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23/11/2023

2023 Christmas Holidays and New Years service updates

December 2023 - January 2024

Changes to service over Christmas and New Year:


BRANCHES


Ashburton Office will be closed – 25th & 26th Dec 2023 and 1st & 2nd Jan 2024

Frontload Services - will operate during the Xmas period 26th Dec – 30th Dec and 2nd Jan – 6th Jan

Gantry Services – will cease from 23rd Dec and resume on 4th Jan 2024.

 

Auckland Office will be closed – 25 Dec 2023 and 1st Jan 2024

Frontload Services – Will not operate on the 25th Dec and 1st Jan, any collections scheduled on either of these days will be completed the following day

Gantry Services and Huka Services – will not operate on the 25th Dec 2023 and 1st Jan 2024, any collections scheduled on either of these days will be completed on the following day

Scheduled Commercial Handybins will be completed as normal

Garden Wheelie service will operate one day delayed between 25th Dec – 6th Jan 2024.


Christchurch Office will be closed – 25th Dec & 26th Dec and 1st Jan & 2nd Jan

All services – Any services for Christmas day will be done on Saturday 23rd or if closed caught up on the 27th Dec.


Dunedin Office will be closed – 25th & 26th Dec 2023 and 1st – 2nd Jan 2024

Gantry Services will not be operating on 25th & 26th Dec 2023 and 1st & 2nd Jan 2024

Frontload and commercial handybin services will not be operating 25th Dec 2023

Residential Handybin services will not be operating 25th Dec 2023 – these services will be moved to Saturday 30th Dec 2023

Residential Handybin services will not be operating 1st Jan 2024 – these services will be moved to Saturday 6th Jan 2024.


Gisborne

Office will be closed - 25th & 26th Dec 2023 and 1st – 2nd Jan 2024

No services will be operating on 26th & 27th Dec 2023 and 1st & 2nd Jan 2024.


Kapiti

Office will be closed – 25th & 26th Dec 2023 and 1st – 2nd Jan 2024

No services will be operating on 25th Dec 2023 and the 1st Jan 2024.

 

Masterton Office will be closed – 25th Dec – 8th Jan 2024

Wheelie Bins – Due for collection on Monday 25th Dec will be done on Tuesday 26th Dec, all other days will operate as normal

– Due for collection on Monday 1st Jan will be done on Tuesday 2nd Jan, all other days will operate as normal

Frontload

– No collections on 26th Dec, normal collection 27th Dec –30th Dec

Gantry Services

– No collection on 27th Dec – 30th Dec, normal collections will resume on 3rd Jan.

 

Nelson

The office will be closed 25th & 26th Dec 2023 and 1st – 2nd Jan 2024

All services will operate as normal.

 

New Plymouth

The office will be closed 25th & 26th Dec 2023 and 1st – 2nd Jan 2024.

 

Otorohanga

Office will be closed 25th & 26th Dec 2023 and 1st – 2nd Jan 2024

All services will operate as normal.

The recycle centre will be closed on 25th Dec and 1st Jan.


Palmerston North & Wanganui

The office will be closed 25th & 26th Dec 2023 and 1st – 2nd Jan 2024

All services booked for Monday 25th Dec will be completed on Saturday 23rd Dec

All services booked for Monday 1st January will be completed on Saturday 30th Dec.


Taupo

The office will be closed 25th & 26th Dec 2023 and 1st – 2nd Jan 2024

All services will operate as normal with the exception of Christmas day.


Tauranga

Office will be closed – 25th & 26th Dec 2023 and 1st – 2nd Jan 2024

Gantry services will not operate on 25th Dec – 27th Dec and 2nd – 3rd Jan. All other services will operate as normal.


Timaru

Office will be closed 25th & 26th Dec 2023 and 1st – 2nd Jan 2024

For our commercial customers Frontload services will not operate 25th Dec & 1st Jan.

Huka services will not operate between 24th Dec to 8th Jan.

 

Tokoroa

Office will be closed – 25th Dec – 4th Jan.

 

Waikato

Office will be closed – 25th & 26th Dec and 1st Jan & 2nd Jan

Gantry services will not operate on 25th – 26th Dec and 1st – 2nd Jan

All other services will operate as normal.


