Some Aussies just don't want to recycle.

[go-tazz]

Guess who seems to be the main problem:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-09/indonesia-to-ship-back-contaminated-australian-waste/11292540

Had it happen at a previous town I lived in where the younger generation just didn't care about recycling (they

received notices to get it right and then had the bin taken away for a 3 month period and after it was returned

they still chucked rubbish in it).

They even had someone from the council go to the schools to try and get it correct.

The council now sends it's recyclables over a 100 kms away as it's to costly to do it themselves now.

Their recycle place had to keep chucking full loads into landfill as it was all contaminated with nappies and other

garbage such as takeaway food scraps in their containers,car parts and even TV's and computer stuff,etc.

So they had workers standing around with nothing to do.

It's still happening now and when you talk to some of them they can't even phantom that only specific things

can be recycled and the rest is just garbage (their main excuse for the nappies was always the bin was full so

had nowhere else to put it).

The bins were generally full as they were half filled with recyclables and the recycle bin wasn't even half full.

We used to have recycle bins and skips  here but they all got removed because of some of the similar reasons

but the culprits are the older generation (one of them chucked 2 garbage bags full of grass into one of the

skips and a number of TV's ended up in them as well).

[not_for_sale2025]

It obviously wasn't checked very well before it was shipped from Australia. That's disappointing.

[davidc4430]

unfortunatly relying on the guy in the street to know how to recycle properly is setting yourself up for failure

as we have discussed before, when you dig into the what can and what cant be recycled in your new recycle bin there are loads os stuff that you cannot recycle that on first glance you would thing could be recycled.

lids off bottles?

styrene foam?

ect ect

i'm not excusing other obviously non recyclables but your dealing with drongos here.

my normal bins full so i'll put it in the yellow bin. a bins a bin right?

[not_for_sale2025]

I agree with you David. I recently contacted my Council because I heard a rumour that we can't 

recycle glass bottles, containers etc., which I have been recycling for years. They confirmed it 

is correct, but only because the Council changed their contractor who will not accept glass, as 

the previous contractor did. It's hard to keep up. But used nappies is a bit rude!

[halfgweilo]

It isn't a matter of the culprits being the younger or older generations who doesn't want to recycle. I wonder which suburb/s your are referring to and it's populace. Some people do bring their bad habits with them. According to a recent 'A Current Affair' type show on TV since China stopped taking our recyclables, it all goes to land fill anyway. There are tons and tons of same, to the dismay of their government and citizens, that were dumped by us onto some Asian countries and are wating to be shipped back to us. You seemed to emphasized mainly on  'nappies' so your area must have a pretty high birth rate. Anyway ....

[martinw-48]

My friend is sixty and throws stuff in the recycling bin that shouldn't go into it.
It's laziness.
I heard a bloke I didn't know bragging about putting used nappies in the recycling bin as a big joke on the people that work there.
That's craziness.
People do different things due to different reasons.
Just shows that often the apparently smartest species on the planet can be pretty stupid

[go-tazz]

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@not_for_sale2025 wrote:

It obviously wasn't checked very well before it was shipped from Australia. That's disappointing.

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Those items would've been wrapped in newspaper and the people at collection depots don't have time to

unwrap those papers as they work on a line where the stuff comes along on belts and such  (it's not their job to

correct the stupidity of the people as it shiould not have being there in the first place).

[domino-710]

Sorry - trying to keep up here.

What items - wrapped in newspaper - go into - recycling.

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@go-tazz wrote:

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@not_for_sale2025 wrote:

It obviously wasn't checked very well before it was shipped from Australia. That's disappointing.

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Those items would've been wrapped in newspaper and the people at collection depots don't have time to

unwrap those papers as they work on a line where the stuff comes along on belts and such  (it's not their job to

correct the stupidity of the people as it shiould not have being there in the first place).

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[go-tazz]

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@halfgweilo wrote:

It isn't a matter of the culprits being the younger or older generations who doesn't want to recycle. I wonder which suburb/s your are referring to and it's populace. Some people do bring their bad habits with them. According to a recent 'A Current Affair' type show on TV since China stopped taking our recyclables, it all goes to land fill anyway. There are tons and tons of same, to the dismay of their government and citizens, that were dumped by us onto some Asian countries and are wating to be shipped back to us. You seemed to emphasized mainly on  'nappies' so your area must have a pretty high birth rate. Anyway ....

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It is a matter of who wont recycle as one of those groups blames everyone else and yet refuse to comply

themselves.

Country town of 9000 plus people and another with 4000 plus and 98% plus at least Aussies in both.

Nappies was to highlight how many younger people didn't have a clue (age range up to around 35 but most

culprits were in the below 25 range).

The same age groups that blame the rest for not recycling but don't have a clue themselves.

I used do paper deliveries and always went past a few bins that had been knocked over each week and knew a

lot of the people that those bins belonged too (they seemed to target different bins each week).

[go-tazz]

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@domino-710 wrote:

Sorry - trying to keep up here.

What items - wrapped in newspaper - go into - recycling.

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@go-tazz wrote:

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@not_for_sale2025 wrote:

It obviously wasn't checked very well before it was shipped from Australia. That's disappointing.

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Those items would've been wrapped in newspaper and the people at collection depots don't have time to

unwrap those papers as they work on a line where the stuff comes along on belts and such  (it's not their job to

correct the stupidity of the people as it shiould not have being there in the first place).

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The stuff that was in the link eg: nappies and plastic bottles.

Broken glass and crockery,light bulbs and other sharp items are supposed to go in the rubbish bin but I came

across numerous downed bins that had these in the recycling bins wrapped in newspaper (some were taped up

in an attempt to keep it in place).