Fortnightly (weekly?) Recycling

Yet another thing Queanbeyan does better than Canberra… a bloody sad state of affairs.

Apparently there was an organic waste (garden clippings, kitchen scraps etc) collection trial in Chifley a few years ago, but it was a failure. We get to keep the bin with the red lid though, was handy for storing horse feed.

id love greenwaste removal.

except that my new mower has a small branch mulcher built into it…

fed half a hedge through it last sunday.

Step up to Queanbeyan, people. We get large recyc bins emptied every fortnight, large green waste emptied every fortnight, and periodic large rubbish removal.

Why don’t they change to emptying the recycle bins once a week and the “other” rubbish bins fortnightly? That or do both fortnightly….

“tenanments” – um, ‘tenets’, s4anta?

but yes, the concept is to engender behavioural changes. actually consume less. i find (in a house with my partner and me) i fill the little bin mebbe once in three weeks and put the recycling one out two out of three times or less. i have a worm farm and i compost but i also try not to get so much rubbish in my packaging.

i agree about the hard rubbish collection – the community recycling ‘on the front lawn – come and get it’ idea a few weeks ago should be encouraged…

just to to kirks comment. The three main tenanments of the philosophy (and part of the jingle) is reduce, reuse and recycle. Start reusing more bits (paper for wormfarms, jars for storage, etc) and your laughing really.

It’s a bit of an expense to pay an extra truck to go around and empty recycling twice when not everyone needs it.

There is the ability to get another bin added to your rates fee. This is like getting then bin emptied each week 🙂

AFAIR it costs around $45 extra a year.
“Do not overfill bins, if you require extra bins
contact Canberra Connect on 13 22 81.”

Many of the topics are regularly recycled.

I hope the riot act is using fully recyclable web pages.

Bonfire, that’s a load of S&!T