Missed bin collections

wottaway said :

drfelonious said :

devils_advocate said :

creative_canberran said :

Mordd said :

I think the recycling bins should be collected every week along with the “rubbish” bin.

I generally put both bins out on recycling day, neither are full but I know people who have their recycling bin over-flowing by bin day.

Whatever happened to the “green waste” bins they were going to bring in?

Every excuse the ACT Govt makes in response to the green waste bin question is incomprehensible to me.

It’s not that complicated. Canberra does really well in terms of green waste not going to landfill because we have an established culture of self-haul. Whether it’s trailers, ute-loads, bags or via trash packs, green waste currently goes into recycling with little to no expenditure by government. To provide a kerb side green waste collection, the ACT Government would have to take on a significant new cost (either copping it or passing it on in rates & charges) that would not necessarily generate much benefit in either economic or environmental terms.

I support the introduction of a combined green waste / food waste collection bin at kerbside in Canberra, but concede funding this would be a challenge. It’s hard to make the numbers stack up. A food/green waste integrated collection might mean you could switch the landfill bin to a fortnightly collection schedule, delivering some savings, but there would be howls of ‘they-took-our-bins’ protest to manage if the government went down that path.

Everyone driving their own little quantities of green waste to the tip seems a pretty unsustainable approach. Seriously, every other jurisdiction I visit, whether it be Queanbeyan, on the South Coast, in Melbourne or in Sydney, has a green waste collection. Is Canberra really that different?

Yes, it is. Nowhere else has such a good rate of landfill diversion of green waste without a green waste collection service. It’s a challenge to make the case for spending new public money to provide a service for a problem that is currently managed by households themselves without cost to the government.

I agree there should be a green waste bin (though my trash pack provider would not), but the challenge is how to pay for it.

The part about zero cost to the government isn’t really looking at the big picture though. The government is merely a centralised convenient way for all of us to pay for things. It’s the cost to the community in total that actually matters. If it’s more expensive for everyone to get a trailer and take it to the tip or get trash packs, compared to a universal service with economies of scale, then it’s actually costing us more that way.

I’m not saying that’s definitely the case here, but that’s the way we should think about these sorts of services.

It is a political problem for the politicians to try to pay for things….but that’s really their personal problem, not the community’s.

drfelonious said :

devils_advocate said :

creative_canberran said :

Mordd said :

I think the recycling bins should be collected every week along with the “rubbish” bin.

I generally put both bins out on recycling day, neither are full but I know people who have their recycling bin over-flowing by bin day.

Whatever happened to the “green waste” bins they were going to bring in?

Every excuse the ACT Govt makes in response to the green waste bin question is incomprehensible to me.

It’s not that complicated. Canberra does really well in terms of green waste not going to landfill because we have an established culture of self-haul. Whether it’s trailers, ute-loads, bags or via trash packs, green waste currently goes into recycling with little to no expenditure by government. To provide a kerb side green waste collection, the ACT Government would have to take on a significant new cost (either copping it or passing it on in rates & charges) that would not necessarily generate much benefit in either economic or environmental terms.

I support the introduction of a combined green waste / food waste collection bin at kerbside in Canberra, but concede funding this would be a challenge. It’s hard to make the numbers stack up. A food/green waste integrated collection might mean you could switch the landfill bin to a fortnightly collection schedule, delivering some savings, but there would be howls of ‘they-took-our-bins’ protest to manage if the government went down that path.

Everyone driving their own little quantities of green waste to the tip seems a pretty unsustainable approach. Seriously, every other jurisdiction I visit, whether it be Queanbeyan, on the South Coast, in Melbourne or in Sydney, has a green waste collection. Is Canberra really that different?

Do you know where QCC delivers and processes the green waste that is collected?

drfelonious said :

devils_advocate said :

creative_canberran said :

Mordd said :

I think the recycling bins should be collected every week along with the “rubbish” bin.

I generally put both bins out on recycling day, neither are full but I know people who have their recycling bin over-flowing by bin day.

Whatever happened to the “green waste” bins they were going to bring in?

Every excuse the ACT Govt makes in response to the green waste bin question is incomprehensible to me.

It’s not that complicated. Canberra does really well in terms of green waste not going to landfill because we have an established culture of self-haul. Whether it’s trailers, ute-loads, bags or via trash packs, green waste currently goes into recycling with little to no expenditure by government. To provide a kerb side green waste collection, the ACT Government would have to take on a significant new cost (either copping it or passing it on in rates & charges) that would not necessarily generate much benefit in either economic or environmental terms.

