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Brisbane to get free green bins, but 'FOGO a no-go' (www.abc.net.au)

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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh damn, half the size and half the frequency really seems like overkill. What do they possibly save by also doing half the size, considering homes presumably already have the older, larger bins?

Anyway, the green bins this is talking about would still be good for suburban gardens. But that's all they're for. Grass cuttings and tree clippings and the like. But FOGO is that plus food waste. Leftovers that didn't get eaten. The butts and peelings of vegetables. Bones and fatty off-cuts of meat. Etc. Nearly every household can use a lot of that stuff.

[–] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The council removed the everyone's old larger general waste wheely bins when they rolled the new system out. Old system was 1 large general waste collected weekly. 1 large recycle bin collected fortnightly.

Now we have 1 half size waste bin collected fortnightly. Same recycle bin collected fortnightly. Large FOGO bin collected weekly. Unless I've done gardening there is usually only a tiny volume of food scraps in mine.

Part of the intent is to encourage everyone to produce less waste by making it harder to get rid of. The other is of course to get the methane generating FOGO separated so it does not end up in landfill.

Oh and the council saves money on disposal by having this system in place. Savings were not directly passed on to rate payer's though. I guess they are indirectly via not raising annual rates by as much.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

The council removed the everyone’s old larger general waste wheely bins when they rolled the new system out. Old system was 1 large general waste collected weekly. 1 large recycle bin collected fortnightly.

This is what I just don't understand. If everyone already had 1 large redtop bin, why not just keep the large redtops and reduce the frequency of collection to fortnightly? It seems like a big extra cost for the council to replace all those perfectly good bins with new smaller ones.

Part of the intent is to encourage everyone to produce less waste by making it harder to get rid of

I guess that makes sense. Maybe eventually it could even be a good goal achieved in that way. I still think it would've been smarter to keep the same bin size while reducing frequency...at least at first.

Oh and the council saves money on disposal by having this system in place

How, exactly? If they'd kept the same bin size it would have saved a heap, but adding in the cost of buying all the new bins doesn't sound like a smart decision financially.