'Mayoral candidate Roger Stratford, who wore green gloves throughout the meeting, perhaps offered the afternoon's biggest curveball to deal with an issue highlighted by the Waikato Times last week.
How to deal with the wet wipes "just flushed down the toilet blocking the people" [sic].
He said council should hand each household a plastic bag with QR codes to be filled with used wet wipes which could be attached to the red rubbish bins.
Then, refunds are paid into Paypal accounts. "Hopefully that's clear," he said.'
Clarity: The QR codes, identifying the household, would be embossed onto each posted plastic bag, which are tied to the handle of the red bin once full of used wipes. The QR codes are scanned by the driver's rubbish truck companion and the information sent to provide a credit to the pre-registered user's PayPal account. This would encourage responsible disposal of wet wipes, without resort to offensive public information slogans.
Comment: the word 'pipes' in "blocking the pipes" was wrongly transcribed as 'people'.