Maitland Recycling (SCRAP System)

For this machine, I'll use the exact same words I used for the Blue Mountains truck... it's massive, has a great sound to the engine and looks awesome! On Tuesday 16th, December 2008 I took a bus and three trains to the Hunter Valley, found 160km (100 mile) way up north of Sydney. I jumped off at a suburb called Thornton, which is found under Maitland City Council.

A company called Hunter Resource Recovery (HRR) manages the recycling service within a particular area of the Hunter Region, comprising of Lake Macquarie, Cessnock and Maitland councils. Each council has the same recycling system, involving a fortnightly collected, east-west split 240L which has been in operation since 1997. The contractor for the region's recycling collection is Solo Resource Recovery, another Richards company.

The type of truck that collects the bins in the three councils is known as the SCRAP (Simultaneous Collection of Recyclables & Paper) System, one of Solo's three unique split collection trucks. The 5-week-old truck in this video reflects Solo's 4th split-body design, adding to the 3 previous models. These three councils are the only ones that use the SCRAP System in Australia.

This type of truck's operation is pretty straight-forward: the bin sits on the teeth of the lifter, a jet stream of water flips the lid open, then the bin is raised where the truck and bin dividers meet perfectly. The bottles fall into the street-side compartment (back section of bin) and the papers into the kerbside compartment (front section of bin). With the new bodies, a large specially designed paddle packer clears both compartments.

I really hope you guys enjoy the footage of this rare truck and collection system - I certainly did being the first time I got to see this in person. All ratings and comments would be fantastic! Then of course a big thanks goes to the driver, a very friendly and helpful bloke.

Body Make: Jaysolo Compactor (Solo RR Model)
Model: SCRAP System
Chassis: Iveco Acco
Council: Maitland City
Contractor: Solo Resource Recovery
Collection Type: Bottles & Paper Recycling

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[whatwouldmattdo]

Mitchell; do the trucks round maitland still sort the recycling by paper/plastic? I know they used to, but I've heard a lot of people have the dividers ripped out believing it doesn't make a difference.

[MitchellM15]

Yep they still sort everything at the moment; don't see why they'd still be using divided trucks if they mix it up in the end. I remember when I took these videos that there were some bins without dividers, stupid residents.

[Ronnierecycle]

I was told by someone that there were JJ Richards in port stephens can anyone try geting a JJR ?

[MitchellM15]

JJ Richards doesn't operate in Port Stephens, maybe that someone was referring to JR Richards which still doesn't operate there, but does nearby.

[Sean12325]

Isn't JJ richards and JR richards the same thing??

[MitchellM15]

Yes they are basically the same, just different company names and in different areas.

[waynemradams]

Awesome water squirter

[labrieexpert2000]

this truck look heavy

[GayBoyRunning]

its no water as there spuirting a cleanning chemical that is to not only open the lids but also to leave the bins to smell nicer.

[sean1995newy]

i just moved to maitland council.... when we moved in the bin had no divider.... rang solo and we got a new sulo bin... it is way different now the divider is really thin and is held in with pop rivets.... pretty weird.

[dodgerfan2004]

crazy way of flipping lids

[sean1995newy]

the dividers fall out pretty easily, at my aunties it fell out and they gave her a whole new bin.. im moving to this oncil next week :D

[Binboy112]

good vid this truck is pretty cool with that water squirt good job it is like the sunny coast when they had split syestem but dident hav the squirt BINBOY112

[TheOTTO2732]

cool how a water jet opens the cart lid!

[aussiegarbo55]

@Sean12325 The reason why the lid gets sprayed open is because it can then get the bottle and paper compartment in each compartment

[aussiegarbo55]

I used to have those JJ Richard Trucks at our council before which had those spray lid open things you call and have a split between them. One for Garbage and one for Recycling