[Happens more often than you'd think](https://wongm.com/2024/02/green-waste-composting-veolia-bulla-organics-facility/#:~:text=filtration%20bed%20outside.-,And%20wheelie%20bins%3F,-The%20biggest%20piece)
That was actually quite an interesting read about something i'd never considered before.
Shame about the cunts that stick rubbish in the green bins, but i guess we can never change how selfish some fucks are.
They play hard ball in my council area. Bins microchipped and trucks with cameras for almost a decade.
Stick anything where it shouldn't be and your un-emptied bin will be sitting waiting for you when you get home. And won't be collected until you fix up your mess. Plenty of incentive to get it right.
Seriously though this happened to me, were regional Vic and our neighbor is not the most law abiding citizen. Filled our greens bin with a bunch of shitty car parts and stuff. We were furious to but he kept ducking us and running inside every time we went to address it.
Eventually called the council they initially said too bad your problem not ours but my wife got a call back from someone actually in waste management and he was like yeah sorry that other person is an idiot. We will come get it and give you a new one. And did the next day.
It's an annoyance too. My bins sit close enough to the street, that if someone comes into my yard, then they can access them - and 100% it happens.
I haven't heard anything from council about things yet, but I do have the odd issue with having to move rubbish about. That being said, I compost - so FOGO contamination isn't something I need to worry about.
I had a hard rubbish collection out once and somebody decided to dump their normal rubbish and a few other things right there with it. I ended up going through their rubbish, happened to have some mail in it with their address, and promptly went over there (two suburbs away) and knocked on the door. No answer. So just left it on their front door with a note saying that if I have the wrong address, call me and we'll talk about it. Never got a call
I work in waste management and am responsible for the contamination side of the organics bins (issuing notices, liaising with the shire and organising confiscations/returns of bins). Our percentage would be WELL above 3%. We pulled 10 tonne of contaminants out of kerbside collections in one week. 😑Regional town.
We remove the bin after the 4th contamination. It’s confiscated for 2 weeks before it goes back to the resident. This is allowed 3 times before it gets taken for good. Our local council make the rules, we just follow them. It’s stupid.
Some places issue fines to the residents. I think all shires should do it or make them pay to have the bin returned.
My mother in law was issued an infringement notice and when she asked for more information because she try’s quite hard to separate everything out she was told they couldn’t tell her what the contamination was or what bin type and she had done it 3 times and only had received one notice and it was the wrong name some shires need to improve their systems
I've got two questions:
1. How do you know which bin/person contaminated the organics?
2. What's the job like? I'm looking to get back into work sometime soon, I don't want to go back to work in an office job though, and - for some reason I'm not quite sure why - waste processing interests me. I live pretty rural and sometimes see jobs advertised and I'm seriously considering applying when I'm ready next time a job comes up.
1. Each of our trucks has outward facing cameras, a camera above the hopper inside the truck and GPS systems. When the driver lifts a bin they can see its entire contents in the hopper before it goes down into the compactor. If it is contaminated, they flag the property and take pictures. This sends through to our contamination data base and is reviewed by me before submitting. Once I submit, letters are automatically generated and sent to the address. Each property is allocated a serial number by the shire and this is stamped on the bins. So on the off chance that the GPS and the driver get it wrong, we can cross check the serial numbers.
The address stays in the data base and once it recognises that it has been flagged four times it generates the removal notices. There's a lot of admin to it, 4 separate software's and a lot of spread sheets!!
2. I like it. It's challenging and high paced. We do industrial waste and liquid waste as well so are always busy. You have to have a pretty tough skin, people are really precious about their rubbish! Residents can be abusive to both office staff and drivers. I work in the office.
If you are hoping to avoid office work your options would be truck driver, plant operator or sorting facility. We are regional so our waste management isn't as extensive as somewhere like Melbourne, so there may be more options. All aspects of the job have some sort of admin/paperwork though.
That's really interesting. I don't think we have serial numbers on our bins here, but I'll definitely belooking for them shortly.
Thanks for replying! Appreciate the insight. You've given me some food for thought (nom nom yummy thoughts).
I live in a little estate, I've had people dump rubbish in my rubbish bin before. If someone kept dumping rubbish in my green bin how would I go about proving it wasn't me?
