Trailer Trash is generating plenty of talk in Brisbane after NBL star Simon Kerle opened our first depot in Queensland in June 2009. Since then, two new depots have opened, and expansion to Ispwich and the Gold Coast is imminent.
Skip Bin Hire News - October 2010
01/10/2010 - Trailer Trash Perth Booked Out
If you need a skip bin or skip hire this weekend we have very limited availability. In particular the central suburbs of Perth are heavily booked, and don't have availability until Monday.
The suburbs most affected are:
6000 - Perth, 6003 - Highgate, Northbridge, 6004 - East Perth, 6005 - Kings Park, West Perth, 6008 - Shenton Park, Daglish, Subiaco East, Subiaco 6009 - Broadway Nedlands, Crawley, Dalkeith, Nedlands, 6010 - Claremont, Karrakatta, Swanbourne, 6011 - Peppermint Grove, Cottesloe, 6012 - Mosman Park, 6025 - Craigie, Padbury, Hillarys, Kallaroo, 6027 - Connolly, Beldon, Mullaloo, Edgewater, Ocean Reef, Heathridge, Joondalup, 6028 - Burns Beach, Currambine, Iluka, Kinross, 6030 - Clarkson, Mindarie, Ridgewood, Tamala Park, Merriwa, Quinns Rocks, 6058 - Forrestfield, 6059 - Dianella, 6061 - Balga, Mirrabooka, Nollamara, Westminster, 6064 - Koondoola, Marangaroo, Alexander Heights, Girrawheen, 6066 - Ballajura, 6090 - Malaga, 6100 - Victoria Park, Burswood, Lathlain, 6101 - Carlisle, East Victoria Park, Carlisle South, Carlisle North, 6102 - Bentley Dc, St James, Bentley, 6103 - Rivervale, 6104 - Ascot, Redcliffe, Belmont, 6105 - Kewdale, Cloverdale, Perth Airport, 6106 - Welshpool, 6107 - East Cannington, Wattle Grove, Wilson, Cannington, Queens Park, Kenwick, Beckenham, 6108 - Thornlie
6109 - Maddington, Orange Grove
Skip bin availability in the south of Perth is better, but still limited. So if you need a skip bin or rubbish removal this weekend, call us as soon as possible. 1300 887 274.
Source: Trailer Trash Skip Bins
28/09/10 - Charges tip ratepayer over edge
A City of Stirling ratepayer has expressed shock at being charged $33 to dispose of 14kg of waste at the City’s Balcatta recycling centre.
Vince Bertolini said he went to the Balcatta tip last week to recycle a trailer load of unwanted goods and materials.
After taking items to their relevant recycling locations, a tip worker requested he take the remainder over the weighbridge.
Mr Bertolini said that after disposing of the remaining 14kg of waste, the weighbridge attendant told him he would need to pay $33.
He urged other potential private tip users to be aware that this was the minimum charge once over the weighbridge.
“I honestly thought everything I brought was recyclable – I thought that maybe I was being ripped off,” he said.
“I’d like people to be warned about this, that the minimum is $33 for anything up to 300kg.”
Mr Bertolini said he was not a person who liked complaining, but he thought the minimum charge and weight were too high.
“I think I got caught on this one,”he said.
“I would have just taken it home. I wouldn’t be complaining if I had 300kg, but I think people should know so they don’t do the same thing.
“It’s a fair bit of money for some people.”
The minimum charge at Mindarie’s Tamala Park tip is $12 for up to 87kg.
City acting chief executive Ed Herne said that unlike Tamala Park, the City’s minimum charges covered the costs of transporting waste to landfill sites.
“The City operates a pay-by-weight disposal site, where the more that is recycled before going over the weighbridge reduces the end charge,” he said.
Mr Herne said there were fees notices at the weighbridge window and the entrance to the Recycling Centre.
Source: In My Community
11 October 2010 - SMRC aiming to exceed 90% resource recovery
The Southern Metropolitan Regional Council’s (SMRC) strategic plan for diversion of kerbside collected MSW, recyclables and green waste from landfill targets a 95% reduction. At a recent industry conference in WA the organisation’s manager of engineering services, Brendan Doherty, outlined the second wave of technologies and approaches being considered by SMRC to achieve the ultimate landfill diversion.
The first stage of the SMRC’s regional waste strategy which included the development of the Canning Vale Regional Resource Recovery Centre (RRRC) in 2001, is currently achieving 66% recovery of resources processed at the site.
“SMRC research and development projects have identified new technologies and operating approaches that may achieve target landfill diversion rates exceeding 90%,” said Doherty.
These include weekly collection of recyclables, pyrolysis of compost screening residuals and other waste to energy applications such as gasification and production of bio-diesel from depolymerisation of plastics residuals.
The Southern Metropolitan Regional Council (SMRC) is a Regional Local Government established under the Local Government Act 1995. Participants of the SMRC include the City of Fremantle, City of Melville, Town of Kwinana, Town of East Fremantle, City of Cockburn and City of Rockingham.
The RRRC operated by SMRC comprises a MRF for sorting co-mingled recyclables such as paper and cardboard and plastic, glass, steel and aluminium containers; a Green Waste Facility (GWF) for mulching clean green waste collected in bulk from verges and other sources; and a Waste Composting Facility (WCF) for the municipal solid waste (MSW) stream.
