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Originally Posted by Kpt. Munson
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Originally Posted by bookworm_020
My council here in Australia has the three wheelie bin system, A 120 litre gereral waste bin thats collected every week, and two 240 bins, one for recycing and the other garden waste, whic are collected every two weeks (one this week, the other the next)
The truck are all automated, so they only need the driver (that reduces costs) and less chance of spillage.
This system has also lead to an increase in recycling, which also keeps waste costs down as there is less need for landfill sites.
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Sounds like an ideal world but I have a couple of questions over this...
1. what happened to the loaders, unemployed ?
2. what happens if the 'customer' puts the bin in the wrong place so the machine cannot reach it etc., is the bin missed ? |
The loaders were retrained as drivers as more truck were used, some of them moved into maintaince of gardens and buildings, as well as emptying the rubbish bins that the council provided for the public (there not wheelie bins)
People have to put bin faceing the roadway not more than one metre from the edge and a metre apart from each other. The loader can reach futher than that but rarely needs to.
Bins can be skipped if they are overloaded, or if they caught with wrongly soughted bins (garden waste ing the recycling). If caught they have a sticker placed on them and will not be collected untill it has be cleared by council inspectors