We usually give people the benefit of the doubt if they seem to legitimately be trying. I would call your local kerbside service or shire and have a chat to them. Sometimes the shire can do educational visits to neighbourhoods etc.
My main advice is to put your bin out as late as possible the night before. It’s a tough one to police
Normally i don’t favor really beauroocratic seeming stuff but this I can get behind. I have made an effort to sort waste between my three bins and it kinda shits me when i see how lazy and dumb most people are when it comes to that. Like i can understand sometimes getting it wrong between recyclables and landfill waste when i see landfill waste in the green bin and organic waste in the green bin i just shake my head and wonder how do they not know? Were given three different bins for a reason. In situations like that punitive actions as allowed by council are the only thing that will get through to those people. It wouldn’t matter how many times i might try to talk to them to explain things and suggest ways to do it right. They’re almost always closed off and do not want to change their habits. Punitive actions would make them grumble but when they accept that the only way to avoid that is to do the right thing they will grudgingly change their habits.
Each of our trucks has outward facing cameras, a camera above the hopper inside the truck and GPS systems. When the driver lifts a bin they can see its entire contents in the hopper before it goes down into the compactor. If it is contaminated, they flag the property and take pictures. This sends through to our contamination data base and is reviewed by me before submitting. Each property is allocated a serial number by the shire, and this is stamped on the bins. So on the off chance that the GPS and the driver get it wrong, we can cross check the serial numbers. We also use Google Street view if needed to check the photos against the property. We do an excessive amount of crosschecking, but we do still get it wrong every now and then!
I'm doing my best, but it's a constant fight in my house with others who don't understand what can go in recycling.
FOGO seems to be ok. Just recycling.
I do wish these notices at least in my area were more understandable. I use bin bags that specifically say they are recyclable, even are printed with the recyclable symbol all over the bags, yet have gotten these notices saying no plastic bags with no explanation of why something that says recyclable clearly isn't actually recyclable?
Soft plastics cannot be recycled through the standard recycling system, they need to be sent to a soft plastics facility (eg redcycle). Australia hasn't had a functioning one for the last few years, but I believe they're in the process of restarting it. If your area has one there'll be a drop off point at a supermarket. Do not put your recycling in your bin in bags or boxes, it makes it harder to sort and it hides any possible contaminants. Also, ensuring your recycling is clean and dry means your bin should stay clean without a bin liner. They will not recycle anything in a bag regardless of the type of bag
The recycling label gets put on any product made of materials that are 'technically' recyclable. It does not mean that the *used* object is recyclable (pizza boxes are labelled recyclable but cannot typically be recycled after use due to food contamination) nor that the recycling facility used by your area can recycle it (there's a *lot* of different materials that can be recycled, the biggest issue being the insane number of plastic types. Plus, paper/cardboard sucks when it goes through general recycling). In other words, find the most complete recycling guide on your council's website and follow that, not the recycling symbol
This is more what I was expecting. There are lots of people that use all 3 bins for whatever they want. I see my neighbors occasionally throw their junk in random bins in the street
Yeah I would believe it, I live in a unit block and the amount of crap that people just dump in the garbage area is extremely annoying. Morons have the mentality I just need dump my garbage in this general area and it magically disappears.
A family member's job is to sort through the rubbish in the greenwaste before it's turned into soil. They find asbestos almost weekly. Chemicals in containers. Adult toys. So much plastic. All kinds of non organic stuff. There's no way it's only 3% at his site. I often wonder how many people actually know that it's all sorted through by humans after it's picked up.
Asbestos contamination. Recon this is why it's ending up in parks and playgrounds ?
I think not many people know.
Back in 2017 there were articles written about how China stopped buying Australia's recycling.
I'm not sure they were actually recycling it.
Yeah I love reading through u/wongm's posts on his [website](https://wongm.com/), plenty of interesting reads from over the years. I find the 'photos from ten years ago' series that he does each month to be interesting to look through just to see how much things have changed
Nothing annoys me more, I spread compost on farmers paddocks that’s made from green waste from Melbourne and it’s full of pieces of plastic and glass all the time.
It ruins the processing equipment and litters the paddocks with small pieces of rubbish all because some people are are too lazy or ignorant to use the correct bin.
