www.supercheapauto.com.au/Product/Ridge-Ryder-Spare-Tyre-Bin-Storage-Bag/291163

We have one of these fitted to our caravans spare wheel cover, holds about 8 shopping bags full of rubbish (about 12 days worth).

It has drain holes at the bottom, can be sprayed out with a hose & is sealed at the top with Velcro (no flies).

We sometimes get people behind us thinking that we're losing our spare wheel cover. We have to tell them that it's our rubbish carrier.

We spend most of our time out in the bush, then dump our rubbish in town in an appropriate location such as a large hopper.

G'day matey

I also have a set of bbq tongs for picking up stuff, I get a roll of garden-sized bright red bags and around I go at many sites I stop at.
Some are spotlessly clean anyway - the ones I find grubby are the non-toileted, non-binned ones, where travellers leave 'streamers' in the bushes, and heap tins & bottles on top of their streamers

Disposal is in the next large town, and if I can't find a hopper or large wheely bin, I call into the council depot and ask them to take it. Never had a refusal or had to pay anything

Hope this helps
Phil

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
Unquote

I do not have the answer, I wish that I did

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?

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

-- Edited by Tony Bev on Wednesday 29th of March 2017 04:38:34 PM

Have been at Whyalla S A for s few days. The roads close to town are littered with cans and bottles and whatever. There are dirt tracks bordering the highway close to the town, which are littered with refuse that has been dumped by the trailer load. Tyres, building material, prunings, smashed bottles, oil, household rubbish, you name it. Unfortunately it is an attitude that says. Who cares, not my problem, let someone else worry about it. Teaching children the same and when they go camping , they leave the area as they live. Like pigs. My little rant. Cheers daz