Council Pick Ups

[bum]

He certainly has more than enough periods already, anyway.

 

[jimmyjack]

My wife and i put crap out and then watch from our blinds and die laughing at the crap people take. I had a newish style hot water heater someone snapped up within 30 minutes of putting out. It definately did not have any copper in it. I also put a stripped out Washing machine. I stripped the motor cause I thought I could use it for a mill later.

 

[Mattress]

Our local council (they call themselves a local government but really, they're not much more than a council) doesn't provide a hard rubbish pick up and charge lots to take it to the tip. - $50.00 per tv or computer monitor.

Most people take their crap and dump it at the charity bin at the local shops. The bins overflow and people keep just piling it up on the footpath.

They've had to bring in exemptions from tip fees for charities as they have to take everyone else's crap to the dump, and they are also talking about employing people to monitor the charity bins and fine people who put stuff there that they don't consider to be a high enough quality for charities.

Would be a lot easier for everyone if they had an annual hard rubbish day in my opinion.

 

[_HOME_BREW_WALLACE_]

The Redland Shire City Council has never done Curb-Side Pickup to my knowledge. By the time i nosey on over to the Brisbane City Council side all the good stuff is usually taken <_<

Although i have found a perfectly good flat basketball and a half eaten banana h34r:

 

[ledgenko]

Thanks BUM ... always a pleasure dealing with you and PMT ... LOL ...

Nev ... Do I continue to avoid meeting you ? maybe for a reason


PMSL ...

I picked up a 6 ft 6 thruster surfboard from Scarborough last week .... wife still saying I brought it ... needless to say I would never buy a short board again .. considering that the real surfing is on a long board .... YEP Old guys RULE !!

Matt

 

[ledgenko]

Went out on the search last night ... hoping to catch the elusive Power cable cutter in action ... long story short ... put something out electrical (fridge , washing machine, dryer, microwave or anything with a power cable) and this old dude cuts the cable making it useless... It does not matter if your put a sign on it saying it is totally functional... I have even Test and tagged a microwave that was 6 months old .... he still cut the cable ... ******* !!!


Anyway picked u a small can fridge ... works a treat .. not sure how I can use it in brewing so .... I will take a pic tomorrow and load it .. anyone interested ... just PM me ... I also have a pluto gun ... PM me again with an offer ...


Matt

 

[booargy]

if you have a neighbour you don't like get a heap of porn and dump it out the front of their house. or move their rubbish in front of another house.

 

[petesbrew]

I've been driving slowly past the latest batch of shitpiles, looking for another guitar or some old stereo speakers for the backyard.
No luck just yet, but there was a bottle tree across the road.

 

[DU99]

the power cable cutter's are scum of the earth.best thing i have got was a double futon asked the people,my daughter has it at her place

 

[MetalRooster]

Council pickup was the reason I got into brewing. Found a complete starter kit, and I mean complete... all ingredients and equipment. Never been used. Needless to say I threw out the ingredients and bought stuff from the LHBS for the first brew. Most of that equipment is gone now, but I still use the big long plastic spoon

Also scored a BBQ that was in fairly good nick. $100 spent and a good clean later and I had myself a 4 burner.

Not to mention my girlfriend at the time who was off to uni and managed to furnish her house with a lot of stuff. Gott love Sydney's Northen Beaches... a lot of rich people throwing out perfectly good stuff.

 

[sinkas]

So why do people cut off the cords? I thgoguht you only did that if the items was rooted or unsafe, but to drive around doing it, what are the bloody angry RSL members?
The council pickup used to be a bit of fun, and an oppertunity to pick up somethign that you might not have otherwise even realised was available, but these days the gyppos with Porsche Cayanne pulling massive trailier and an army of people with little cb radios, just horrid oppertunism

 

[argon]

Started this thread about this time last year with links to the Brisbane pickup dates.