I support the introduction of a combined green waste / food waste collection bin at kerbside in Canberra, but concede funding this would be a challenge. It’s hard to make the numbers stack up. A food/green waste integrated collection might mean you could switch the landfill bin to a fortnightly collection schedule, delivering some savings, but there would be howls of ‘they-took-our-bins’ protest to manage if the government went down that path.

Everyone driving their own little quantities of green waste to the tip seems a pretty unsustainable approach. Seriously, every other jurisdiction I visit, whether it be Queanbeyan, on the South Coast, in Melbourne or in Sydney, has a green waste collection. Is Canberra really that different?

Yes, it is. Nowhere else has such a good rate of landfill diversion of green waste without a green waste collection service. It’s a challenge to make the case for spending new public money to provide a service for a problem that is currently managed by households themselves without cost to the government.

I agree there should be a green waste bin (though my trash pack provider would not), but the challenge is how to pay for it.

devils_advocate said :

creative_canberran said :

Mordd said :

I think the recycling bins should be collected every week along with the “rubbish” bin.

I generally put both bins out on recycling day, neither are full but I know people who have their recycling bin over-flowing by bin day.

Whatever happened to the “green waste” bins they were going to bring in?

Every excuse the ACT Govt makes in response to the green waste bin question is incomprehensible to me.

It’s not that complicated. Canberra does really well in terms of green waste not going to landfill because we have an established culture of self-haul. Whether it’s trailers, ute-loads, bags or via trash packs, green waste currently goes into recycling with little to no expenditure by government. To provide a kerb side green waste collection, the ACT Government would have to take on a significant new cost (either copping it or passing it on in rates & charges) that would not necessarily generate much benefit in either economic or environmental terms.

I support the introduction of a combined green waste / food waste collection bin at kerbside in Canberra, but concede funding this would be a challenge. It’s hard to make the numbers stack up. A food/green waste integrated collection might mean you could switch the landfill bin to a fortnightly collection schedule, delivering some savings, but there would be howls of ‘they-took-our-bins’ protest to manage if the government went down that path.

Everyone driving their own little quantities of green waste to the tip seems a pretty unsustainable approach. Seriously, every other jurisdiction I visit, whether it be Queanbeyan, on the South Coast, in Melbourne or in Sydney, has a green waste collection. Is Canberra really that different?

devils_advocate said :

creative_canberran said :

Mordd said :

I think the recycling bins should be collected every week along with the “rubbish” bin.

I generally put both bins out on recycling day, neither are full but I know people who have their recycling bin over-flowing by bin day.

Whatever happened to the “green waste” bins they were going to bring in?

Every excuse the ACT Govt makes in response to the green waste bin question is incomprehensible to me.

It’s not that complicated. Canberra does really well in terms of green waste not going to landfill because we have an established culture of self-haul. Whether it’s trailers, ute-loads, bags or via trash packs, green waste currently goes into recycling with little to no expenditure by government. To provide a kerb side green waste collection, the ACT Government would have to take on a significant new cost (either copping it or passing it on in rates & charges) that would not necessarily generate much benefit in either economic or environmental terms.

I support the introduction of a combined green waste / food waste collection bin at kerbside in Canberra, but concede funding this would be a challenge. It’s hard to make the numbers stack up. A food/green waste integrated collection might mean you could switch the landfill bin to a fortnightly collection schedule, delivering some savings, but there would be howls of ‘they-took-our-bins’ protest to manage if the government went down that path.

Read #22 and go to the link. That’s how it can be done.

I would suggest it should be the recycling bin that goes out every week and the general bin once a fortnight, but it’s likely that some people who have full bins every week (most are likely not sorting properly to manage that) would, after their rubbish bin is full, treat their recycling bin as a rubbish bin and add to their neighbour’s bin too. Then there is rubbish dumped in the bush. You can’t expect people who can’t sort their rubbish, produce too much to care where their rubbish goes. Then we would have a lot of complaining on here that two weeks is too long, as they have too much rubbish for a fortnight’s service. It would not matter how many people could manage easily, including large households, with a fortnightly collection, they ‘somehow’ can’t.
Another way would be to weight each household’s rubbish as it gets picked up, but again that would fail, because some households see it as their right to produce as much rubbish as they want and be subsidised by those who are more careful. They would be sneaking it into the neighbours bin and dumping it in the bush rather than pay an optional fee. And there would be more complaints here.

