Exclusive: Council’s trucks have mixed recycling with rubbish for ‘more than a decade’ | JordsBaker
Residents of Sydney’s south-west are furious after catching rubbish collectors mixing yellow-bin recycling with red-bin garbage, a practice the council said had gone on for more than a decade and was due to the difficulty of backing trucks down narrow streets.
Coyle said the practice continued for a few weeks, then stopped. She said the council should have told residents if it could not empty red and yellow bins separately rather than leaving them thinking their household efforts were contributing to a cleaner environment. “Why am I separating my recycling from my general waste when [the collectors] come along and mix it all up again?” she asked.The post prompted many responses from residents who said the same thing had happened to them. “This morning I watched them empty the garbage bin by hand and drop the rubbish into the recycle bin, and then manually lift the recycle bin and load the contents into the truck,” said one.
Canterbury-Bankstown runs its own waste service, having brought it in-house about 18 months ago. He said the former Canterbury council ran a similar service but residents did not notice because they were asleep when the trucks came.However, other councils that deal with narrow streets said they did not have the same problem with truck size. “Our streets can fit our trucks including our recycling trucks,” said a spokeswoman for Waverley Council.
“What we really want is for people to have confidence that the effort they make to sort their rubbish is going to be rewarded by delivering strong recycling outcomes.“This runs absolutely counter to the effort we’re trying to make across the country in creating those systems in running kerbside recycling.”
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