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

[imastawka]

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@purple_haize wrote:

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@imastawka wrote:

This is what you shoud do with your old fridges in Melbourne.

Brotherhood of St Lawrence

They also took my old washer and dryer

 http://phoenixfridges.org.au/

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No charity shops around me, take fridges or washing machines, and in some cases they dont take lounges

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  You don't have to take them.     They come and pick them up

[mugssy65]

The biggest council in Australia is acctually East Pilbarra at 380000 km2 they don't have hard waste pickups though, funnily enough the smallest one is Peppermint Grove also in WA it's one of our states most prestigious shires, I bet they have hard waste collection! Lol
I realise you were possibly talking population wise and I was really just being a smarta$$.

[cherry*135]

Purple: No charity shops around me, take fridges or washing machines, and in some cases they dont take lounges

Stawka: You don't have to take them. They come and pick them up

Some charities shops do not accept electrical goods. They have to have by law an electrician to inspect and tag every item before it can be put in the shop for sale.

Some Salvo stores around where I live are the only ones that have an 'in house' electrician and do accept/sell electrical goods.

Charities will also reject large items if furniture for pick up, if they already have a quite a few of the same item and they are slow movers.

[imastawka]

Obviously no one reads links.  I'm not talking charity shops.

This lot -  http://phoenixfridges.org.au/                    Melbourne only

Repairs and on-sells all whitegoods to raise money for their charity

from that link :

When your fridge arrives at our workshop it will be checked to see whether it is able to be repaired using alternate parts to help it run more efficiently.

From here there are three recycling options for the fridges:

Option 1: The fridge is repaired using alternate parts and is sold through our Brotherhood of St Laurence Community Stores at an affordable price.

Option 2: The fridge is unable to be repaired and is recycled as scrap metal, or

Option 3: The Phoenix team removes harmful CFC gases. For this they may receive Government Initiatives called Victorian Energy Efficient Certificates (VEECs).

Makes more sense than dumping them

[cherry*135]

IF you live in Melbourne......

In the past when buying a new fridge/washer to replace an old dead one, the retailer who I bought the new one from takes the old one away.
Last time for the old wash machine to be taken away I paid $10, taken by the delivery guys who brought the new one.
I asked where they end up and they said second hand dealers get them for parts etc.

[i-need-a-martini]

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@mugssy65 wrote:
The biggest council in Australia is acctually East Pilbarra at 380000 km2 they don't have hard waste pickups though, funnily enough the smallest one is Peppermint Grove also in WA it's one of our states most prestigious shires, I bet they have hard waste collection! Lol
I realise you were possibly talking population wise and I was really just being a smarta$$.

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Actually I was wrong anyway. Brisbane City Council is the biggest.

By population.

[purple_haize]

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@am*3 wrote:
IF you live in Melbourne......

In the past when buying a new fridge/washer to replace an old dead one, the retailer who I bought the new one from takes the old one away.
Last time for the old wash machine to be taken away I paid $10, taken by the delivery guys who brought the new one.
I asked where they end up and they said second hand dealers get them for parts etc.

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Yes, that is correct AM, the delivery guys take them, to second hand dealers for parts, then they sell them as second hand.

And as far as charities go, some of them are now quite picky in what they will and wont take.

[tall_bearded01]

Sorry, but if you paid someone $10 to get it taken away you were scun.  Scun because, they would have taken it to their nearest scrap merchant who given them 11 per kilo for it. For further reference, (excepting for fridges)  if you want to get rid of any white goods take them to your local scout recycle centre.  They will pay you for it not the other way round.

If you don’t want to be bothered with doing it yourself, check your local community directory.  You will more likely than not find a local rubbish collection company who will pick it up for nothing (including fridges) the next time they are in your area.  If there are none in your area put it next to the gate with a sign – if you want it take it.  It will be gone quick smart.

When my daughter bought her last car, she simply drove her old bomb to the scrap merchant, had it weighed, took the rego papers to the office and got a hundred more for it than she was offered as a trade in.

A couple of years ago I had a new roof put on our then house. The contractor quoted $200 to remove the old iron.  I loaded it on a trailer, 3 X 10 km round trips later I had $300 in pocket, or I could have called the local block clearing business who would have removed it for nothing.

Like I said their money in rubbish

[tall_bearded01]

When it comes furnishings and bric-a-brac yes.  When it comes to fridges which need to be degassed, yes.  Anything which has scrap value, please leave it there.

[cherry*135]

Tall bearded wrote:
Sorry, but if you paid someone $10 to get it taken away you were scun. Scun because, they would have taken it to their nearest scrap merchant who given them 11 per kilo for it. For further reference, (excepting for fridges) if you want to get rid of any white goods take them to your local scout recycle centre. They will pay you for it not the other way round."

I was quite happy to pay $10, you should respect that. It was my choice. Not everyone has a ute or trailer. It costs a lot more than $10 to hire a trailer.

Not everyone has room to store an old LARGE appliance waiting to dispose of them, nor the time to be driving around & coordinating times to drop them off at other organisations.

Our local town council only has a recycling depot. For hard rubbish we go to the nearby city dump.

Our local council has twice yearly hard big rubbish pick up, e -waste, chemical drop points on advt dates etc. I recycle & make use of all these services. Tyres can be taken to a service station.

I have only taken a small amount of hard rubbish in the car to the dump once in the 13 years I have lived here. Needed for it to go before moving house.

Is SCUN even a word ????