But don’t worry, the wasters might soon come out on top again. I had a survey about how water bills are calculated. The suggestion is to raise the supply charges and to lower the water consumption charges. The supply charges alone will be about double what I pay for my whole water bill now, and then my water use will be added.

creative_canberran said :

Mordd said :

I think the recycling bins should be collected every week along with the “rubbish” bin.

I generally put both bins out on recycling day, neither are full but I know people who have their recycling bin over-flowing by bin day.

Whatever happened to the “green waste” bins they were going to bring in?

Every excuse the ACT Govt makes in response to the green waste bin question is incomprehensible to me.

It’s not that complicated. Canberra does really well in terms of green waste not going to landfill because we have an established culture of self-haul. Whether it’s trailers, ute-loads, bags or via trash packs, green waste currently goes into recycling with little to no expenditure by government. To provide a kerb side green waste collection, the ACT Government would have to take on a significant new cost (either copping it or passing it on in rates & charges) that would not necessarily generate much benefit in either economic or environmental terms.

I support the introduction of a combined green waste / food waste collection bin at kerbside in Canberra, but concede funding this would be a challenge. It’s hard to make the numbers stack up. A food/green waste integrated collection might mean you could switch the landfill bin to a fortnightly collection schedule, delivering some savings, but there would be howls of ‘they-took-our-bins’ protest to manage if the government went down that path.

Mordd said :

Why can’t our local council look after the local council stuff, like picking up the garbage, rather than privatising what is core business? How can we trust the ACT Government to run a $1 billion 12-kilometre tram track when it can’t solve a kerbside garbage collection issue?

You forgot to highlight that both garbage collection and the “polly trolley folly” are/will be controlled by the TWU.

creative_canberran said :

Mordd said :

I think the recycling bins should be collected every week along with the “rubbish” bin.

I generally put both bins out on recycling day, neither are full but I know people who have their recycling bin over-flowing by bin day.

Whatever happened to the “green waste” bins they were going to bring in?

Every excuse the ACT Govt makes in response to the green waste bin question is incomprehensible to me.

Light rail is Green waste, however won’t fit in your average wheelie bin!

Mordd said :

I think the recycling bins should be collected every week along with the “rubbish” bin.

I generally put both bins out on recycling day, neither are full but I know people who have their recycling bin over-flowing by bin day.

Whatever happened to the “green waste” bins they were going to bring in?

They let Shepparton do it instead:
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/where-are-the-bags-shepparton-councils-17m-bin-scheme-comes-unstuck/news-story/a9c7428c8a72cf140ca2daf5d738b4df

Apparently the new contractor (Suez) cut severance pay of the drivers despite them having been explicitly told that it wouldn’t happen. Putting aside the absurdly high pay rates, I think most people would somewhat sympathise with the drivers if they knew what the strike was about.

wildturkeycanoe said :

More Labor government waste ?

I reckon! How about that blue sky that we’ve been seeing since Labor came into power?! That travesty would never have happened under a Liberal government!

Why can’t our local council look after the local council stuff, like picking up the garbage, rather than privatising what is core business? How can we trust the ACT Government to run a $1 billion 12-kilometre tram track when it can’t solve a kerbside garbage collection issue?

No blockade this time, so quite polite, so far….

http://the-riotact.com/garbage-trucks-on-london-circuit/117318

Mordd said :

I think the recycling bins should be collected every week along with the “rubbish” bin.

I generally put both bins out on recycling day, neither are full but I know people who have their recycling bin over-flowing by bin day.

Whatever happened to the “green waste” bins they were going to bring in?

Every excuse the ACT Govt makes in response to the green waste bin question is incomprehensible to me.

More Labor government waste ?

we pay Michael Trushell,the director of” NO WASTE ” to tell us there is TOO MUCH WASTE to catch up on.

Why is there a director of no waste when clearly there is hundreds of tonnes of waste.

Light rail just went up 250 million in a few days . That’s also a lot of waste for most Canberran’s except for the few people that may use it for 20 minutes a day.

I think the recycling bins should be collected every week along with the “rubbish” bin. I generally put both bins out on recycling day, neither are full but I know people who have their recycling bin over-flowing by bin day.

Whatever happened to the “green waste” bins they were going to bring in?

rommeldog56 said :

Masquara said :

chewy14 said :

gooterz said :

Mordd said :

DavidL said :

Zan said :

Under the contract, I would assume that the ACT Gov’t will not pay the contractor for the collections missed. There should also be provision for Liquidated Damages to be paid by the contractor.

