Christmas and the rest of the festive season bring out the best in most of us.
Our generosity of spirit is in full bloom leading into Christmas and until we return to work sometime in January or February.
We exchange gifts, we have each other over for a barbie on sunny afternoons and we generally try to love each other a bit more than usual at this time of the year.
Unfortunately, we also do a lot of rubbish dumping by the side of the road at this time of the year.
What with gifts of new plasma TVs and other electronic gear, new indoor and outdoor furniture, it’s in with the new and dump the old in front of someone else’s place. Plus the gift wrapping and the cardboard box the new TV came in. Dump it all.
These people never stop to think that maybe if they took the time most of this rubbish is recyclable and could simply fill their yellow bin for the 3-4 pickups.
But this requires work, like cutting big pieces into little ones that will fit into the bin.
Oh, my God. Work, that four letter word.
I could go on being negative till the cows come home.
But no, because you know what: the surprising thing about this issue is not really that there seems to be so much rubbish dumping going on.
[social_quote duplicate=”no” align=”default”]No, the real surprise is that so few people are too lazy to properly dispose of their own garbage and just put it in a trailer or the boot and go for a drive to the nearest bushland bit in their suburb.[/social_quote]
The rest of us, 90-95 per cent, give or take, do the right thing.
Sometimes I wonder whether the people who do it realise they are a tiny minority and, hopefully, maybe start to feel guilty and decide to pull their heads in.
I won’t hold my breath.
Here’s Georges River Rd at Kentlyn last week. Disgusting. Council offers 4 free pickups per year! https://t.co/mDGxFvCcuC
Maybe you could make people aware to use their kerbside collections for mattresses, metal and whitegoods, and general household furniture and broken items. Or how about the Recycling Depot anyone can use at 99 Rose St, Liverpool. Mon-Sat 8.30am-3pm. They take all the cardboard you can handle, polystyrene foam, gas bottles, household quantities of paint tins, motor oils, tv’s, computer consumables, and x-rays!! Just ring Liverpool Council if you need further info. Quit dumping. All new development applications are now charged a compliance levy fee to put towards the enforcement of this and other issues. Neighbours are dobbing, rangers are investigating, council is fining. It’s not worth it to be lazy. Rant over.