Thread: how do you get rid of rubbish?

Get one of those round grate fire baskets from bunnies and have a marshmallow roast.

Use the dirty stuff up first to get the fire going then put the clean wood on for the roasting.

I have two road frontages on my property, one at the front where the house is, the other at the back where the shed is. I (luckily) have a large wheelie bin on each road. I also have my own gulley/landfill site which is where most of my sawdust/shavings etc end up. If all that fails there is a (free) waste transfer station about 15mins drive away which is open 4 x 1/2 days a week.

Mick

Originally Posted by astrid

, what are we supposed to do with the shellac and meths bottles, the old springs from that chair, the contaminated rags. bits of mdf, broken plywood, old pipe and all that stuff.


Astrid

I put it in the weekly rubbish bin and the council collects it.

And if it is more than my bin can hold there is the neighbour's bin from across the road, and the one next to it, and the one from my other neighbour all of whom are okay with it, and in anycase are already of to work before I do it.


Peter.

Hahahahahah ... Sturdee, I thought I was the only person who skulked around the neighbourhood late on bin night looking for empty space

Theres about 5 young families in our street,
gets quite comical watching the dads with nappy bags stealthily lifting each others bin lids, peering inside and slinking off to the next one.

Astrid

What doesn't fit in the household garbage bin, goes out in the twice yearly council cleanup. There's still a limit on what materials they'll take - like the 10 part full 4 litre paint tins I found in the shed.
I recently had to get a 3 cubic metre skip to dispose of some old treated pine logs after a garden redesign.

Originally Posted by astrid

get rid of the rubbish?

Divorce

Wodonga Council have stopped the free annual hard waste collection but have replaced it with 4 free vouchers to the recycle/hardwaste/greenwaste collection venue.
Each voucher allows 1 x 6x4 trailer load of whatever.

Valid question Astrid. Hard waste collections have become more stringent over time, and there's only so much you can put in your weekly rubbish bin. I wish they would increase the size of the weekly rubbish bin to the capacity of the recycling bin. In the meantime, I have the same problem as you, what to do with it all?

Sneak down to the local factory area or building site dump it in a big skip?
Astrid

If I go to the local tip that is 16klms away as long as I have some recycle stuff I can dump as much as I like. The only thing they charge me for are old tyres @ $2.00 each. Trouble is they are only open for 4 hours twice a week.

I used to have my own land fill but while I was living over the coast my son filled it in.

Where I live my council doesn't have a weekly garbage collection.

dump it in our 1.5m3 bin at our factory. cost about $25.00 to get emptyed, not bad considering the local waste transfer station is upto $30.00 min charge now.

Our council is one of the intelligent ones.
Each household gets 4 hard rubbish collections per year, but you can ring up & 'order' it when you like. They limit you to 1 cubic metre of waste, but if it's recyclable they turn a blind eye, and will pick up whatever you put out.
The only limitations is loose stuff must be bundled, no building waste, no ceramics, concrete or glass.

When we moved house, we had 2 addresses for an overlap period - so I made the most of it & got 8 collections - got rid of all the carpet, lots of timber, scrap metal etc. Pity the new owners in the old place, they have to wait 12 months for it to 'reset'

I also store up waste from renovation projects - you'd be amazed at how much rubble you can get rid of when you put a 20L bucket worth in the bin each week - it soon disappears.


Our 'local' tip is 22km away (this is an urban area too) and they charge over $100 for a stacked box trailer load of waste. I learnt quickly to keep the 'waste' at home & get rid of it in small batches via the bin, as they don't charge for clean fill, timber, steel or recyclables - so I get rid of all that for free.


Have you ever considered giving the garbage truck driver a cold 6 pack? Our local bloke will stop outside your place, give you a couple of minutes to 'reload' and a 6 pack got me 4 bin loads emptied in one go Make sure you have it in buckets or boxes ready to drop into the freshly emptied bin.

A mate did the six pack trick with the rubbish collector and got a second bin emptied. Beer was gladly accepted but two weeks later he got an invoice from the council for $8.00 for a second bin collection. Hardly worth the effort to raise the invoice and now everytime the truck goes past the driver is acknowledged with a salute.

Reducing hard rubbish collections and increased tipping fees will result in more roadside dumping so I hope councils are sensible about how they manage waste. Still they can always set a $1,000 fine and two years incarseration to make them feel like they are doing a good job.