Therefore, the ACT Gov’t must give affected households/ratepayers a proportional refund on their Annual Rates.

If they don’t, its a windfall financial gain for the ACT Labor/Greens Gov’t.

I would like a refund too for the weeks I don’t put out my bin, because it’s not full enough. I don’t put out my bin for more weeks than I do put it out. But I long ago accepted that I must help subsidise all the people who put a bin out most weeks. (Likely you, or you wouldn’t have complained here.) But it isn’t going to happen for me, and most weeks I don’t use the service, as least for general rubbish.
It’s only one week; you should be able to hold out for that.

Totally, we’re a larger family, and our landfill bin is less than one-fifth full each week. Recycling, composting and redcycling (soft plastic recycling via Coles) doesn’t leave much else.

What about the disposable nappies?

One child still uses a few a week. This is is much of our green bin load each week.

We’re in much the same situation – we’re a family of 5, and fill one grocery bag with rubbish every week. We put it out to keep the recycling bin company. We compost all our food waste (we’re vegetarian so no meat/maggot issues), pet waste, tissues, some paper waste and garden waste. We have a trashpack for bulk garden waste (large prunings and weeds). Our youngest also uses a few nappies per week. We regularly send out cereal boxes and egg cartons to meet school/daycare requests for construction materials.

I do think the strike needs to be resolved, but I’d like to see an overhaul of rubbish collection in the longer term. Our recycling bin is overflowing after two weeks, but it takes weeks to fill our green bin. I think collecting green bins every two weeks should be realistic for most people, with perhaps a little extra effort put into recycling (at home and using govt services).

Maybe we could have a garden waste bin to replace the trashpack, with alternating weeks of landfill/green waste collection?

Perfect 🙂

Masquara said :

chewy14 said :

gooterz said :

Mordd said :

DavidL said :

Zan said :

Under the contract, I would assume that the ACT Gov’t will not pay the contractor for the collections missed. There should also be provision for Liquidated Damages to be paid by the contractor.

Therefore, the ACT Gov’t must give affected households/ratepayers a proportional refund on their Annual Rates.

If they don’t, its a windfall financial gain for the ACT Labor/Greens Gov’t.

I would like a refund too for the weeks I don’t put out my bin, because it’s not full enough. I don’t put out my bin for more weeks than I do put it out. But I long ago accepted that I must help subsidise all the people who put a bin out most weeks. (Likely you, or you wouldn’t have complained here.) But it isn’t going to happen for me, and most weeks I don’t use the service, as least for general rubbish.
It’s only one week; you should be able to hold out for that.

Totally, we’re a larger family, and our landfill bin is less than one-fifth full each week. Recycling, composting and redcycling (soft plastic recycling via Coles) doesn’t leave much else.

What about the disposable nappies?

One child still uses a few a week. This is is much of our green bin load each week.

We’re in much the same situation – we’re a family of 5, and fill one grocery bag with rubbish every week. We put it out to keep the recycling bin company. We compost all our food waste (we’re vegetarian so no meat/maggot issues), pet waste, tissues, some paper waste and garden waste. We have a trashpack for bulk garden waste (large prunings and weeds). Our youngest also uses a few nappies per week. We regularly send out cereal boxes and egg cartons to meet school/daycare requests for construction materials.

I do think the strike needs to be resolved, but I’d like to see an overhaul of rubbish collection in the longer term. Our recycling bin is overflowing after two weeks, but it takes weeks to fill our green bin. I think collecting green bins every two weeks should be realistic for most people, with perhaps a little extra effort put into recycling (at home and using govt services).

Maybe we could have a garden waste bin to replace the trashpack, with alternating weeks of landfill/green waste collection?

Spiral said :

DavidL said :

Zan said :

Under the contract, I would assume that the ACT Gov’t will not pay the contractor for the collections missed. There should also be provision for Liquidated Damages to be paid by the contractor.

Therefore, the ACT Gov’t must give affected households/ratepayers a proportional refund on their Annual Rates.

If they don’t, its a windfall financial gain for the ACT Labor/Greens Gov’t.

I would like a refund too for the weeks I don’t put out my bin, because it’s not full enough. I don’t put out my bin for more weeks than I do put it out. But I long ago accepted that I must help subsidise all the people who put a bin out most weeks. (Likely you, or you wouldn’t have complained here.) But it isn’t going to happen for me, and most weeks I don’t use the service, as least for general rubbish.
It’s only one week; you should be able to hold out for that.