Lower Hutt, Porirua, Upper Hutt - Commercial and Residential

Monday 25th December – No collections. Please have your bin out Tuesday 26th Dec

Monday 1st January – No collections. Please have your bin out Tuesday 2nd January.


Wellington - Commercial and Residential

Monday 25th December – No collections. Please have your bin out Saturday 30th December

Monday 1st January – No collections. Please have your bin out Saturday 6th January.


Kapiti - Commercial and Residential

Monday 25th December – No collections. Please have your bin out Saturday 23rd December

Monday 1st January – No collections. Please have your bin out Saturday 30th December.



TRANSFER STATIONS


Hokitika

Closed 25th Dec, 26th Dec and 1st Jan


Onehunga (Pikes Point) - Auckland

Closed 25th Dec and 1st Jan


Mairangi Bay

Closed 24th & 25th Dec and 31st & 1st Jan


Patiki Road

Closed 24th & 25th Dec and 31st & 1st Jan


Wiri - Auckland

Closed 25th Dec and 1st Jan


Pukekohe - Franklin

Closed 24th & 25th Dec and 31st & 1st Jan


Palmerston North

Closed 25/26 Dec and 1st Jan

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AI trial for hazard detection at Enviro NZ's Constellation Drive site

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6/7/2022

3 mins read

AI trial for hazard detection at Enviro NZ's Constellation Drive site

As a first step in developing its Multi Access Edge Compute capabilities, Spark has taken a Qrious-developed AI-powered computer vision pilot for Enviro NZ and enhanced it with 5G connectivity and local edge computing (AWS Snowball Edge). The pilot of the computer vision system helps solve a key business issue for Enviro NZ at its resource recovery centre identifying health and safety risks.  


Chris Aughton, CEO of Enviro NZ explains the company is embracing technology to solve their business challenges, “Safety is a constant focus for us. We have strong controls to protect people on our sites but we’re always working on how we can take it to the next level. In the past year we’ve seen instances at one of our resource recovery centres where members of the public have tried to retrieve something from a clearly signed and barrier protected no go area where our excavators work. Thankfully no one was injured. Our on site team constantly monitor for this type of situation but it got us thinking, could we use technology to make it easier for them? So we challenged Qrious to develop a cutting edge AI solution that could make our site safer by enabling us to anticipate and react immediately if someone bypasses our safety controls.”  


As a result, Qrious worked with Enviro NZ to develop a hazard detection system using AI to help them detect if people are too close to excavators working in the waste disposal area at a busy resource recovery centre. Using computer vision and IoT (Internet of Things) video cameras, it identifies and tracks people and excavators within a specified detection zone and calculates distances between them. The Qrious system can trigger alerts when a person is identified as being too close to an excavator.   


To help explore the potential of Multi Access Edge Compute within this pilot, the Enviro NZ video feed is transmitted over 5G connectivity to the cloud-based application hosted at the edge.   



The added benefit of adding edge compute to this mix allows data to transfer more quickly back to the cloud-based application to the 5G connected video camera, and therefore for hazards to be flagged more quickly.   


The hazard detection system has been running as a pilot for the last six months. Aughton says that results have been so successful that the business is now exploring extending the trial to a second site, “We’re hugely enthusiastic about the ability of this technology to alert our team to an incident as it is happening so we can instantly respond. We’re now looking to test it in different site situations.”   



Qrious, part of the Spark Business Group, is dedicated to New Zealand's growth as a digital nation, creating products and services that transform organisations and investing significantly in building local AI and data analytics skills and capability. Qrious CEO Stephen Ponsford says the company has helped numerous organisations use AI to automate repetitive processes, improve efficiencies and generate rapid insights, “By using AI to improve decision-making, speed, and efficiency, we can create new opportunities for businesses to think creatively, solve business challenges and innovate boldly.”  

 


The business value of Edge Computing  

While other use cases are still emerging, it’s clear that Multi Access Edge Compute minimises latency and network hops required to connect from a business cloud-edge application to an end user’s or IoT device.  



Mark Beder, Technology Director for Spark explains that lower-latency data processing over a 5G network will eventually deliver value to business applications involving machine learning, IoT, and video streaming.   



He continues, “We are looking for ways to bring the potential of 5G to life – demonstrating how faster throughput, lower latency and high levels of reliability can create tangible business outcomes. We are looking forward to working with the business community in the coming years to identify and test further use cases.” 

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