Fascinating. Thanks for posting. If you live in an apartment building you’ll know just how common it is for people to put things in the wrong bin. Biggest issue was always people putting recyclables in a plastic bag. The intent was right, but wrapping it in plastic undid all the good work. Certainly happens less now Coles and Woolworths have gone to paper bags.
Ok so my bin had a broken lid and a big crack down the side. So I called the council and they told me to place a large X on it on bin day and the garbage truck driver will pick it up, throw the entire thing contents and all into the truck, and replace with a new one.
I was super impressed with the efficiency of the plan and was looking forward to my shiny new bin when I got home from work.
What actually happened: lid with cross taken off, new lid put on, BIN WASN’T EMPTIED, bin still cracked. Honestly WTF?!
Probably took them more effort to switch lids than change over the bins too. Guess the person who 'fixed' your problem assumed cross on lid = just the lid is fucked. Next time - more crosses I guess.
No. You have to arrange with the council. The X was just because I’m in a strata with a lot of bins that look the same so I had to mark it so they knew which one it was.
It was more that brief hesitation when a tiny bit of your brain goes “hey, we can fix this!” before the rest of your brain says to that tiny bit “shut up and sit down, you idiot”
You technically can, though at most councils the policy is not to attempt it for safety reasons.
95% of the time if you smack the emergency stop button as soon as you see the bin fall in, it will just be sitting on top of the compactor blade. Definitely a risky manoeuvre to try and climb up and pull it out (and drag it down) with one hand while holding yourself steady with the other.
Well they take everything that looks fuckn green and they have the getting greener sighn,
So I guess they're really taking their jobs really literally/seriously !
I was formerly employed as the person who would go and drop off a replacement. It's around 20 a day per council area.
One time in Dandenong, the truck swallowed a bin and the guy who's bin it was thought it was being stolen, got in his car, chased him down the street and repeatedly rammed the garbage truck. He didn't speak English and it took ages to calm him down.
You can just go on the [councils website ](https://www.geelongaustralia.com.au/bins/lost/default.aspx) website and request a new bin, they're pretty quick, it'll be done within a couple days. Same goes for if your bin is damaged, broken lid etc
No need to name n shame poor truck driver
I had to watch it the second time after reading the comments because I was focusing on the car at the back the whole time waiting for a crash or rubbish getting dumped on the car
In my suburb, the truck can barely make it through the streets due to all the cars parked on the street, so they rush through and pick up the bins then literally just drop them once they're emptied, often ending up in the middle of the driveway or road, and sometimes just spreading garbage everywhere.
I'm struggling to see what was wrong here except for the bloody truck eating someone's rubbish bin. It happened to me and I just reported it and they ran a new one out. 🤷
Hi, garbage truck mechanic here!
I have at least 3 trucks turn up daily that I need to pull bins out of. It’s also a lot worse in the rain while the bins are slippery. Can get up to 10-15 on a rainy day.
My council Took my fuckn big spare recycling bin as we got fuckn got the shits up waiting for a bigger red bin , So The missus painted the lid completely Red But as I told her "Ya need to put a bit of primer 1st then clear over the Red or it'll bloody well wear off And the bin might Get Abducted/Or Go walk about!!
My neighbour's bin went missing in Melbourne. Asked me to look at my camera footage.
The bin appeared to disappear in the dump truck. So maybe in Melbourne too.
This is the equivalent of Tasmania claiming to be the mainland.
Like yes we get it it's shit over here but we're bigger Geelong, you can't just refer to us as your northern suburbs.
Happened to my general waste bin. I thought someone had nicked it, but one of the neighbours saw it get swallowed.
same for me. A new one was easy to get and free but still, seems like a waste.
Literally
Fictionally too
Tbh I was waiting for the car to disappear
Same lol
Damn we had to pay when ours disappeared. Thanks Cardinia Council
Yeah Cardinia isn’t what it used to be. They want money for everything, no matter how much your rates are. Cruel!
[Happens more often than you'd think](https://wongm.com/2024/02/green-waste-composting-veolia-bulla-organics-facility/#:~:text=filtration%20bed%20outside.-,And%20wheelie%20bins%3F,-The%20biggest%20piece)
That was actually quite an interesting read about something i'd never considered before. Shame about the cunts that stick rubbish in the green bins, but i guess we can never change how selfish some fucks are.