Do you point out which weeks in the year you won’t need a collection at the start of the period or do you pick and choose as it goes on? How much would you put the price of that choice?

So, tell me where I can nominate a rubbish pick up and get a discount for the missed weeks and I’ll do it. You’re the one suggesting this idea. All I said, was that I had accepted I wasn’t getting a discount for the weeks (more not out than out) I wasn’t putting my bin out. I wasn’t making a complaint about missing ONE week of rubbish pick-up.

I really hope the contract was written properly by the ACT government such that no tax payer dollars are going towards this contractor for services not rendered! In fact there should be financial penalties applied to the contractor for each day that the service is not provided, especially since it’s increasing ACT Government costs in other areas. If not, these garbos are costing the community greatly.

Is it really worth it when they’re apparently the best paid in the country and earn above the average wage? Seems selfish to me. What did I do to them, for them to inconvenience me like this? Why don’t they just refuse to collect garbage for their employer’s building or something?

chewy14 said :

gooterz said :

Mordd said :

DavidL said :

Zan said :

Under the contract, I would assume that the ACT Gov’t will not pay the contractor for the collections missed. There should also be provision for Liquidated Damages to be paid by the contractor.

Therefore, the ACT Gov’t must give affected households/ratepayers a proportional refund on their Annual Rates.

If they don’t, its a windfall financial gain for the ACT Labor/Greens Gov’t.

I would like a refund too for the weeks I don’t put out my bin, because it’s not full enough. I don’t put out my bin for more weeks than I do put it out. But I long ago accepted that I must help subsidise all the people who put a bin out most weeks. (Likely you, or you wouldn’t have complained here.) But it isn’t going to happen for me, and most weeks I don’t use the service, as least for general rubbish.
It’s only one week; you should be able to hold out for that.

Totally, we’re a larger family, and our landfill bin is less than one-fifth full each week. Recycling, composting and redcycling (soft plastic recycling via Coles) doesn’t leave much else.

What about the disposable nappies?

One child still uses a few a week. This is is much of our green bin load each week.

We’re in much the same situation – we’re a family of 5, and fill one grocery bag with rubbish every week. We put it out to keep the recycling bin company. We compost all our food waste (we’re vegetarian so no meat/maggot issues), pet waste, tissues, some paper waste and garden waste. We have a trashpack for bulk garden waste (large prunings and weeds). Our youngest also uses a few nappies per week. We regularly send out cereal boxes and egg cartons to meet school/daycare requests for construction materials.

I do think the strike needs to be resolved, but I’d like to see an overhaul of rubbish collection in the longer term. Our recycling bin is overflowing after two weeks, but it takes weeks to fill our green bin. I think collecting green bins every two weeks should be realistic for most people, with perhaps a little extra effort put into recycling (at home and using govt services).

gooterz said :

Mordd said :

DavidL said :

Zan said :

Under the contract, I would assume that the ACT Gov’t will not pay the contractor for the collections missed. There should also be provision for Liquidated Damages to be paid by the contractor.

Therefore, the ACT Gov’t must give affected households/ratepayers a proportional refund on their Annual Rates.

If they don’t, its a windfall financial gain for the ACT Labor/Greens Gov’t.

I would like a refund too for the weeks I don’t put out my bin, because it’s not full enough. I don’t put out my bin for more weeks than I do put it out. But I long ago accepted that I must help subsidise all the people who put a bin out most weeks. (Likely you, or you wouldn’t have complained here.) But it isn’t going to happen for me, and most weeks I don’t use the service, as least for general rubbish.
It’s only one week; you should be able to hold out for that.

Totally, we’re a larger family, and our landfill bin is less than one-fifth full each week. Recycling, composting and redcycling (soft plastic recycling via Coles) doesn’t leave much else.

What about the disposable nappies?

One child still uses a few a week. This is is much of our green bin load each week.

DavidL said :

Zan said :

Under the contract, I would assume that the ACT Gov’t will not pay the contractor for the collections missed. There should also be provision for Liquidated Damages to be paid by the contractor.

Therefore, the ACT Gov’t must give affected households/ratepayers a proportional refund on their Annual Rates.

If they don’t, its a windfall financial gain for the ACT Labor/Greens Gov’t.

I would like a refund too for the weeks I don’t put out my bin, because it’s not full enough. I don’t put out my bin for more weeks than I do put it out. But I long ago accepted that I must help subsidise all the people who put a bin out most weeks. (Likely you, or you wouldn’t have complained here.) But it isn’t going to happen for me, and most weeks I don’t use the service, as least for general rubbish.
It’s only one week; you should be able to hold out for that.

