Hi All. Quick question for people who, like me, hate the rubbish that so many leave behind. For those of you who spend a bit of time and pick up others rubbish, and should be applauded for doing so, what is then the best method of disposal. I have got myself some gloves, pick up tool and garbage bags and intend to do the same but would be cautious about leaving it at a roadside bin only to have animals (4 legged and 2 legged) spread it out again or the wind do the same. If I had room I could cart it to town and then get the dirty looks from people when you are putting large bags of rubbish in public bins or worse still have to pay to take it to the tip.

Would be so much nicer if people would just take their rubbish with them.. They can cart it in why can't they cart it out.

Look forward to your responses

cheers

Joff

Hi. We pick up rubbish at freecamps and dispose of it with our own at the next town we visit. Most towns seem to provide large bins or the footy oval. If I see people littering I take a photo of their vehicle and send it to the local council. They need to be robbed in. Col P

Thanks everyone for your suggestions. With a combination of everything hopefully we can do a little bit to start helping clean this wonderful country up.

cheers all, travel safe.

I am still looking for a bird proof rubbish bag

As GRUNT seems to be a large Australian manufacturer of rubbish bin liners, I emailed them a few days ago, asking if they made a bird proof rubbish bag

As I have no room to take other peoples rubbish with me, the best I can do is just clean up, whenever I can

My best idea so far is to buy some sandbag type sacks, fill them up, and them stack them near the overflowing bins

But...

At the moment I am still not sure if this is a good idea, because a sandbag will take a long time to disintegrate

As a sidenote it is interesting to read in the new Camps Australia Wide book 9, on page 14 and 15, the mention of rubbish

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A well looked after site will give the authorities a good reason to keep it open for our use
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I do not have the answer, I wish that I did

Been a couple of threads on this topic, damned frustrating that we should even need it. Reality is, there is no solution to changing humans of a certain type who are hell bent on adorning the countryside with their rubbish, so it's left to the rest of us to apply some ingenuity and compensate for these cretins.

I know that we are preaching to the choir boys in this forum, when we talk about rubbish in the free camps

I believe that the authorities are trying to put the message out
I just hope that some camps are not closed, due to the expense of rubbish clean-ups

The pictures tell a story

Bam wrote:

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At our last camp I picked burnt cans and bottles out of the supplied fire pit, and placed them in the provided bin about 50 metres away.

Why the person who put them in there couldn't do the same is beyond me!

I guess there have always been tossers & always will be...I hope they never outnumber the people who do the right thing.

I wonder if the Clean up Australia committee could advise re the bird proof bags?

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Thanks for that info Bam

I was unaware of this Clean up Australia committee

I have just been on their web site, and saw that they do have clean up rubbish bags for sale

I have sent an email asking if their bags are bird proof
Hopefully I explained that in some remote areas, the local council only went to pick up the rubbish, on a monthly basis

I did not mention the area to them, but I have read on this forum, that the Baxter rest area on the Nullarbor is looked after by the Dundas shire, who only collect the rubbish once a month
This is due to economic restraint, as it is a 500 kilometre round trip

I stopped overnight in that camp at the end of 2016, I could see that there were only two overflowing bins, and plenty of rubbish
Having no means of taking other peoples rubbish away with me, I could only leave it there

I only carry normal bin liners, large and small
The boss pointed out that if I used them, the birds would quickly rip them to pieces, and the rubbish would be once again scatted everywhere

On my return journey I just drove passed this camp

Edit to say that I have had a reply from Clean Up Australia, regarding their (what they call) bottle bags

The reply came from a spokes lady for Clean Up Australia

She said that leaving a bag full of rubbish, especially if there was food in it, left for a long time, may still be problematic, as the birds would eventually peck through it
She said that she could not therefore guarantee that their bags would last for a month

I then sent a second email asking if she could make an educated guess, on how long their bags would last

She mentioned that an ibis with a strong beak, would probably get into the bag within a few days, and that other birds may take up to a week or longer

I put this up as a follow through, to what has already been posted
I hope that others may have better ideas than myself

I point out that before Bam mentioned Clean Up Australia committee, I had not even thought of them

Thats a shame Tony Bev, I thought they may have a solution.

I don't know what the answer is and google was no help.

Hopefully the younger generation will be more environmentally aware.

Good on you for caring enough to follow that up and cleaning up other people's rubbish.