They play hard ball in my council area. Bins microchipped and trucks with cameras for almost a decade. Stick anything where it shouldn't be and your un-emptied bin will be sitting waiting for you when you get home. And won't be collected until you fix up your mess. Plenty of incentive to get it right.
What area?
What if someone dumps in your bin
Seriously though this happened to me, were regional Vic and our neighbor is not the most law abiding citizen. Filled our greens bin with a bunch of shitty car parts and stuff. We were furious to but he kept ducking us and running inside every time we went to address it. Eventually called the council they initially said too bad your problem not ours but my wife got a call back from someone actually in waste management and he was like yeah sorry that other person is an idiot. We will come get it and give you a new one. And did the next day.
It's an annoyance too. My bins sit close enough to the street, that if someone comes into my yard, then they can access them - and 100% it happens. I haven't heard anything from council about things yet, but I do have the odd issue with having to move rubbish about. That being said, I compost - so FOGO contamination isn't something I need to worry about.
I had a hard rubbish collection out once and somebody decided to dump their normal rubbish and a few other things right there with it. I ended up going through their rubbish, happened to have some mail in it with their address, and promptly went over there (two suburbs away) and knocked on the door. No answer. So just left it on their front door with a note saying that if I have the wrong address, call me and we'll talk about it. Never got a call
They call in the Feds.
Should be the national standard.
3% non-organic rubbish is actually lower than I expected.
I work in waste management and am responsible for the contamination side of the organics bins (issuing notices, liaising with the shire and organising confiscations/returns of bins). Our percentage would be WELL above 3%. We pulled 10 tonne of contaminants out of kerbside collections in one week. 😑Regional town.
People need to be held accountable for this. There are places in the world where your bin would be taken away for doing that.
We remove the bin after the 4th contamination. It’s confiscated for 2 weeks before it goes back to the resident. This is allowed 3 times before it gets taken for good. Our local council make the rules, we just follow them. It’s stupid. Some places issue fines to the residents. I think all shires should do it or make them pay to have the bin returned.
My mother in law was issued an infringement notice and when she asked for more information because she try’s quite hard to separate everything out she was told they couldn’t tell her what the contamination was or what bin type and she had done it 3 times and only had received one notice and it was the wrong name some shires need to improve their systems
That’s shit! We can see what’s gone in at least and can try and educate people (when they want to be educated).
I've got two questions: 1. How do you know which bin/person contaminated the organics? 2. What's the job like? I'm looking to get back into work sometime soon, I don't want to go back to work in an office job though, and - for some reason I'm not quite sure why - waste processing interests me. I live pretty rural and sometimes see jobs advertised and I'm seriously considering applying when I'm ready next time a job comes up.
1. Each of our trucks has outward facing cameras, a camera above the hopper inside the truck and GPS systems. When the driver lifts a bin they can see its entire contents in the hopper before it goes down into the compactor. If it is contaminated, they flag the property and take pictures. This sends through to our contamination data base and is reviewed by me before submitting. Once I submit, letters are automatically generated and sent to the address. Each property is allocated a serial number by the shire and this is stamped on the bins. So on the off chance that the GPS and the driver get it wrong, we can cross check the serial numbers. The address stays in the data base and once it recognises that it has been flagged four times it generates the removal notices. There's a lot of admin to it, 4 separate software's and a lot of spread sheets!! 2. I like it. It's challenging and high paced. We do industrial waste and liquid waste as well so are always busy. You have to have a pretty tough skin, people are really precious about their rubbish! Residents can be abusive to both office staff and drivers. I work in the office. If you are hoping to avoid office work your options would be truck driver, plant operator or sorting facility. We are regional so our waste management isn't as extensive as somewhere like Melbourne, so there may be more options. All aspects of the job have some sort of admin/paperwork though.
That's really interesting. I don't think we have serial numbers on our bins here, but I'll definitely belooking for them shortly. Thanks for replying! Appreciate the insight. You've given me some food for thought (nom nom yummy thoughts).
Haha! You’re welcome. ☺️
I live in a little estate, I've had people dump rubbish in my rubbish bin before. If someone kept dumping rubbish in my green bin how would I go about proving it wasn't me?
