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

[icyfroth]

Well there ya go. You learn something new every day right here on CS.

No wonder I'm OCD about coming here.

[punch*drunk]

TB, are you in SA? I googled scout recycling centre because I'd never heard of them and all the results were in South Australia, I dont think other states have them. Its a pity, I would have donated future scrap metal to them.

[lurker172602]

Ok, the truck has just been by and all the junk is gone. You can all stop worrying about it now 🙂

[punch*drunk]

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@lurker172602 wrote:
Ok, the truck has just been by and all the junk is gone. You can all stop worrying about it now 🙂

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Did they squish it all together? lol

[***super_nova***]

There i a large metal recycling place near here, and they are happy for you to come and dump metal in their bins for free, they will pay for copper in small amounts, but do not want a car unless the tyres and upholstered bits are taken out, and do not pay for any small amounts of other stuff. 

[tall_bearded01]

Yes I'm in SA, the pace where you wont find a beer or soft drik bottle on the side of the road because they are worth 10 cent here.

[lane-ends]

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@tall_bearded01 wrote:

As for the word scun, as Imastawka has already explained it it an old Australian word used to indicate a bad outcome.  For instance, “instead of saying I went to the TAB and lost my shirt”, you say. “I went to the TAB and got scun”.

Growing up in UK "Scun" was a common word for skin graze. " I fell over and scun my knee'..Haven't heard it used in Aus

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[nicnacs_4u]

Driving around the other day I "came" across a large pile of artifical flowers,roses etc(not plastic ones)on someone`s naturestrip..looked around and noticed no-one looking so in my car they went...took them to the market yesterday and got myself $20 for the effort..cheeky you betcha!!

[lane-ends]

It seems to be routine now in our area that when people dont want stuff they put them on them on nature strip, not for hard waste just in the knowledge that someone will take it. So you have to be extra careful leaving anything accidently unattended out the front.

Our waste collection is bookable twice a year, but its pretty useless they only take a cubic metere  (one big armchair) and will leave the rest there. At the last place you used to able to fill the nature strip. This is why local op shops and nature reserves have huge rubbish dumping problems.

I just cut and break up most stuff and drip feed it through the regular household waste. Luckily we also have a scrap metal joint close by

The tipping costs are horrendus.

[purple_haize]

Where I live, people will put items out the front anytime with a sign that says *free*, the item is gone within a couple of days.