With all six member Councils delivering to the RRRC a total of 160,000 tonnes of recyclables, green waste and MSW would be received on an annual basis with 66% of the material diverted from landfill.
“At this intake rate a total of 54,000 tonnes per annum of residual waste would be generated requiring landfill disposal or some other form of further processing and recovery of energy and resources,” said Doherty.
A number of scenarios were modelled by spreadsheet analysis to assess the theoretical maximum landfill diversion rates achievable and the likely landfill diversion rates anticipated in practice.
The models included all kerbside collected waste produced in the SMRC region that would be processed at the RRRC including bulk green waste, recyclables and MSW.
The modelled scenarios were:
a) Current processing (Waste Composting + Recycling + Bulk Green Waste);
b) Current processing & Weekly recycling collections;
c) Current processing & Pyrolysis energy recovery from final compost screens residuals; and
d) Current processing & Weekly recycling collections & Energy recovery from all residuals.
“What the SMRC’s modelling found is that current processing resource recovery rate of 66% performed well against the maximum achievable recovery rate of 72%,” said Doherty.
“Recovery rates of 80% and above could only be achieved with a combination of weekly recycling collections and all residual wastes being processed by a waste to energy facility”.
The likely recovery rate of 69% for the weekly recycling scenario was based on the results of SMRC trials, predicting a 40% increase of recyclables in the recycling stream in practice.
The maximum recovery rate for weekly recycling required a 70% increase in recyclables in the recycling stream or an additional 28,000 tonnes of recyclables moving out of the MSW stream into the recycling stream.
“There is not enough capacity in the existing 240 litre fortnightly recycling collections to accommodate the yield of recyclables in the overall waste stream,” said Doherty.
The larger gap between the likely and maximum recovery rates for weekly recycling was due to paper and cardboard in the waste bin being recovered as compost in the current processing system.
“Although weekly recycling did not produce the highest recovery rates consideration also needs to be given to the income potential of the recovered recyclables,” said Doherty, “net cost per recovered tonne and the established nature of the technology and markets when comparing to the waste to energy scenarios”.
In conjunction with waste to energy facilities Maximum recovery rates exceeding the SMRC target of 95% could be achieved by broadening the markets and alternative disposal opportunities for residual wastes such as:
. textiles, clothing and household junk;
. general mixed and thin film plastics (other than containers);
. inert wastes such as concrete, masonry and sand etc; and
. char and bottom ash from waste to energy processes.
Glass represented 10% of the overall waste stream and the stated recovery rates are therefore highly dependent on markets being available for all mixed glass in Perth.
“The adoption of a strategy is recommended to establish small scale waste to energy facilities for specific residual waste streams to prove the technology locally and gain community understanding and confidence,” said Doherty.
He said further work is recommended to include assessment of carbon, community and cost aspects of the scenarios modelled.
source: Inside Waste Weekly
News: 28 September 10 - Charges tip ratepayer over edge
A City of Stirling ratepayer has expressed shock at being charged $33 to dispose of 14kg of waste at the City’s Balcatta recycling centre.
Vince Bertolini said he went to the Balcatta tip last week to recycle a trailer load of unwanted goods and materials.
After taking items to their relevant recycling locations, a tip worker requested he take the remainder over the weighbridge.
Mr Bertolini said that after disposing of the remaining 14kg of waste, the weighbridge attendant told him he would need to pay $33.
He urged other potential private tip users to be aware that this was the minimum charge once over the weighbridge.
“I honestly thought everything I brought was recyclable – I thought that maybe I was being ripped off,” he said.
“I’d like people to be warned about this, that the minimum is $33 for anything up to 300kg.”
Mr Bertolini said he was not a person who liked complaining, but he thought the minimum charge and weight were too high.
“I think I got caught on this one,”he said.
“I would have just taken it home. I wouldn’t be complaining if I had 300kg, but I think people should know so they don’t do the same thing.
“It’s a fair bit of money for some people.”
The minimum charge at Mindarie’s Tamala Park tip is $12 for up to 87kg.
City acting chief executive Ed Herne said that unlike Tamala Park, the City’s minimum charges covered the costs of transporting waste to landfill sites.
“The City operates a pay-by-weight disposal site, where the more that is recycled before going over the weighbridge reduces the end charge,” he said.
Mr Herne said there were fees notices at the weighbridge window and the entrance to the Recycling Centre.
source: www.inmycommunity.com.au
5 November 2010: Trailer Trash Perth Booked Out
Trailer Trash Perth is booked out for the weekend beginning Saturday November 6 2010. The following local government areas are affected, and will not be able to receive orders until Monday November 8:
City of Armadale, Town of Bassendean, City of Bayswater, City of Belmont, Town of Cambridge, City of Canning, Town of Claremont, City of Cockburn, Town of Cottesloe, Town of East Fremantle, City of Fremantle, City of Gosnells, City of Joondalup, Shire of Kalamunda,Town of Kwinana, City of Melville, Town of Mosman Park, Shire of Mundaring, City of Nedlands, Shire of Peppermint Grove, City of Perth, City of Rockingham, Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale, City of South Perth, City of Stirling, City of Subiaco, Town of Victoria Park, Town of Vincent, City of Wanneroo.
Trailer Trash Perth is heavily booked during summer, so if you require a skip bin or skip hire then make sure you book early. To guarantee a skip bin or rubbish removal, it is best to give us three days notice for bookings on the weekend.
source: Trailer Trash
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