Council Cleanup/Hardwaste Collections

[lurker172602]

My OH loves 'em.
He piles all our junk on the nature strip and then takes a somewhat unhealthy interest in people stopping and looking over what's there. I tell him, if it goes, it goes. I don't care who takes it, scavangers or council workers.

I think it's his favourite time of year LOL

[lis351]

Sorry Tall, but that's certainly not the case round here, all goes into a big truck with a hydraulic 'squasher' and when it's 1/3 the way full, they squash it to make room for more. We pay for it under waste management in our annual council rates.

[k0llectable5]

Ah thought so, just hadn't really heard it referred to as e-waste.  We have an awesome flat screen telly that came from the tip.  It works perfectly...

The transfer stations around here will accept whitegoods, scrap metal, TV's ect and recycling.  The only things you really have to pay for is general household rubbish.  We have 2 hard waste collections per year (That you have to book in advance and pay $20) I was so annoyed last year when I put out a perfectly good telly with a sticker on it that said "works well" yet someone still came along and smashed a big hole in the top to remove the copper (or something??) out of it.  

In saying that though I am dark on the law that calls taking kerbside rubbish "stealing"  especially when we have to pay to have them come around and collect it.  I like the thought of people making use my unwanted goods, especially when they are still in usable condition.  

[punch*drunk]

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@tall_bearded01 wrote:

I know you don’t understand because my post is written in anticipation that the reader has a fundamental understanding as to the laws pertaining to waste manangement.

For instance you may want read the relevant legistation before making statements such “The contractor throws it all in a compactus indiscriminantly regardless of the value or the condition of the item. It then gets dumped and becomes landfill”.

That is, does your all include things include e-waste etc, which it is illegal to consign to landfill. 

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I did actually say "a few items dont get that treatment"  generally they are mattresses and scrap metal. I have wached them put computers, monitors etc into the compactor so unless they are squishing them together and then seperating them later on (I doubt it) then, yes most things are squished together and sent to landfill.

[purple_haize]

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@tall_bearded01 wrote:

Yes.  At one point you had to take it a collection centre and pay to have it taken of your hands.  Today you can take it to a collection centre where they will take off you hands for free

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That is not the case with the council that I come under, once the item is picked up, it goes into the rubbish truck and IMMEDIATELY is SQUASHED or broken up............I have stood at my gate and watched them, then it goes to landfill.

[lis351]

 I have wached them put computers, monitors etc into the

LOL, not here, they spray paint a big number on it and leave it on your front yard. We get 2 free passes to take that kind of item to the tip with our rates. I know this, because the lady over the road put her old cra ppy broken TV on the verge. When they didnt collect it, she brought it across the road and put it on my verge (littering $200 fine). Of course, they didnt collect it from there either, so they put a notice in her letterbox that they were going to fine her for not removing the TV. So she came over and put that in my letterbox too! Eventually, the rubbish people came to collect it, and she was fined.

[tall_bearded01]

Sorry that post was direced to a comment made by Martini

[tall_bearded01]

Just because they compact it doesn’t mean they dump it.  Yes may get compacted.  But that doesnt mean it goes directly to landfill.  Instead it's dumped on a convayer where it is sorted (metal, wood glass etc). with only a faction going to landfill

Why?

The next time you need to get rid of some old white goods (not fridge) instead of taking it to your local council Waste Depository Centre where you can dump it for free, dismantle it and take it a scrap metal merchant.  Motors 50 cents per kilo, copper wire $2.00+ a kilo, the rest place on bailing steel pile and get 11 cents a kilo.

That is yes it may get compacted.  But that doesnt mean it goes directly to landfill.  Instead its dumped on a convayer where it is sorted (metal, wood glass etc). with only a factionconsined to landfill.

[icyfroth]

We have a council wast pickup fortnightly. Mosman council are very good that way.

I too see the truck pick up the stuff and throw it into the compacter. I don't think they discriminate.

If people put any salvageable stuff out and it happens to rain, it's all ruined.

The trucks don't care they just pick it up and throw it in the back of the truck.

[lurker172602]

You don't live in a small town do you?
There are no fancy conveyors at our local tip I can assure you lol. Out the back of the truck into the land fill - job done!

[purple_haize]

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@tall_bearded01 wrote:

Just because they compact it doesn’t mean they dump it.  Yes may get compacted.  But that doesnt mean it goes directly to landfill.  Instead it's dumped on a convayer where it is sorted (metal, wood glass etc). with only a faction going to landfill

Why?

The next time you need to get rid of some old white goods (not fridge) instead of taking it to your local council Waste Depository Centre where you can dump it for free, dismantle it and take it a scrap metal merchant.  Motors 50 cents per kilo, copper wire $2.00+ a kilo, the rest place on bailing steel pile and get 11 cents a kilo.

That is yes it may get compacted.  But that doesnt mean it goes directly to landfill.  Instead its dumped on a convayer where it is sorted (metal, wood glass etc). with only a factionconsined to landfill.

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I know for a fact that it goes into landfill..........it is obvious, that you are not in the council that I come under!!