TAMS are letting us know they’ve hired a helicopter to pull the dumped cars out of the Cotter River:
Nine abandoned vehicles will be removed from the Cotter River in the vicinity of Vanity’s Crossing today, Wednesday 17 April 2013, in an effort clean up the site and protect the ACT’s water supply, Brett McNamara, Operations [...]

So this is what Dickson looks like this boxing day morning.
Congratulations to every lazy dirty bogan who was so keen to “give to charity” they couldn’t be arsed doing their illegal dumping at the tip.
You walk amongst us and for reasons passing understanding we’re not allowed to brand your foreheads for easy identification.

This in from Golden-Alpine:
This picture was taken at the charity bins at Gungahlin today, Saturday 16/9/12 at 12:10pm.
Join the dots…
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Thanks to P1 for sending in the pic with this note:
You can dump’em for free, but there is still a broken telly by the charity bins in Kippax tonight.
Flat panel too.
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Territory and Municipal Services are warning that they’re going to have to close Townsend Place in Belconnen at night to try and ward off the disgusting illegal dumpers.
The ACT Government wishes to advise that Townsend Place at the intersection with Aikman Drive in Belconnen will be closed between sunset and sunrise from Monday 7 May [...]

Territory and Municipal Services are celebrating the catching of three more miscreants dumping around Gungahlin’s charity bins:
City Rangers issued another three on-the-spot fines to people for illegally dumping rubbish around charity bins in Gungahlin on the weekend.
The blitz took place following two others that have taken place earlier this month which have fined a [...]

Chief Minister Gallagher has annnounced her government is running up the white flag against charity bin dumpers and making strategic withdrawal:
“Since the last roundtable in January consultation has taken place with charity groups. Today’s roundtable agreed that a pilot program will be undertaken.
“This will be used to evaluate the effectiveness of the options to address [...]

I just reported the issue with dumping rubbish on the footpath in the street that runs along the back of the Watson shops for the 3rd time. First time I sent a report through the Fix My Street service was early July last year. Then sent a follow up with these pictures at the end [...]

Curious happenings at Westfield Woden. As I parked, some bogans (2 mothers with kids and some rough looking bloke) returned to their 4WD with a pair of prams, swearing at one another about some disagreement. When I returned, they were gone but one of the prams remained. Did they forget? Or was it broken and [...]

RB78 has brought the happy news that Gungahlin is not being left behind by West Belconnen in the race to establish free tv dumping grounds.
Hi Guys,
Looks like Gungahlin has a newer TV dump than West Belconnen – saw this on Amy Ackman Street in Forde today. (reminded me of this thread)
Got an image [...]

A problem known for years gets some media traction in the silly season and Chief Minister Gallagher is all over it like a rash:
ACT Chief Minister and Minister for Territory and Municipal Services, Katy Gallagher will convene a roundtable next Wednesday to try to find a solution to illegal dumping at charity bins, and [...]

The Mully Cup very nearly went to Cat Throwing Teenagers. But in the end the cup has been awarded to Sylvia from this is not charity.
Proving that the silly season is an excellent time to kick off a media campaign as bored hacks will jump at anything she kicked things off with an incendiary post [...]

Canberra Trolley Dumpers have found life boring since the new laws, and so have moved on to burning and dumping motor bikes.
If any Rioters are missing their Yamaha road bike, it could be this under David St in Turner.
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On the afternoon of Tuesday, 28 December 2011, I went to the Southlands (Mawson) charity bins to donate some clothes to charity by placing them in the bins. Found a disgraceful mess. Ended up taking clothes home. Had camera with me, and decided to take some pics. Decided to visit other [...]

Spotted along the storm water drain as I ride to work – three abandoned shopping trolleys from one of the two major grocery stores. These three happen to be from the red, white and green store.
If you shop at either the red, white and green store, or the red and white store, you are [...]

We have come home yesterday afternoon to a load of ground up concrete (called road bases I think?) on our driveway.
Haven’t bought a load of road base, do not need a load of road base so we are not sure what do do next.
We live in the Evatt area.
Anyone expecting a delivery that didn’t make [...]