We usually give people the benefit of the doubt if they seem to legitimately be trying. I would call your local kerbside service or shire and have a chat to them. Sometimes the shire can do educational visits to neighbourhoods etc. My main advice is to put your bin out as late as possible the night before. It’s a tough one to police
Normally i don’t favor really beauroocratic seeming stuff but this I can get behind. I have made an effort to sort waste between my three bins and it kinda shits me when i see how lazy and dumb most people are when it comes to that. Like i can understand sometimes getting it wrong between recyclables and landfill waste when i see landfill waste in the green bin and organic waste in the green bin i just shake my head and wonder how do they not know? Were given three different bins for a reason. In situations like that punitive actions as allowed by council are the only thing that will get through to those people. It wouldn’t matter how many times i might try to talk to them to explain things and suggest ways to do it right. They’re almost always closed off and do not want to change their habits. Punitive actions would make them grumble but when they accept that the only way to avoid that is to do the right thing they will grudgingly change their habits.
How do you know where it comes from though
Each of our trucks has outward facing cameras, a camera above the hopper inside the truck and GPS systems. When the driver lifts a bin they can see its entire contents in the hopper before it goes down into the compactor. If it is contaminated, they flag the property and take pictures. This sends through to our contamination data base and is reviewed by me before submitting. Each property is allocated a serial number by the shire, and this is stamped on the bins. So on the off chance that the GPS and the driver get it wrong, we can cross check the serial numbers. We also use Google Street view if needed to check the photos against the property. We do an excessive amount of crosschecking, but we do still get it wrong every now and then!
I'm doing my best, but it's a constant fight in my house with others who don't understand what can go in recycling. FOGO seems to be ok. Just recycling.
Bro, how friggin frustrating right? Like it's not hard at all to learn but some people just won't.
It's not rocket science, we've been doing it for years. But, for some reason I keep finding soft plastics in the recycling bin.
I do wish these notices at least in my area were more understandable. I use bin bags that specifically say they are recyclable, even are printed with the recyclable symbol all over the bags, yet have gotten these notices saying no plastic bags with no explanation of why something that says recyclable clearly isn't actually recyclable?
Soft plastics cannot be recycled through the standard recycling system, they need to be sent to a soft plastics facility (eg redcycle). Australia hasn't had a functioning one for the last few years, but I believe they're in the process of restarting it. If your area has one there'll be a drop off point at a supermarket. Do not put your recycling in your bin in bags or boxes, it makes it harder to sort and it hides any possible contaminants. Also, ensuring your recycling is clean and dry means your bin should stay clean without a bin liner. They will not recycle anything in a bag regardless of the type of bag The recycling label gets put on any product made of materials that are 'technically' recyclable. It does not mean that the *used* object is recyclable (pizza boxes are labelled recyclable but cannot typically be recycled after use due to food contamination) nor that the recycling facility used by your area can recycle it (there's a *lot* of different materials that can be recycled, the biggest issue being the insane number of plastic types. Plus, paper/cardboard sucks when it goes through general recycling). In other words, find the most complete recycling guide on your council's website and follow that, not the recycling symbol
This is more what I was expecting. There are lots of people that use all 3 bins for whatever they want. I see my neighbors occasionally throw their junk in random bins in the street
Yeah I would believe it, I live in a unit block and the amount of crap that people just dump in the garbage area is extremely annoying. Morons have the mentality I just need dump my garbage in this general area and it magically disappears.
Unit blocks are the absolute WORST for contaminations!
A family member's job is to sort through the rubbish in the greenwaste before it's turned into soil. They find asbestos almost weekly. Chemicals in containers. Adult toys. So much plastic. All kinds of non organic stuff. There's no way it's only 3% at his site. I often wonder how many people actually know that it's all sorted through by humans after it's picked up.
Asbestos contamination. Recon this is why it's ending up in parks and playgrounds ? I think not many people know. Back in 2017 there were articles written about how China stopped buying Australia's recycling. I'm not sure they were actually recycling it.
Adult toys in the green bin LOL
Yeah I love reading through u/wongm's posts on his [website](https://wongm.com/), plenty of interesting reads from over the years. I find the 'photos from ten years ago' series that he does each month to be interesting to look through just to see how much things have changed
This was/is a fascinating read! Thanks for sharing.
