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I've got a bunch of plastic garbage bags filled with paper plates, coles bags, scraps, and used drink bottles. Picnic type stuff. All mixed, no idea what is in what bag.
90% recyclable though I think. Too much to fit in the weekly bin. I plan to load the trailer or boot up and head to the dump. How's it all generally work? Do I drive to the gate, pay an entry fee, then drive to some allocated area and throw the trash onto a pile myself? What's the go there? Last edited by HONK; 09-09-2022 at 09:52 AM. |
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The website is the most confusing website i've ever seen.
IT says a bootload of 'mixed waste' is $18 or whatnot, but doesn't say what mixed waste is... Then has a list of 50+ things they accept such as rims, fridges, tables... Things for free, things not, blablabla.. Things they don't accept, and so on. It has no mention of if they specifically take "household general garbage". I assume they would, but the whole thing is just confusing af. I don't have a proper trash service here in the country so need to take my own for the meantime to the dump you see... I'm looking at the Melton Victoria tip mainly as that's really the only one I know of within an hour of driving without a quick google. Last edited by HONK; 09-09-2022 at 10:06 AM. Reason: Note: You can go to 'any' dump and dump stuff. Wouldn't all work in very similar ways? |
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Yeah that's confusing alright, perhaps mixed waste is..................... well, mixed?
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At least try and separate your recycling. Hard plastics from soft.
But I'm guessing it's all got food scraps mixed in if it's picnic stuff. Then unfortunately it will be mixed waste going into land fill. I take all my soft plastic back to Coles about every fortnight, separate my 10 cent containers for a local charity, hard clean plastic in recycle bin. But I know if you're in the country it's a bit harder, they usually don't do recycling.
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They won't accept recycle-able stuff in plastic bags though. If it rubbish, they will charge around $20-$28 per cubic metre.
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Then if you read in further detail, it says what mixed waste is - and no mention of residual household food scraps, recycling, etc, etc. It's implying that it is cement, and all this other bs I think... There are three stations for various things. Idk, never been, hence this thread. Anyway, what's the go? Drive in and throw the bags into a field of trash? Or drive in to building and manually empty/sort **** into bins myself? No idea. I'd like to just drive in, throw garbage somewhere, and then gtfo as fast as possible. Just after a rundown from somebody who knows what they are talking about really. |
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Does this help from their website......
FREE recycling items that are accepted at the Transfer Station for City of Melton Residents include: Drum Muster Approved Drums Whitegoods Steel or Solar Panels Mobile Phones E-waste Fluorescent Tubes Car & household batteries Cardboard and paper (excludes magazines) Co-mingled Recycling Gas bottles (up to 9kg) Motor Oil (max 10L containers, up to 50L) Cooking Oil (max 25L containers, up to 50L) Paint (max 100L no larger than 20L containers) Please note that charges apply for some items for people who do not live in the City of Melton including fridges and air conditioners, E-waste items & gas bottles
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Thanks for that, pretty much what I needed to hear. So the black garbage bags I have are filled with 3-4 coles bags each containing used paper plates, plastic bottles, etc. Will they accept this for landfill? or would I have to burn it, etc. I'm having issues with the clown at JJRichards with his overcharging and price rising BS so had the service stopped apparently, did have a 240L bin that worked ok, but was way too expensive. Finding new solution now, the dump was first thought. Last edited by HONK; 09-09-2022 at 10:32 AM. |
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Not really... Coz as ya said in the last post "they won't accept crap in plastic bags" or what not... Hrmm... I just need to know if they'd take my black plastic bags filled with crap (90% recyclable, but they wont recycle it as it's in coles bags, and inside of black plastic garbage bags is the claim). I mean, I'll know when I call or go there, but as they say ~ Never let a phone call get in the way of a good yarn. |
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There will often be a category of “household garbage” or “putrescible matter”. As it goes straight to landfill, its rates are high.
Recyclables are often free or low cost on the mainland east coast - even in rural areas. As the catchphrase was, “Sort and Save”… |
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If you don't want to cut them open, they are household garbage and you will pay for it.
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Here's a related link regarding JJRichards and bogus price rises/contract terms. Since I signed with them they changed price without consent 4-5 times (within 2 years). Service started at 18 bucks a pickup then ended at $30. Apparently they do this to a lot of people and the ACCC ruled their contract terms unfair, and void. Watch out! |
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So it depends on who runs the tip. Pretty sure most councils privatised them a long time ago. Last tip run i did for domestic waste it was minimum charge $60 and 360 per tonne. So they weigh your car on the way in, give you a slip, weigh you on the way out and charge accordingly. Recycling is free, dunno how they guage that with a mixed load.
A regular domestic tip where the council garbos go wont take building material. At my old work i did a lot of tip runs with building materials and had to go to a bingo place where theyd take the skip bins. That was more expensive, but i wasnt paying. Hot tip. Do not do a tip run when its raining or the day or 2 after rain. The tip doesnt smell pleasant when its dry, even the indoor ones. When it gets muddy, its even more unpleasant. |
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Not in the country.
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ffs your out in the sticks.
load it all out in back paddock, throw tree pruning, shed rubbish, the neighbours dead cat, pour kerosene over the lot not petrol, strike a match and watch the BBQ
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To be fair, he has plastics so burning could get quite nasty.
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In my council you get 2 free council cleanups per year. You have to call them in. Theres the rules of what you can and cannot put out and its x square meters of stuff. For chemicals and paint etc, twice a year the council has a drop off day to take them to and dispose of. So in that regard the council isnt too bad. |
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yeah so you should see what gets burnt around this area late at night.
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At those prices I'd be sorting the crap out and putting it slowly through your normal bins, then its free.
If you don't sort it and get the recyclables out you'll be paying through the nose. Last time I took a high sided 6 x 4 trailer load to Werribee tip it was $90 and the same at Sunshine tip was $110. That was at least 10 years ago now. You'd think when your getting ****ed that hard you'd at least get a reach around included, but nope. Not in this case. Seems its only gotten tons more expensive. I remember going to the Sunshine tip and the bloke next to me had a caged 6 x 4 full of metals he was tossing into the pit. He actually paid a hefty sum to dump recycling and they just picked it up and put it in the metals bin. I did the right thing after he was done and told him he could have taken it to a metal recycler and they would have paid him for it. Probably $150 to $200 worth. Insanely lucky here. We have a gated 6 x 4 trailer, capacity is about 2.6m3. Green waste is entirely free. General waste is $40 these days, used to be $15 a couple of years back, at the capacity of the trailer. |
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