New levels of down in the weeds policy as Zed promises green waste bins

miz said :

I prefer the green waste bins idea as it will result in clean compost or mulch that can be purchased. Far preferable to the proposed post-dumping collection mooted by present govt, which will result in contamination.
Queanbeyan has got it right http://www.qcc.nsw.gov.au/Council-Services/Waste—Recycling/Your-3-Bin-System/Your-3-Bin-System

Careful though. Cold homeless kids might find the bin warm and move in. There goes the area!

Green bins were actually costed by the Hyder report at $19 million dollars. Shared over the 148,000 houses in Canberra that’s an extra $128 each on all of our rates. Thanks Zed!

Pitchka said :

A green waste bin would stop me from throwing my plant trimmings into my recycling bin..And before you get on your high horses, if we recycled correctly, many people would be out of a job, im just keeping them employed.

You know you should use the waste bin for that.

A green waste bin would stop me from throwing my plant trimmings into my recycling bin..And before you get on your high horses, if we recycled correctly, many people would be out of a job, im just keeping them employed.

I like the idea of a green bin, but for the effort of sending around another garbage truck and deploying thousands of plastic bins, I’d prefer it if it did all organic waste, not just garden waste.
Corbell claims that we currently divert 90% of garden waste at a cost of $5/tonne, so I’m not seeing the unmet need for a dedicated green bin, which he also claims will cost $50/tonne.

I’m also not convinced that Labor’s plan to separate organic waste from the general waste stream will be as cheap to run as they say, nor can it possibly end up with a quality, un-contaminated product at the end.

At a running cost of $5.5 million a year for the Liberals plan, and roughly 100k households in ACT, that will cost us each about $55/household. What percentage of households would actually use the bins?
I compost all of my own organic waste, and I would assume many other gardeners would too as it’s a valuable resource.
Subtract the apartments, townhouses and houses that already have a commercial gardener drop off green waste at one of the existing facilities and you could be down to as low as 25% of households, which would then run a cost of $420/active household/year (more if the $5.5million figure assumes an unachievable quantity of finished compost sold to offset the cost) – we’d be better off just paying the quoted $400/year for private green waste collection.

Now if it was the same cost for a service that collected ALL organic waste, every household (minus those that already compost themselves) plus restaurants, supermarkets etc. could divert food waste, soiled paper and other organics in addition to garden waste and we could potentially divert about 50% or more of our current waste stream, which could save money in reduced general waste collection/disposal too.

Glen Takkenberg

Will this result in a third 27 tonne truck plying every street in Canberra each week?

More green madness

I prefer the green waste bins idea as it will result in clean compost or mulch that can be purchased. Far preferable to the proposed post-dumping collection mooted by present govt, which will result in contamination.
Queanbeyan has got it right http://www.qcc.nsw.gov.au/Council-Services/Waste—Recycling/Your-3-Bin-System/Your-3-Bin-System

kakosi said :

Ever heard of composting? Lugging garden clippings away is not in any way shape or form “green”.

Every heard of the clippings you cant compost (such as larger larger branches, diseased plants etc) and the excess of green waste that some of us can’t use?

I pay for the removal of this stuff now. For the rates I pay I would like to see something useful to me – not just street art.

about time.

DrKoresh said :

Zed always manages to cut straight the heart of what really matters most to the electorate, doesn’t he? The REAL issues.

What a joke, honestly.

I know. Doesn’t he realise that all we care about is more public art and gay marriage?

Stealing ALP policy now .. what a stooge.

Down at the coast, you not only get a green waste bin, but occasional collections of branches and clippings too large for the bin.

Let’s hope someone else tops this with green bins and weekly
emptying of recycling bins

Looks like the trailer price bubble might finally burst, leaving those less fortunate finally able to buy a trailer

Ever heard of composting? Lugging garden clippings away is not in any way shape or form “green”.

Zed always manages to cut straight the heart of what really matters most to the electorate, doesn’t he? The REAL issues. What a joke, honestly.

In this town, a headline that suggests the Libs bin their policies would probably attract more attention.

good idea to have a green waste bin, but at the moment, I pay the cost of petrol to get from Monash to Corkhill at Mugga to dispose of my green waste. that is a lot less than $400 per year. not only that, I don’t have to pay at Corkhill.

how much will the green bin collection service and processing facility actually cost me?

Although strictly, the headline mentioned @1 makes sense, I agree that is untidy and possibly confusing at first glance. But inserting Green might mean confusion with the Greens. ‘New Bins?’ might do the job.

JB, you missed a “be” in this sentence: “announced that if elected we shall * joining most of the rest of Australia” 😛

Gold Medal to the Sunday Canberra Times for their misleading front page headline:
LIBS’ BINS PLEDGE with a font size even larger than the one given every Sunday to Annabel Crabb on page 2.
Only the tiny apostrophe saves the true meaning from being belied.
Too much to ask for the word “GREEN” to be inserted between LIBS’ and BINS I suppose?