31 July 2009

The bell tolls for Aussie Junk, and the communities that rely on it

31 July 2009 | johnboy

The Department of Territory and Municipal Services has announced that Aussie Junk has been placed in liquidation.

This is going to have some repercussions while the mess is sorted out:

“A public tender process will commence shortly to engage an operator for the Mugga Lane facility. It is anticipated that a new operator to accept and resell goods should be in the facility within three months,” said Chris Ware, Manager of ACT NOWaste.

“People will still be able to deposit reusable items at the Mitchell Resource Management Centre as Thiess Services, which has previously sub-contracted to Aussie Junk, transitions to take over management of this facility.”

Members of the public are encouraged to drop-off their reusables at the Mitchell facility or to one of the charities or businesses that accept second-hand goods for recycling or resale. Details of some of those organisations can be found in the Yellow Pages and on the Department of Territory and Municipal Services’ website.

So for at least the next three months no more nipping out to Aussie Junk for cheap furniture, bicycles, etc.

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carmer19206:37 pm 14 Aug 09

Was out at Mugga Lane dropping off some rubbish,on the weekend. Drove past reusable drop off point young guy working there clothes were covered in paint, also noticed the driver of the machine in the transfer station was smoking, in the cub while he was pushing the rubbish, two other workers in the pit floor playing golf, what the hells going on, they have no flipping idea, OHNS,on the way out noticed paint and i mean lots of tins on pellets, gas bottles on pellets beside the pit, paint tins galour in the Aussie junk yard.Whats that NOWASTE, my ****, goverment have no idea. Wheres all the paint go? what do they do with it? there will never be NOWASTE.

TRASHPACK7:27 pm 12 Aug 09

I agree that ACT NOWASTE seem to have no idea about recycling. The transfer station has certainly spelt the end to any recycling of saleable goods that are dumped by the public. Theiss plant destroys what isn’t broken from going over the wall and then scoop it up before the the recycle contractor employees can pick it up. In the old days REVOLVE would collect up to four large truck loads at the tip face on Saturdays and Sundays. AJ was lucky to recover a small ute load of basically usless crap. It is time the Government understood that there is a difference between recycling and reselling. Recycling the vast amounts of consumer goods that cannot be resold and subsequently end up as landfill, requires a lot more smarts than your average junkyard dog. Perhaps there is a need to have two contract; one for reusable goods and one for recycling. The current volume of waste that ends up in landfill is a joke and a sad indictment of the Government’s failure to address the issue. I recall the fanfare and the press release when the contract was awarded to AJ. Blind Freddy would have known that they were not up to the task. A trip to the Wagga or Albury operation would have confirmed this for them.

actnowaste1:55 am 02 Aug 09

I knew that aussie junk would not last long at mugga.
They never had no stock it was the same old stuff week in week out, they never had any timber,no roofing iron, no gates, no steel off cuts, no wire, no bricks or pavers, no old tools, no nic nacs and nothing for the weekend project.
If it went past the drop off it would be crushed and sent to landfill all they would get from the tranfer station was video players, dvd players, old tvs and paint.
I think it’s a joke how ACT nowaste lets this happen nothing is recycled for reuse they just wacth it all go to the tranfer station. When they go to pickup the goods they are not there.
The contracter of the tranfer station would say it was no good or it’s was broken or we didnt see it.
I dont know who wrote the contract for mugga lane but they didnt write it for the purpose of reuse recycling at all, what were they thimking of!
It’s a contract that only ACT nowaste puplic servents with only a text book knowledge of recycling and no real first hand expererance at all would be proud of.
Will they ever get it right.

ant10:57 am 01 Aug 09

The Revolve shop is at Stonehenge, the first shed you come to. It’s full of stuff, kind-of interesting, but I think they still tend to bung on the prices a bit. A shame.

The cat did it10:27 pm 31 Jul 09

Has anyone been to the Revolve ‘Better Bits’ store that is supposed to operate at Pialligo? or is it merely a ruse to get stuff out of the Hume site and onto eBay?

ant9:55 pm 31 Jul 09

They just need a spot out the front of the tip, where people can offload stuff that could be re-useable. And they just need one person to check that it’s not actual useless rubbish, and to point them where to put it. Then people can come and look at it, and take what they want. It doesn’t need to be charged-for, and it would all work much better.

Felix the Cat9:35 pm 31 Jul 09

How does a business that doesn’t pay anything for it’s stock go broke?

Hells_Bells745:30 pm 31 Jul 09

It’s our junk at the tip and for want of donating!

Hells_Bells745:28 pm 31 Jul 09

Where’s the community consultation on this one?

Qbn Gal3:16 pm 31 Jul 09

Thanks Loose Brown

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