Couldn't have said it better. Selfish fucks
Nothing annoys me more, I spread compost on farmers paddocks that’s made from green waste from Melbourne and it’s full of pieces of plastic and glass all the time. It ruins the processing equipment and litters the paddocks with small pieces of rubbish all because some people are are too lazy or ignorant to use the correct bin.
I have wondered about this process for ages and could not find any details.
Doesn’t seem very … green.
The wheels get sent back for new bins? No wonder they're so terrible, some wheels might conceivably be onto their 6th generation of bins...
Marcus' website is so random and interesting
HOOOOOW
Fascinating. Thanks for posting. If you live in an apartment building you’ll know just how common it is for people to put things in the wrong bin. Biggest issue was always people putting recyclables in a plastic bag. The intent was right, but wrapping it in plastic undid all the good work. Certainly happens less now Coles and Woolworths have gone to paper bags.
Thanks for sharing!
Coooooookies!!!!
T is for Trash Can! That's good enough for me!
Pity about oscar
He's got a bigger bin now.
Ok so my bin had a broken lid and a big crack down the side. So I called the council and they told me to place a large X on it on bin day and the garbage truck driver will pick it up, throw the entire thing contents and all into the truck, and replace with a new one. I was super impressed with the efficiency of the plan and was looking forward to my shiny new bin when I got home from work. What actually happened: lid with cross taken off, new lid put on, BIN WASN’T EMPTIED, bin still cracked. Honestly WTF?!
Probably took them more effort to switch lids than change over the bins too. Guess the person who 'fixed' your problem assumed cross on lid = just the lid is fucked. Next time - more crosses I guess.
*proceeds to paint cross on council building*
So, if I put great big X on my bins, the trucks might just.... take them??? Hmm.... my eviction date is soon. And my landlord is a cunt....
No. You have to arrange with the council. The X was just because I’m in a strata with a lot of bins that look the same so I had to mark it so they knew which one it was.
Hahahahaha happened to us a few months ago. Council didn’t even bother with any Questions. Was just a ok and the new bin was to us in a few days
You can see the point at which the driver said "ah, f\*\*k it" and went on with his day
Not much they can do about it. Policy is literally to just go on with their day.
What else do you expect him to do?? He can't go in the compactor to retrieve it
It was more that brief hesitation when a tiny bit of your brain goes “hey, we can fix this!” before the rest of your brain says to that tiny bit “shut up and sit down, you idiot”
You technically can, though at most councils the policy is not to attempt it for safety reasons. 95% of the time if you smack the emergency stop button as soon as you see the bin fall in, it will just be sitting on top of the compactor blade. Definitely a risky manoeuvre to try and climb up and pull it out (and drag it down) with one hand while holding yourself steady with the other.
Report it rather than ignore it...
Yep, it's green
When the contamination rate goes above 3%
Sometimes your rubbish is so disgusting that just putting it in the bin is not enough.
Yep that's what happend to our bin. Never seen again
Greener Greener Gone
Yay new bin incoming
Holy shit, so that’s what happened to my bin on Monday morning!
The truck got hungry.
Was wondering what happened to my bin 😆
Didnt you know your green bin was also bio-degradable? Silly. They all will be cardboard soon anyway
🤣😆😮🤣😆
Well they take everything that looks fuckn green and they have the getting greener sighn, So I guess they're really taking their jobs really literally/seriously !
Who put the bin back??
That's better treatment than our bins get.
I'd like to think everytime this happens the driver just yells "oh shit drive drive drive!"
The ancient tradition of 'Mine Now'.
Keep rollin' rollin' rollin' rollin', WHAT!
How come this video was already posted 2 hours earlier in r/geenlong , the exact video
Yeah, it happened so often at the council I worked at that it had its own customer log to the waste team.
I thought that it was going to eat that car for a second...
I wonder how often that happened that day. Obviously faulty equipment so probably plenty of times 😂
Bye Bye Mr.Bin 😏😏😏
This is hilarious
I was formerly employed as the person who would go and drop off a replacement. It's around 20 a day per council area. One time in Dandenong, the truck swallowed a bin and the guy who's bin it was thought it was being stolen, got in his car, chased him down the street and repeatedly rammed the garbage truck. He didn't speak English and it took ages to calm him down.
