On the weekend it was time for the twice a year council clean up in our suburb. Syl & I put out what we wanted to get get rid of, placed out the front of our home and most neighbours doing the same for pickup today and tomorrow.
When I get home from work today our rubbish and the neighbours is now spread all over the footpath, buy these "so and so's" who persist in sorting through every piece of rubbish to take something they might think is of value or something they may need. Even cardboard boxes were torn open.
Now we dont have a problem with people picking up stuff, but why the hell do these people persist in throwing it everywhere during their search and leaving it strewn everywhere???
Daryl
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Here in Bacchus Marsh Vic our Council is the most tight fisted I'v known anywhere...We would'nt know what a Clean up day was Always they say "No Money I say Bloody rubbish
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I always leave my camping area cleaner than I found it.
On the weekend it was time for the twice a year council clean up in our suburb. Syl & I put out what we wanted to get get rid of, placed out the front of our home and most neighbours doing the same for pickup today and tomorrow.
When I get home from work today our rubbish and the neighbours is now spread all over the footpath, buy these "so and so's" who persist in sorting through every piece of rubbish to take something they might think is of value or something they may need. Even cardboard boxes were torn open.
Now we dont have a problem with people picking up stuff, but why the hell do these people persist in throwing it everywhere during their search and leaving it strewn everywhere???
Daryl
Because they can & know they will get away with it.
We dont have privalage of a clean up day.
This council is to lazy to even read its own water meters, contracts it to an out of town company, so dont even support local workers who are rate payers.
To contract the job out of town, that company has to send a person & vehicle 300+ kls, can bet on living away from home allowances, accom , etc etc, & thats supposed to be cheaper.
JC.
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Our council doesn't have much together like most, but they send us 4 dump passes a year with our rates. You can take a trailer load up to the dump for nothing.
They run out at the end of the financial year each year.
Takes away the collections out the front and gives you the flexibility of doing the clean up at your leisure really.
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I must be a binge thinker. I do it a lot at times, then, not much at all.
I read in the paper on the weekend that 2 Melb councils have decided to cease curbside collections because of the problem caused by "pickers" spreading the rubbish - they will offor householders an annual skip bin instead
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Jenny and Barry
2009 Roma Elegance / 2013 Colorado. Permanent travellers 2011-2015 now just travel for 4-6 mths
Our council has stopped kerb side pick ups- but they haven''t worked out what to do insread
When I rang them, They sent me a tip pass and I took my stuff in for free.
The website says they will be allowing 4 pick ups per year (you ring them, and they come out)- but it hasn''t started yet as they are still working it out.
Seems, in addition to the kerbside mess, the council was missing out on earning money from the junk- e.g. recycling the metal etc which everyone was so keen to pick out for free.
I hate Councils with a passion.....They are bludgers outsourcing meters is disgusting...It's the local people who are to blame because They do not tell councils how they feel.....I live opposite a former Major Now a member who is a hard worker for the council...as he said to me..I can't get these bastards to listen....We have at least a recycle bloke who charges nothing for metal that is great a few cutting cost $8 for you who have seen my little trailer..
halved the Councils..I believe they are not looking after the people
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I always leave my camping area cleaner than I found it.
Looks there's another case for national standards for local governments. Some councilors are even paid by the council/rate payers. Not just allowances and expenses, but a salary. Mayors are paid a salary. What happened to the councillors and mayors who were members of the community they make decisions about, who did it for a menial honourium and allowance? One person's trash is someone else's treasure and this is obvious in the kerbside clean-up. I think the dump pass concept is a beauty. Handing them out with the receipt for council rates is great management. Giving a little back. Council rates % also varies vastly from council to council. I'm glad I don't own any real estate to have to pay rates for. Good luck rate payers.
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Management makes the decisions, but is not affected by the decisions it makes.
There's a curbside cleanup in Logan Qld twice a year. I haven't noticed the 'pickers' but what amazes me is the assortment of 'rubbish' according to which subrub I drive through. In the 'nicer' suburbs it's things like broken chairs, old modems, maybe some green waste...minimal and tidy.
But if I go through a 'low socio economic' suburb, it's all sorts of c**p, from dirty old mattress', to bits of cars, to huge mountains of garden waste. And it takes up practically the whole footpath/nature strip!
And in those same suburbs, they put it out any time, not just for that twice a year! There are regulations about what sort of stuff they can put out, but they take no notice of that either!
Our local dump site charges by weight, you go over the bridge on the way in and on the way out, the difference in weight is then converted to a sum of money to be paid.
Recently I had a very big, old, heavy dead TV to dispose of, was charged $7 on the way in for "special item" then advised to toss the TV in with all the other rubbish. On the way out I was slugged another $5 for the weight loss.
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