Pollyana

Brisbane City Council offers free kerbside green waste and kerbside general items collections for residents to help you to clean up around your home and garden.

During the 2010/2011 financial year, northside residents will receive a green waste service and all of Brisbane's residents will receive a general items service.

For those new to this, it basically means that people drag their old junk out to the roadside where it festers and rots and blocks the pavement until the council get round to removing it - or until someone spots something they can use and takes it home!

http://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/BCC:BASE:c=PC_1761

(I love the way the smilie appears in the middle of the URL)

>Trigger<

Thanks..now all us Redlanders ( we have to pay!!) can go street dumping

Pollyana

brissyb

Pay for it, noo, just put it out it'll soon get pinched

tartankoala

Hasn't Brisbane offered this service before? I thought it was fairly common throughout the country, certainly is in Sydney.

I picked up an oil filled radiator one night whilst walking home (yes I was pissed!), only thing wrong with it was that it was missing a wheel! And when I didn't want it any more I put it back out to the street and someone swiped it before the council!

Pollyana

Yeah, they do it here every year. I was really aiming "new to this" at people new to the country who might wonder why all of a sudden the roads look like travellers sites. It may well be common throughout the world but I'd never come across it before I got here. Just trying to be helpful (for a change )

tartankoala

Every year? It's almost every 2 weeks around here! But yes, the roads look like a cross between the Salvos and a tip.