help meet the council’s waste minimisation targets.
"It also contributes towards the government’s vision for New Zealand to be a low-waste, low-emission society built on a circular economy by 2025."
Enviro NZ, formerly EnviroWaste, has a 10-year contract for the ratepayer-funded service.
An email from Enviro NZ to a customer, provided to the Otago Daily Times, said with the council’s changes the company expected customers to have questions.
It said the company was committed to providing the service "right up until our final collections in late June 2024".
"With bins replacing bags across the city, there won’t be the demand for our private residential service as there once was.
"So we will be scaling back our user-pays residential services.
"This means the wheelie bin service Enviro NZ provides you will end when the new council service begins," the email said.
In November, competitor Waste Management told the ODT it was not offering new wheelie bin contracts because there was a short period before the new council services started and the company had a low stock of bins.
At the time, an Enviro NZ spokeswoman said a residential wheelie bin provider had pulled out of the market, and Enviro NZ was waiting on new bins before taking on any new customers.
