Tip fees rip off!

Bundybear said :

Keep it up GBT and this year your Body Corporate fees will be up $100-00 to cover the cost of … you guessed it … paying someone to come and take your junk to the tip.

Yeah, so you dump it at another block of flats, get with the program mate! Sheesh!@@

Keep it up GBT and this year your Body Corporate fees will be up $100-00 to cover the cost of … you guessed it … paying someone to come and take your junk to the tip.

Couple of weekends back I took a half load of green waste and a half load of household (6×4), dropped off the green for free and still got charged $20.00 for the rest. Aaargh.

Just dump it in Stanhopeless’ car spot outside the front doors of the Legislative Assembly.

Yes farnakler, the littlies could finally make sensible use of their can-swigging bogan parents.

This is sort of on topic but I wonder how much money people get in SA for taking their cans and bottles back to the depots? I always see it on cans, etc and think there must be kids in Adelaide who are making some decent money collecting cans/bottles from sporting events, concerts, etc. I remember as a child the gov’t used to pay for recycled cans but it was really piddly like 20c a kilo; not enough to warrant much effort. 10c per bottle/can though would be a decent incentive to children would it not?

Genie said :

MelonHead said :

Just do what others do. Leave your trash piled up against the side of a charity bin. Simple really. You become the charity. No need for those pesky tip fees.

Yeah just add it to the mess at Kippax at the moment.. Wish I took a pic last night. The “dump” pile was at least 1m high and spread out on the whole footpath near the bins.

It is a pretty pile down there at the moment. I also felt a pang of regret that I did not take a pic of that monument to the Western Belconnen Bogan.

GBT said :

georgesgenitals said :

Rangi said :

Our council (Yass)did a really good clean up day a few years ago, you put your junk out on the kerb people had a day to take what they wanted then the council came and picked up the rest, I got to get rid of heaps of junk and get a whole heap of new junk.

I wish they would make it a regular thing every couple of years would do.

Oh crap did I really say a local council did something good? Self flagellation time again.

Queanbeyan does a couple of kerbside pickups of your old junk each year. Just another reason why Canberra will never be more than simply the gateway to Queanbeyan.

Yep, much like the River Styx is the gateway to the underworld (read: hell)

In Canberra’s case we could rename the lake to ‘Stynx’.

georgesgenitals said :

Rangi said :

Our council (Yass)did a really good clean up day a few years ago, you put your junk out on the kerb people had a day to take what they wanted then the council came and picked up the rest, I got to get rid of heaps of junk and get a whole heap of new junk.

I wish they would make it a regular thing every couple of years would do.

Oh crap did I really say a local council did something good? Self flagellation time again.

Queanbeyan does a couple of kerbside pickups of your old junk each year. Just another reason why Canberra will never be more than simply the gateway to Queanbeyan.

Yep, much like the River Styx is the gateway to the underworld (read: hell)

I’m pretty sure your rates only pay for the COLLECTION of rubbish, not the free disposal of, willy nilly.

The rest of Canberra dumps their crap on the side of the Monaro Highway.

Cats, landfill, dildos, carcasses of all descriptions, big arse bags of weed, 80s furniture, large piles of feces – I’ve seen it all.

MelonHead said :

Just do what others do. Leave your trash piled up against the side of a charity bin. Simple really. You become the charity. No need for those pesky tip fees.

Yeah just add it to the mess at Kippax at the moment.. Wish I took a pic last night. The “dump” pile was at least 1m high and spread out on the whole footpath near the bins.

Rangi said :

Our council (Yass)did a really good clean up day a few years ago, you put your junk out on the kerb people had a day to take what they wanted then the council came and picked up the rest, I got to get rid of heaps of junk and get a whole heap of new junk.

I wish they would make it a regular thing every couple of years would do.

Oh crap did I really say a local council did something good? Self flagellation time again.

Queanbeyan does a couple of kerbside pickups of your old junk each year. Just another reason why Canberra will never be more than simply the gateway to Queanbeyan.

georgesgenitals said :

Frano said :

The sooner we get green bins to put our garden waste in the better. This was proposed some years back but nothing has eventuated…

Move to Queanbeyan, where we have exchanged bogans for green waste bins.

Drove through struggle town just w/e gone, plenty of bogans to be seen..

p1 said :

GBT said :

Once of the (few) privileges of living in a Body Corporate is you can just dump pretty much anything in the rubbish area and they will take it away, despite the pesky letters they keep sending saying it’s against the rules. My mistake, I thought I was paying $1600 pa body corporate fees for those sorts of advantages.

And everybody has at least one friend who lives in a body corporate rental. So go visit them, take a six pack and your old dishwasher.

I didn’t know that! There’s one just down the road from me and therefore a lot closer than the tip! Time to load up the midnight special!

Your mistake is that you’re reading the letters.

Our council (Yass)did a really good clean up day a few years ago, you put your junk out on the kerb people had a day to take what they wanted then the council came and picked up the rest, I got to get rid of heaps of junk and get a whole heap of new junk.

I wish they would make it a regular thing every couple of years would do.

Oh crap did I really say a local council did something good? Self flagellation time again.

shadow boxer said :

It’s amazing what you can fit in those green bins, it took some work with the angle grinder but I actually got rid of a dishwasher in one.

I found the weight limit of the recycling bin recently when they refused to pick it up. It wasn’t overflowing, just efficiently packed with paper waste.

GBT said :

Once of the (few) privileges of living in a Body Corporate is you can just dump pretty much anything in the rubbish area and they will take it away, despite the pesky letters they keep sending saying it’s against the rules. My mistake, I thought I was paying $1600 pa body corporate fees for those sorts of advantages.

And everybody has at least one friend who lives in a body corporate rental. So go visit them, take a six pack and your old dishwasher.

Once of the (few) privileges of living in a Body Corporate is you can just dump pretty much anything in the rubbish area and they will take it away, despite the pesky letters they keep sending saying it’s against the rules. My mistake, I thought I was paying $1600 pa body corporate fees for those sorts of advantages.

shadow boxer said :

It’s amazing what you can fit in those green bins, it took some work with the angle grinder but I actually got rid of a dishwasher in one.

QLD has a better system where your rates entitle you to 2 free tip trips a year.

Yes and also they have that ‘put trash on your kerb and it will become someone elses treasure’ initiative. I put a bunch of trash (that the previous owners had left behind) on my front kerb one night and by the next morning..magic!!!…the trash fairies had come and taken it all away. Love it
🙂

Captain RAAF said :

It would cost me more to fire up one of my beasts and head to the recyclers than those tight arse gypsies are going to pay me for a battery, plus I’d have to get off my arse. Aint happening, it’s goin in the bin!

Certainly not worth it unless you are going that way for something else. Which probably explains my stockpile of expired car batteries…