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

[tall_bearded01]

Not all councils accept e-waste without a fee but most do.  So if yours doesn't google google e-waste recycling to find where you can.

[***super_nova***]

Here it is actually against law to take anything from the nature strip.  I put my stuff in my front yard with a large sign inviting people to take what they want and only drag what is left out the night before the collection date.

My daughter recently cleaned out my garage and put all my hoarded bits and pieces in the driveway, 1st we got a $800 quote for dump bin, then she took pictures and advertised it all on some facebook page, and the whole lot got taken away over couple of weeks.  There will not be much for our annual collection this year 🙂

[tall_bearded01]

How do you know it goes directly to landfill?

In fact the only way this can happen is if it's pre-sorted at the point of pick-up, that is loaded on different trucks, with some going directly to landfill and the rest to a reclamation centre, or the pickup excludes all prohibited product.

That is no paint tins (unless empty), no containers containing, or which have ever contained certain chemicals, no e-waste, no mattresses, no refrigerators, no tyres to name but a few, because none of these items can be consigned to landfill, and any council caught doing, so will face some very hefty fines.

[mugssy65]

You have just listed all our rules for hard waste collection! Except the white goods bit, they are collected separately.

[purple_haize]

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@tall_bearded01 wrote:

How do you know it goes directly to landfill?

In fact the only way this can happen is if it's pre-sorted at the point of pick-up, that is loaded on different trucks, with some going directly to landfill and the rest to a reclamation centre, or the pickup excludes all prohibited product.

That is no paint tins (unless empty), no containers containing, or which have ever contained certain chemicals, no e-waste, no mattresses, no refrigerators, no tyres to name but a few, because none of these items can be consigned to landfill, and any council caught doing, so will face some very hefty fines.

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Because I personally know a person that works at the council and I also personally know one of the councillors.........plus it was in the shire news.

[lloydslights]

It cost me $130 on Sunday to drop off some old copper-treated decking at the local recycling tip 

Wonder what they did with it.

DEB

[purple_haize]

The council takes fridges as well and they are compacted in the rubbish truck, they wont take empty paint tins..................

You may know what goes on in your council, but you have no idea, what goes on in the council that I come under.

[tall_bearded01]

Sold it for about the same amount

[tall_bearded01]

Can you provide the name of the council please, so I canreport it to the EPA.

[tall_bearded01]

Most refrigerants, be it in a fridge or air conditioner is a prescribed substance, which must be removed by a licenced person before they fridge is placed into landfill.

The same goes for e-waste.  Computer and TV picture tubes contains some very nasty stuff, which means they cannot be put into landfill.

Now if you’re saying your council is dumping them illegally this needs to be reported.

But then, this is one council I’m glad I don’t belong to as they are obviously in the habit of wasting money.  The last van load of scrap I took in for recycling put nearly $600 in my pocket.