Stanhope requests: rat on your neighbour

Good ideas there seepi, thanks.

Yes – we have a trailor – and rego on those is phenomenal as well. this govt is biting everywhere they can. But if you don’t have one Toms Trash packs will get rid of stuff. They took away a whole lot of ancient paint tins and mouldy carpet for me for about 30.00 – a couple of years ago.

‘freecycle’ website is another good way to get rid of stuff. It amazes me the stuff people want (non working lawnmowers, ancient monitors etc). It is a yahoo group though, so you have to join up.

Second hand sunday is stupid. They should run it a few suburbs at a time and get rid of the left overs.

You guys must all have trailers! I REALLY wish there was a hard rubbish collection here. I just break stuff up really small and put it in the bin, what else can I do?

Up the Central Coast there were two free ‘council collections’ (which included green bundled loppings etc) a year. I have called NOWaste about getting one here but they reckon it would be too exie, though this seems like BS – I don’t think Qbn’s rates are astronomical and they have one.

However, Second Hand Sunday was dumb. It would only have been good if it was followed up by a real collection for the stuff no one took.

Someone has dumped a shady, dodgy looking fast food van near the Pine Island turnoff in Tuggers. Hope they clear it away soon.

I took 4 carloads of garden stuff out to the old tip at belconnen two weeks ago and didn’t cop a charge. I don’t even know where the other tips are anymore. Just drive around and find a spare skip on someones nature strip and use that!

“where you put large rubbish and old furniture out on the curb and the govt picks it up”

lol my mate sells stuff like that on ebay. I kid you not if he wants to get rid of an old desk. He’ll put it on ebay for $20 local pick up only and he allways manages to off load it.

Also, Queanbeyean has a green waste recycling centre run by the Council. You dump for free then get very cheap mulch made from what everyone dumps.

The fee in ACT is based on volume. Also, I recently had to pay to dump clean fill (some clay from my back yard), and they just sent me up to the top of Mugga tip where the trucks unload. What a crock. Also, what is with having that stupid concrete wall you have to throw everything over?? When I have garden waste I have to reshovel it all over the edge!!

To request people to have zero waste is unrealistic. It will happen when they accept ANYTHING for recycling.

I think it’s just at CSG in Holt (that’s where I dump my non-compostable) green waste). Also – it’s only a buck a trailer/car/ute load.

Apparently they levied the fee so they could have someone supervising. People were dumping general rubbish and green contaminants (ivy, bamboo, turf rolls, etc) along with their lawn clippings and rose prunings, which was messing up their shredders.

I suspect its still pretty cheap to dump stuff at the tip here in Canberra – admittedly my experience is limited to a one off on the outskirts of Melbourne – but it cost us around $22 to dump a ute load of crap at the Lillydale tip about six months ago. Here its a set fee, there is was based on weight.

It’s worth noting though that down there, the local governmnet gives you a tip voucher when you pay your rates that entitles you to one free trip per year.