Blue Mountains City Council: MJ Refuse ASL

[tharealsteven]

tha first mgb emptied looked like a 1996 or a 1986 OTTO, then the rest of the bins are SULO

[macdonaldjohnstonfan]

Yep, the new bins that the BM City Services are getting are all SULO's.

[sean1995newy]

it is a 1987 otto

[tharealsteven]

it's 86

[sean1995newy]

do u have 1<<

[tharealsteven]

nope

[T4799]

Why did he pick up the red lidded bin? That isn't a council bin.

[macdonaldjohnstonfan]

They are replacing the old, broken bins with the new red lidded ones.

[T4799]

They look smaller too.

[macdonaldjohnstonfan]

Yeah, they are about 120L.

[MitchellM15]

They're 140L's by the looks of them!

[macdonaldjohnstonfan]

Yeah, got mixed up but I think that they are to small for some households especially if you make a lot of rubbish.

[MitchellM15]

That's true! The majority of the time if there's a council with a sufficient recycling and organics service the garbage bin can be 80-120L... if there isn't a sufficient organics and sometimes a recycling collection, then 240L bins are inevitable! Though as you said all results in how much waste a household produces each week + the council!

[MitchellM15]

If you look at Ku-Ring-Gai they have a weekly collected 120L garbage bin, a fortnightly collected '360L' greens bin, a fortnightly collected 'containers' bin and a fortnightly collected 'papers' bin!!!! In other words if they had a fortnightly collected co-mingled recycling bin, they'd need a bin larger than 360L! That's what you call large refuse producers, they're actually the largest council that produces waste paper in Sydney!

[macdonaldjohnstonfan]

Yeah, I lived in Boroondara City Council in Melbourne for 6 years. In that time I've seen the MJE JP5 in service, then the MJE Mk ASL's replaced them, then they got the new MJE Mk IV ASL, and now they have the MJE Commingled Recycling ASL's which replaced the Recycling carts with bins. But also they are now wanting you to change your bin to a 120L or even an 80L bin!!! It just doesn't work for household's with a lot of rubbish!

[macdonaldjohnstonfan]

Sorry, when I said carts, I meant 'recycling crates'!

[MitchellM15]

mmmmm... well a ttrue fact is that all households can live with a 120/140/80L MGB for garbage! Though it usually only works if there's a reliable organics and recycling service!! Take the '3-bin-system'! For example if Brisbane got a 240L fortnightly collected greens bin where you can also dipose of food scraps... all you'll need is a 120/140L MGB! Half of the contents of the household waste bin is organics!

[macdonaldjohnstonfan]

Yeah, true, but you really have to live in Brisbane to realise, that we do need 240L bins in some ways. We can get rid of garbage that has to be taken to the dump or wait till the council clean up, because the 240L bin is able to do that.

[macdonaldjohnstonfan]

My family needs a 240L bin, we have a garden waste bale, collected by a private company, we recycle all the right stuff, and no rubbish goes into the recycling bin. But we still need a 240L bin, for some people a small bin will do, but it doesn't work for everyone.

[MitchellM15]

Here we go!!! Very smooth ops!!

[macdonaldjohnstonfan]

Yeah, shame it wasn't clearer, because he had the brakes on and skidded down the hill!

[MitchellM15]

Looks like you had some wet weather down there! HAHA!! Was there any sunshine! LOL!!

[macdonaldjohnstonfan]

We did get some sunshine, but while it was sunny it was also very windy.