Do you point out which weeks in the year you won’t need a collection at the start of the period or do you pick and choose as it goes on? How much would you put the price of that choice?

Mordd said :

DavidL said :

Zan said :

Under the contract, I would assume that the ACT Gov’t will not pay the contractor for the collections missed. There should also be provision for Liquidated Damages to be paid by the contractor.

Therefore, the ACT Gov’t must give affected households/ratepayers a proportional refund on their Annual Rates.

If they don’t, its a windfall financial gain for the ACT Labor/Greens Gov’t.

I would like a refund too for the weeks I don’t put out my bin, because it’s not full enough. I don’t put out my bin for more weeks than I do put it out. But I long ago accepted that I must help subsidise all the people who put a bin out most weeks. (Likely you, or you wouldn’t have complained here.) But it isn’t going to happen for me, and most weeks I don’t use the service, as least for general rubbish.
It’s only one week; you should be able to hold out for that.

Totally, we’re a larger family, and our landfill bin is less than one-fifth full each week. Recycling, composting and redcycling (soft plastic recycling via Coles) doesn’t leave much else.

What about the disposable nappies?

DavidL said :

Zan said :

Under the contract, I would assume that the ACT Gov’t will not pay the contractor for the collections missed. There should also be provision for Liquidated Damages to be paid by the contractor.

Therefore, the ACT Gov’t must give affected households/ratepayers a proportional refund on their Annual Rates.

If they don’t, its a windfall financial gain for the ACT Labor/Greens Gov’t.

I would like a refund too for the weeks I don’t put out my bin, because it’s not full enough. I don’t put out my bin for more weeks than I do put it out. But I long ago accepted that I must help subsidise all the people who put a bin out most weeks. (Likely you, or you wouldn’t have complained here.) But it isn’t going to happen for me, and most weeks I don’t use the service, as least for general rubbish.
It’s only one week; you should be able to hold out for that.

Totally, we’re a larger family, and our landfill bin is less than one-fifth full each week. Recycling, composting and redcycling (soft plastic recycling via Coles) doesn’t leave much else.

So thanks to the bright sparks that banned plastic bags in Canberra, I’m supposed to go out and buy plastic bags to then fish out of my bin the used tampons, food scraps, dog poo and other non-recyclable rubbishy to place them in said purchased plastic bag and personally deliver them to the rubbish dump during my work hours when I’m supposed to be at work or forgo the kids weekend activities because a bunch of garbage collectors want to go on strike to prove they need to be paid above their station for the university degree that was required to obtain such a rocket science job of driving a truck, lining it up with a bin and pressing a few buttons? And it’s not just one week this is said to be happening!!!!!!!! This is why Canberra is the butt of jokes….

Zan said :

Under the contract, I would assume that the ACT Gov’t will not pay the contractor for the collections missed. There should also be provision for Liquidated Damages to be paid by the contractor.

Therefore, the ACT Gov’t must give affected households/ratepayers a proportional refund on their Annual Rates.

If they don’t, its a windfall financial gain for the ACT Labor/Greens Gov’t.

I would like a refund too for the weeks I don’t put out my bin, because it’s not full enough. I don’t put out my bin for more weeks than I do put it out. But I long ago accepted that I must help subsidise all the people who put a bin out most weeks. (Likely you, or you wouldn’t have complained here.) But it isn’t going to happen for me, and most weeks I don’t use the service, as least for general rubbish.
It’s only one week; you should be able to hold out for that.

I am considering some “industrial action” of my own over this.
Usually, at Christmas, I give a six-pack of beer to the drivers who carry out these services.
This year, I will open each bottle and pour off an amount of beer commensurate with the number of services we did not get.
Also, it will be light beer from now on.

Under the contract, I would assume that the ACT Gov’t will not pay the contractor for the collections missed. There should also be provision for Liquidated Damages to be paid by the contractor.

Therefore, the ACT Gov’t must give affected households/ratepayers a proportional refund on their Annual Rates.

If they don’t, its a windfall financial gain for the ACT Labor/Greens Gov’t.

What action is the government taking against the operator?
Or are we just sitting here paying for a service not provided?

What a joke!
We can drop off the stuff for “free”?
This must mean we get a rebate on our rates for the service we pay for but aren’t getting?
Right?
No.
Why call it “industrial action”; is “strike” not politically correct anymore.