If Whanganui is to compete for the most beautiful city title it must lift its game in dealing with waste.
Councillor Helen Craig was shocked and outraged to see renovation waste dumped down a gully on a College Estate section. It was "visual pollution" for the neighbours, and completely unacceptable, she said.
She's not naming the owners, but encouraging them to recover all the rubbish.
"New Zealand is long past the point where we accept that people can dump anything on their properties and that's okay."
Craig attended the Keep New Zealand Beautiful Awards in Auckland last month. This year Dunedin was the most beautiful city, and Taupo and Raglan won the large and small town categories.