Kerbside Collection / Council Pickup, Free gear and where it's happening

So far my keg fridge and lager fridge are from kerbside pickup

 

[Liam_snorkel]

Nice one.

Brisbane dates for 2011-2012:

south side
north side

 

[bum]

So why do people cut off the cords? I thgoguht you only did that if the items was rooted or unsafe, but to drive around doing it, what are the bloody angry RSL members?

As far as I can work out they must use them for something. But why so many? And varying lengths and types (2 pin, 3 pin)? Looks way dodgy.

 

[Lachlan]

They cut the power cords to strip the copper out and sell.

 

[Fish13]

they strip them for the copper and get coin for it. they also take brass and stainless steel

 

[komodo]

I helped some bloke take all the metal from my heap last year. Were allowed 2 cubic meters (most people dump a bit more than that too) I probably had near 4 by the time he came and too all the metal and crap I was down to about 1 so I had more room for more crap.
Scrap metal is worth SFA - my time is worth more than the time it takes me to load it into the trailer to take it too work to the scrap bin.

What pisses me off is people illegally dump stuff in the parks and on the side of quiet roads. But I get why they do it. $50 to take a load of green waste that they mulch up and then sell back to people as garden mulch!
Then things like sump oil - no wonder people dump it down drains into water ways - you'd think you had the ******* plague when you try find somewhere to legally dispose of it. Then if you do find somewhere they will only take 5-20L at a time or they want to tear you a new arse hole to get rid of it.
I have about 20 good mother boards down stairs - Im sure there is somewhere they employ disabled/homeless people to recycle components but try find them? Fucked if I know where they are. I hear about them on TV but no one seems to know how to get in contact with them - either that or their interstate or in bum **** no where and it's going to cost you a small fortune to get it to them.
Councils need to take some responsibility for the correct disposal of stuff As far as Im concerned we dont recycle any where near enough stuff.
I heard of a council in victoria that wont allow you to dispose of polystyrene in your rubbish bin - yes your rubbish bin! They will fine you if your caught (and apparently they pay some twat to go around and randomly check bins) What the **** are you supposed to do with it. You buy a new TV and theres more polystyrene packaging than there is TV and your supposed to collect this shit and use it at christmas decorations or some shit!?

But yes council pickups are great. Morninton council doesnt have pickups BUT they do give rate payers tip tickets which is also good. It pisses me off when you stick your stuff out in neat piles and some turd throws it all over the place.
Or better yet frankston council specifies a date that the pick up is to occur but your not allowed to put things out more than 3 days in advance (so if your told its a friday you cant put it out the weekend before...) Then they dont come and collect it for nearly a week and a half later - by which stage people hard rubbish has been picked at by about 20 different groups and light stuff is blown all over the neighbourhood. You end up needing a second pick up to get rid of the shit thats been blown into your front yard.

 

[thelastspud]

Some people just don't get it.
There is one going on in my area right now. The people down the road threw out kitty litter, used kitty litter not in a bag or anything
just scattered around with their other stuff including deodorant cans and sex lube.

 

[bum]

They cut the power cords to strip the copper out and sell.

For real? How could it possibly be worth the petrol money and the hassle of getting rid of all that stripped plastic?

I know copper is worth a bit but I recycled some for work a little while back and you can only do a little bit at a time (because of douche-nuggets like these people, I guess). I don't see how it could be worth the bother.

 

[jlm]

For real? How could it possibly be worth the petrol money and the hassle of getting rid of all that stripped plastic?

I know copper is worth a bit but I recycled some for work a little while back and you can only do a little bit at a time (because of douche-nuggets like these people, I guess). I don't see how it could be worth the bother.

About $6 a kilo stripped or $2 a kilo unstripped, give or take depending what copper is worth at the time. Being a sparky I keep all my scrap, can safely say you'd need the leads of a sheeeetload fridges, washing machines ect. to make it worthwhile. Found out recently the local dump in my new locale is free. They have skips out for various recyclables and a container to put useful shit you no longer want but others may into.