Tip fees rip off!

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…

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.

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.

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.

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

p1 said :

But car batteries are worth money to recyclers, so you can drop them off for free. You are wasting space in your bin.

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!

Captain RAAF said :

My old spa motor went in there, an old car battery, one of the neighbours pesky cats, lots of packing foam that has a half life of 10 million years etc, they are rubbish bins, I have rubbish, it goes in the bins!

But car batteries are worth money to recyclers, so you can drop them off for free. You are wasting space in your bin.

Stiring up the cat lovers aside, I pretty much agree with Capt RAAF (did I really just say that?). Between wheelie bins, the occasional free dumping of green waste that I don’t want to burn or compost on site, and metal things that recyclers even pay you for, I haven’t been to the tip in forever.

Use the Green and Yellow bins provided by council and fill those bastards up high! Any time you put one of those bins on the kerb and it isn’t full is a lost opportunity to offload your junk!

My old spa motor went in there, an old car battery, one of the neighbours pesky cats, lots of packing foam that has a half life of 10 million years etc, they are rubbish bins, I have rubbish, it goes in the bins!

I sleep easy.

small load costs $10

You must have had something extra like tyres ,tv, mattress or computer equipment or you had a bloody big trailer. Here are the prices http://www.tams.act.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/196074/Final_version_brochure.pdf.

The theory, I think, is that people will dump less rubbish if they have to pay for the privilege. The practice, though, is that people dump their crap anywhere BUT the tip.

I do a tip run every couple of years or so, and make damn sure that the trailer is chockers.

MY RATES HURF DURF