Thread: A short drive through the Australian bush

Its a disgrace, I am a lover of the Aussie bush and I see it all the time

Unfortunately with higher tip charges and lower spare income it is becoming a common problem. What's worse, once One person does it, many other follow suit and dump at the same location.

I don't watch much TV but the other night I stumbled across one of those COP shows and watched about 20 minutes worth. The way the idiots who were pulled over were treating the cops explains everything in that video, self centred, stupid, nothing is my fault, couldn't give a damn, and "don't I f'in pay the wages of those lazy council employees so they can come and pick up my $heet where ever I decide to drop it?"

Hi,
One of the other tricks is to dump it at some facility like Equestrian Park where some one has to get it removed. It happens every couple of months and some times looks more than a private dump, probably someone charging to remove rubbish and pocketing the tip fee as extra profit.
The other pain in the proverbial is put a skip out front and see how much stuff appearers from no where to fill it up for you and how many Vultures don't put the stuff back after they have sorted through it.

Regards

Originally Posted by dai sensei

Unfortunately with higher tip charges and lower spare income it is becoming a common problem. What's worse, once One person does it, many other follow suit and dump at the same location.

Yes Neil, even though it doesn't excuse this behaviour the high tip charges certainly contribute to this. Last time I went to the tip I almost had a heart attack about how much they wanted for me to dump a trailer load, then you have to sort it for them and then half of it gets put on sale in the tip shop.

Having said all that it is also symptomatic of people's lack of care for their surroundings, I have recently returned from a camping holiday in the Vic High Country and when you see how people behave and the amount of rubbish they leave behind it is unbelievable! I am a firm believer in the "if you take it in, you take it out" philosophy. You wouldn't believe the number of papr nappies that people leave behind, beer bottles, cans etc. Then they drive off without extinguishing their camp fires - I could go on.

Originally Posted by A Duke

Hi,
One of the other tricks is to dump it at some facility like Equestrian Park where some one has to get it removed. It happens every couple of months and some times looks more than a private dump, probably someone charging to remove rubbish and pocketing the tip fee as extra profit.
The other pain in the proverbial is put a skip out front and see how much stuff appearers from no where to fill it up for you and how many Vultures don't put the stuff back after they have sorted through it.

Regards

The charity shops are victims of this too - drive past any of their bins on a Sunday night and see how much gets dumped there. Most of it needs to be taken to the tip and they are out of pocket.

Not to mention the pizza boxes, Mackers and KFC containers in our school car parks every morning when I walk the dogs, and there is not an outlet with in three suburbs of here.

Regards

Originally Posted by Big Shed

Yes Neil, even though it doesn't excuse this behaviour the high tip charges certainly contribute to this. Last time I went to the tip I almost had a heart attack about how much they wanted for me to dump a trailer load.

I agree, Fred. I do not condone it but I understand when mattresses are dumped as they charge $30+ at the transfer station and then they are probably collected by a company that recycles the internal spring frame.

My mate lives on a rural block accessed by a dirt road. This road (dirt track really) services 5 families. The mate was on his way to the tip when he discovered some low life had deposited half a box trailer of rubbish. Thankfully not biological. He loaded this "extra" bit and off to the tip he went. The tip attendant, when told by the mate that it had been dumped "illegally", on this bush track the attendant then charged him $5 because it wasn't the mates rubbish. The mate had an argument and paid the fee but wasn't happy. The attendant was only "doing his job" but may be over zealously.

I live 18 miles from Tamworth and 3 miles from our village. The road goes on for another 12 miles servicing rural/hobby farms and is a dead end. When I cut the grass between the tarred road and my front fence I regularly pick up McDonalds wrappers obviously thrown out by "locals".

When we would go somewhere and have picnic in a park I would often pick up rubbish on the left on the ground,while I was on my way to the toilets. My kids used to get annoyed with me,(because it wasn't our rubbish) but I used to say to them that the bit I picked up was that bit less the next picnicers would see

I got annoyed the other day on the way to town, not the highway, when I noticed a mattress, washing machine and a little bit of other stuff, dumped next to the road.

National Parks had a motto

Take Nothing But Photos-Leave Nothing But Footprints

Really, its no hardship to look after you own stuff!!

I am always amazed by such gross ignorance and environmental vandalism. It makes my blood boil!!

When I lived in the Riverina I had to drive to and from Wagga Wagga fairly frequently. As droughts
deepened and the traveling stock routes were stripped by passing herds the rubbish was exposed.
It was interesting to see how at a certain distance from each town, Wagg Wagga in particular. there
was a sharp rise in the amount of waste beside the road. How much does it cost to carry your bottles,
cans and wrappers home and dispose of them there??

The Burrum Heads road is a strip tip of cast of wrappers, cans and bottles. The other day there was a
plastic bucket in the middle of the road which I intended to pick up. Some idiot decided to run over it and
smash it to pieces. His swerving to do so was a danger to others and prevented me from stopping.

Howm would these people feel if someone was to dump rubbish in their yard?? Not happy I suggest.

The problem is everywhere.

Catching the barstewards is the really hard bit. Occasionally, you can get lucky if you can find something with a name or address on it.

We can tag and follow whales, sharks, crocs & bandicoots, why aren't we setting up motion sensored cameras in these hot spots to catch a few. Yes the cost may be high, but illegal dumping has both short term costs - removing the crap, and the long term costs associated with environmental damage and habitat loss.

TT

I've belonged to several 4WD Clubs (at once), we used to go to an area and do clean ups, as you say all sorts of crap, car bodies, was a lot of them, washing and dryer machines, general rubbish we even found a SAFE that was oxy cut.
The photo posted was small in comparison, to some of the heaps found.
I heard of a farmer, who found a load of rubbish on the edge of the road, not far from his house gate, went through it, and found an address. Went and got his truck, loaded up the rubbish AND a heap from home, went around to the address he found and proceeded to tip 3 tonnes of rubbish on the front lawn of this immaculately presented home in the burbs. To say the home owner was not impressed would be an understatement, cocky told him "he was sick and tired of people using his place as a dump, see how you like it" and left.
If a few more addresses could be found, people charged and fined severely, this might not happen as much.
Kryn

When I worked alongside Victorian EPA staff, it was quite common for them to go through dumped rubbish and find addresses. Unless the person admits that they've dumped it, though, they still have to work to secure a conviction.

Not exactly rubbish, but vandalism: We had a data logger & chart recorder destroyed by vandals. Because the logger was transmitting data until it was damaged, we knew exactly when the vandalism occurred. When we reported it to the police, one of them remembered driving past the area (a public park) not long before, and recognised some of the kids hanging around there. He fronted them and, appearing to know more than he really did, soon found the offenders who admitted what they'd done.