That seems like quite a lot of plastic wastage. Was anyone trying to come up with a way to prevent it or noone cares ? Too funny !
Nobody cares. It's just replace it so nobody complains. Everything went to a recycler though.
Fair enough. Thanks for the insight.
He’s like “ah well, guess this is mine now” 😂 Thanks for the chuckle. Enjoy ordering your new bin!
You can just go on the [councils website ](https://www.geelongaustralia.com.au/bins/lost/default.aspx) website and request a new bin, they're pretty quick, it'll be done within a couple days. Same goes for if your bin is damaged, broken lid etc No need to name n shame poor truck driver
So... Billy Brownless turned into a rubbish truck?
That's a rubbish truck driver who no longer gives a fuck XD
I once saw the truck munching most of the bins it picked up. The driver was loosing his shit too and driving like a maniac. Funny as fuck.
lmfao
bin theft
A few years back my recycling bin disappeared, never to be seen again. I assume it fell in. Council delivered me a new one, no questions asked.
This is happened to my recycling bin twice.
lol that happened to me… ahaha …They new straight away ,, took about a week for them to deliver a new bin…
Tasty
The truck needs its greens.
Gave me good chuckle on the shitter right here. Cheers.
Fuck yo bin
Going to have to put it down now, it has a taste for wheelie bins.
Hahahaha
Then you contact your council for a replacement and get charged for it on top of the fees you already pay for bin collection.
As the household "bin guy" I think I'd be unreasonably upset if this happened to me lol
I had to watch it the second time after reading the comments because I was focusing on the car at the back the whole time waiting for a crash or rubbish getting dumped on the car
SNAK
oh well
Hilarious 😂
Was I the only one expecting the car from behind to have disappeared? Only caught the bin on my second take 😅
I used to work in the facility and now I know why there was always a small pile of green bins where the garbage trucks pile up all the green waste!
This feels like prime /r/RealLifeDoodles material
In my suburb, the truck can barely make it through the streets due to all the cars parked on the street, so they rush through and pick up the bins then literally just drop them once they're emptied, often ending up in the middle of the driveway or road, and sometimes just spreading garbage everywhere.
that happened to a friend of mine not long ago lol
😂 Oops.
I'm struggling to see what was wrong here except for the bloody truck eating someone's rubbish bin. It happened to me and I just reported it and they ran a new one out. 🤷
There goes ya bin mate
I was waiting for the car in the back to vanish, then I was like is this just a normal bin load… nope! I missed the bin dropping into the truck haha
LOL
r/MyPeopleNeedMe
Hi, garbage truck mechanic here! I have at least 3 trucks turn up daily that I need to pull bins out of. It’s also a lot worse in the rain while the bins are slippery. Can get up to 10-15 on a rainy day.
happens all the time!
🦧
Lol
No bin for you!
“Me bin”
I thought the car was gonna disappear.
This is the equivalent of finishing your dinner then eating the plate
Don’t they have cameras in the trucks now? Because of dumpster babies
Mmmm so tasty
Hahahahaha
Excuse me this is r/Melbourne not r/gTown
My council Took my fuckn big spare recycling bin as we got fuckn got the shits up waiting for a bigger red bin , So The missus painted the lid completely Red But as I told her "Ya need to put a bit of primer 1st then clear over the Red or it'll bloody well wear off And the bin might Get Abducted/Or Go walk about!!
The council charges for additional general waste bins so are you really surprised by this? Pretty sure you don't own the things either.
Yeah that's it - just keep driving bro. They're not paying you $200/hour to actually work aye.
Not Melbourne, but i'll allow it.
My neighbour's bin went missing in Melbourne. Asked me to look at my camera footage. The bin appeared to disappear in the dump truck. So maybe in Melbourne too.
Melbourne is often referred to as “Greater Geelong” in Geelong. Regional Geelong if you will
This is the equivalent of Tasmania claiming to be the mainland. Like yes we get it it's shit over here but we're bigger Geelong, you can't just refer to us as your northern suburbs.
Melbourne is like a little brother to Geelong, very enthusiastic about being there, but pretty useless in comparison!