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

[cherry*135]

They may be money in rubbish, that doesn't mean you have to criticise those people who are happy for others to put out their rubbish for others to take and make money from it,.

Most people who work full time, don't spend their spare time collecting rubbish to sell as scrap.

Elderly people aren't going to be lifting their old fridge onto a hired trailer to take it to the Scouts Den, if they can pay someone $10 to take it away when their new one arrives.

If you live in a small town options are limited for recycling or reselling scrap.

[punch*drunk]

Our closest scrap metal recyclers wont pay you for anything less than a ton of general scrap. Our last lot of scrap metal filled our nature strip and would have been about 6 trips (at least 2 hours at a time) to get it all there. It simply isnt worth our time. Someone did take it all in 2 very overloaded trips and good luck to them for putting a few extra dollars in their pocket.

[tall_bearded01]

I guess different points of view.

I see that I have what I have, at least in part, is because I’m frugal.  It take my empty drink bottles of the local scout centre because (here) they’re worth 10 cents each to me.  I breakdown all my whitegoods and sell them as scrap because it is money in my pocket no somebody else’s.  All food scraps and garden waist is composed etc.

Now if you find this sort of thing inconvenient, and you are prepared to pay to have it done for you then well and good.

The pain killers are wearing off.  It's time to lay down. Nuff said

[cherry*135]

I wouldn't call it inconvenient. I would call it personal choice. Also as mentioned before, not everyone has a ute or trailer. 

Which is why hard rubbish, large item, pick up day is so popular for the people who have stuff they no longer want. 

[i-need-a-martini]

$10 was cheap am. I'd want top give them more for the trouble and the trip lol.

[monman12]

"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"

$11 per kilo ?  Sorry TB but I find that very hard to believe. Here is a current list of metals, and the prices for them at a scrap metal dealer in Melbourne.

Prices are the range  from low to high/per Kg

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[punch*drunk]

  $11 a kilo for scrap? I must have missed that. We got about $6 a kilo for clean copper a couple of months ago, but its been as low as $3 and never more than $7. If you can get $11 a kilo its probably worth the drive, General scrap metal around here is about $130 a ton, and they wont pay you at all if you bring in less than a ton.

[icyfroth]

erm...what's Scun mean ?

[imastawka]

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@icyfroth wrote:

erm...what's Scun mean ?

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 I'm thinking past tense of skin (as in skinned)

[tall_bearded01]

Sorry my bad. Forgot to qualify the 11 per kilo in the supposedly offending post.  But by that time of day the pain killers were starting to wear off and…

But then in a post a few places back didn’t I say “the rest is place on bailing steel pile and get 11 cents a kilo”, and does that that not fall within the mid-range of the prices you quoted.

As for quantities – though some larger scrap merchants are only interested in commercial quantities, most smaller community based recycles centres run by organisations such as the Scouts will take any quantity but at a slightly reduced price (about 10 cents a kilo)

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”.