Solution to Kippax dumping?

Jethro said :

grist said :

I’m sure this has been brought up before, but I’ll do it again just for the fun of it!

I just got back from a weekend in Melbourne. Whilst there helped my sister move into a new place from her old goup house. After she’d moved and the remaining residents took stock of the place there was quite a bit of unwanted furniture, including mattresses which had been left by other past residents.

Lucky Melbournites have a council pickup a couple of times a year. Whilst I realise this must cost a bit – both in the provision of the service and in foregone tip fees – the benefit to the locals and to the charities working amongst them must be enourmous.

The temptation to make a midnight rubbish-run to a local charity bin tempered somewhat by the knowledge that there will likely be an opportunity to get rid of your junk in a few months. #jussayin’

I agree with you on the curbside pickups. Brissie does them twice a year, plus you get sent a few free vouchers for the tip a couple of times a year. Far less illegal dumping is the result. (Also, it is great for uni students and other assorted bogans to score a free couch.

Although, if you do decide to illegally dump I don’t see why you feel the need to leave it outside a charity bin and thereby force a charity to spend the money to remove your trash.

Even Queanbeyan Has Council Clean Up Days,And I Might Add, Green Waste Bins.

Jethro said :

grist said :

I agree with you on the curbside pickups. Brissie does them twice a year, plus you get sent a few free vouchers for the tip a couple of times a year. Far less illegal dumping is the result. (Also, it is great for uni students and other assorted bogans to score a free couch..

Yeah, we moved a couch that she’d picked up from out the front of someone’s house some years ago too. Since she is has now joined the mortgage-paying, shop-bought-furniture-owning set with the rest of us, that will soon be left out the front of her new place for the next generation of uni students to camp on. Long live recycling (and the couch)

Since its 2011, one can only assume Canberra is no longer supposedly aspiring to no land fill by 2010. Why cant we have a sensible hard garbage service, like the rest of Australia?? Guess we dont have councils to ensure pragmatic approach to dealing with reality of garbage?? Or possibly ACT Goverment & connected individuals have shares in skip bin business, amazing hike in prices, strangely akin to ACTEWAGL…..

grist said :

I’m sure this has been brought up before, but I’ll do it again just for the fun of it!

I just got back from a weekend in Melbourne. Whilst there helped my sister move into a new place from her old goup house. After she’d moved and the remaining residents took stock of the place there was quite a bit of unwanted furniture, including mattresses which had been left by other past residents.

Lucky Melbournites have a council pickup a couple of times a year. Whilst I realise this must cost a bit – both in the provision of the service and in foregone tip fees – the benefit to the locals and to the charities working amongst them must be enourmous.

The temptation to make a midnight rubbish-run to a local charity bin tempered somewhat by the knowledge that there will likely be an opportunity to get rid of your junk in a few months. #jussayin’

I agree with you on the curbside pickups. Brissie does them twice a year, plus you get sent a few free vouchers for the tip a couple of times a year. Far less illegal dumping is the result. (Also, it is great for uni students and other assorted bogans to score a free couch.

Although, if you do decide to illegally dump I don’t see why you feel the need to leave it outside a charity bin and thereby force a charity to spend the money to remove your trash.

I’m sure this has been brought up before, but I’ll do it again just for the fun of it!

I just got back from a weekend in Melbourne. Whilst there helped my sister move into a new place from her old goup house. After she’d moved and the remaining residents took stock of the place there was quite a bit of unwanted furniture, including mattresses which had been left by other past residents.

Lucky Melbournites have a council pickup a couple of times a year. Whilst I realise this must cost a bit – both in the provision of the service and in foregone tip fees – the benefit to the locals and to the charities working amongst them must be enourmous.

The temptation to make a midnight rubbish-run to a local charity bin tempered somewhat by the knowledge that there will likely be an opportunity to get rid of your junk in a few months. #jussayin’

http://www.armadale.wa.gov.au/Home/Services_and_Facilities/Rangers/Litter_and_Illegal_Dumping

But I’ll hold this uncharitable dumping up as an example of what the “user pays” economy is all about 🙂

The charity bins in Isabella Plains were taken away some time ago: between the dumping and the vandalism it was just too much for the Salvos and St Vinnies to handle. So no more bins.

I have the good fortune of working very close to a St Vinnies shop, so when I get around to clearing out my old clothing I know where to take it.

AAMC said :

Interesting that the thing being dumped are the most expensive items to dispose of at the ACT waste centres.

computer terminal – $15 each
Non-flat panel TV (eg. CRT) screen greater than 54cm diagonally – $40

leaving you crap with the SALVO’s to dispose of – priceless

What?? You mean the govts method of stopping people from doing things by making it really expensive encourages people to do the Wrong Thing? Say it aint so!

I’ve said it before – persuade or pay mall owners to allow smaller, more attractively designed clothing donation bins INSIDE a centre and clear it more regularly – like, once or twice a week. I’d have thought it’d be good civic-minded publicity for an owner to offer an under-utilised corner or space to do so.

No bins accept furniture, TVs etc anyway, so positioning them out where douches can dump is simply asking for trouble.