Stuart has sent this gem in with this note:
The charity bins at Kippax are treated as nothing more than a cheaper version of the tip by many people. So here’s the Government’s reaction to the problem. Good to see it’s proving so effective…
(it’s nice to see that someone’s thoughtfully made sure to include [...]

Simon Corbell has announced that dumped asbestos has been found at Lyneham’s Southwell Park playing fields.
Mr Corbell said work on the upgrade of the Lyneham Sports Fields at Southwell Park had been stopped immediately after asbestos, which had until recently been buried, was discovered on the site.
Initial investigations identified asbestos irrigation pipes which had been [...]

ACT Policing’s Rural Patrol is investigating several instances of dumped cannabis in rural areas of the ACT this month.
Around 10.45am today (Wednesday, September 14), Rural Patrol attended a road in the rural area of Holt after ACT Rangers found approximately 50 kilograms of cannabis dumped on the side of the road.
The cannabis consisted of clippings [...]

These are from a block on Eucumbene Drive Duffy. I’ve seen men in white hazmat suits taking stuff away.
I like the couch in the sewage pipe hole that was 10ft deep.
It used to be a cool place to have a fire and a few beers at night with mates.
I don’t think my [...]

Pantsman has sent in this sign offering very affordable garbage disposal for a big load with the following note:
This sign appears to have fallen through all three levels of government. Don’t know if it a Stanhope, NCA, or Commonwealth ‘s fault. We’ll need an inquiry / taskforce to get this sorted.
Got an image [...]

Fgzk has sent in this pic of an unusual approach to safe disposal in Lake Burley Griffin.
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It’s been nearly a month since the new shopping trolley laws came into effect.
And so I wandered down to the taxi rank at the corner of Bunda and Mort streets where trolleys are frequently dumped to see how it’s going.
The answer is there are actually more abandoned trolleys than before the laws came into effect. [...]

Does anyone know who is responsible for cleaning up vacant crown land in the ACT?
In our Belconnen townhouse development we have at least two parcels of vacant crown land which have block and section numbers but no issued title.
One is a carpark, the other is a laneway.
Neither are cared for and have become [...]

Br1anL has this morning noticed someone’s done a very serious clean out of their shoe rack in Dickson.
Did anyone know Imelda Marcos had moved to Canberra?
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Chief Minister Stanhope has announced more cameras to watch for illegal dumping at recycling centres:
The ACT Government has installed two more closed circuit television cameras (CCTV) at existing 24-hour recycling centres in an effort to curb illegal dumping and the associated clean-up costs, Chief Minister and Minister for Territory and Municipal Services Jon Stanhope, [...]

Sometimes I really despair of humanity.
The RSPCA has put out a media release asking the scum of the earth to not dump their pets instead of kennelling them.
“Each year many people don’t plan for boarding kennels over the Christmas holidays and so they abandon their pets to us, and then get another dog the following [...]

Chief Minister Stanhope is unwittingly identifying another abject policy failure. This time announcing “Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras at 24-hour recycling centres in an effort to curb illegal dumping and the associated clean-up costs”.
The ACT Government manages six drop-off recycling centres which collectively accept over 3700 tonnes of recyclables each year.
However some Canberrans are [...]

We get told off time and time again for illegal littering, etc. Well it would appear if those we hire out to take our rubbish are dumping rubbish another way.
The below photo was taken from the carpark on Lady Denman Drive near the Glenloch Interchange.
This truck was there for a while, but nothing around it [...]

Whilst walking the dogs this morning I came across this pleasant sight. Think about this. Someone had to lad this into a vehicle capable of carrying it, drive it to this spot, (probably in the dark) dump it, and either smash it up there, or leave it for other mouth breathers to smash up. [...]

I noticed today that the illegal asbestos dump in Bruce (see this earlier RiotACT coverage) has now been cleaned up, with the site scraped completely clean.
I guess, sometimes, the system really does work.