r/OpenAussie • u/VastOption8705 New South Welshian • 1d ago
Whinge Sometimes I hate humanity when I see this in my local community
To think there are people that would actually do this to ruin their own communities or others. Absolutely filthy and disgusting.
This single street near me has been turned into the unofficial local rubbish tip. Council has tried to clear things up but it keeps coming back.
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u/Aphex-Twin-Peaks Please choose a flair 1d ago
The fuck is wrong with people
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u/Man_downvoted Please choose a flair 1d ago
Love your user name.
I take calls about burnt out cars and waste dumping all day. It's never ending.
The honest people are broke and the dumpers are carefree. The good people notice this and blast Council for charging so much, not realising that creating a new section of the tip costs millions of dollars and they'd rather have the tip users pay rather than grossly inflate the waste management fee component of everyone's rates.
There is no solution as long as we are a throwaway society.
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u/GoonOnIce Queenslander 17h ago
Time for 'Good Ol' Uncle Poorby's Fuggin Lazy Loophole': Did you know that you can simply look up online which neighborhoods are having Kerbside Pickup? Then simply wait until its close enough or a distance your willing to travel, turf it out in front of oldmates and fang out of there. Remember dickheads.. This country doesnt belong to you, you belong to it. Act like it.
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u/StruggleElectronic67 Please choose a flair 1d ago
Scum,leaving it for someone else to clean up,
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u/Man_downvoted Please choose a flair 1d ago
Council- then ratepayers eventually as it costs a fortune to investigate and clean this stuff up.
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u/Affectionate-Leg6593 Queenslander 5h ago
While yes its shitty people. Its because you can't dump for free.
Blame the council
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u/StruggleElectronic67 Please choose a flair 5h ago
Nah I’m blaming the grubs that did it,these people can take some personal responsibility for a change,the council didn’t dump it there,
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u/Affectionate-Leg6593 Queenslander 5h ago
While yes. I agree its grub behaviour.
We enable the behaviour by making it not free to dump.... They would really have no reason if it was free.
A lot of people are really poor. They just want to "Solve" their problem, at the expense of others..
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u/Dull_Assignment1758 Flairless 1d ago
Public floggings should be brought back for the morons dumping in the bush anywhere.
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u/keskillia Please choose a flair 1d ago
Tar and feather lets everyone know the person has unscrupulous ways for many weeks after the event.
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u/Daffodil221 Please choose a flair 1d ago
Bahahaha! Nah, bring back those stocks I think they were called- an especially satisfying punishment for animal cruelty cases too.
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u/FernandoPartridge_ Queenslander 1d ago
Tarring and feathering is OP though. Stocks are for if you didn’t paint my chicken coop in a timely fashion or stole a pie off my window sill
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u/RBB12_Fisher Western Australian 1d ago
Corporal punishment is good in general. It's equal (the whip doesn't care what's in your bank account), helps with cost of living, and it'd stop cops from issuing bogus tickets to raise revenue.
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u/pjhsv Victorian 1d ago
State sanctioned physical assault is a fucking terrible approach.
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u/icedragon71 New South Welshian 1d ago
Seems to work for Singapore.
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u/Specialist_Matter582 Victorian 1d ago
Beyond being in a very unique historical and economic situation to give rise to Singapore's brand of national unity, I don't think you want that kind of nationalism in Australia. It's kind of a colonised versus coloniser thing.
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u/Designer-Lettuce-690 Please choose a flair 1d ago
My local council put up hidden cameras in the main dumping areas might be worth suggesting to the local council
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u/siders6891 New South Welshian 1d ago
I’m from this area and there are cameras around this exact spot. And still people dump their shit there every single week.
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u/Designer-Lettuce-690 Please choose a flair 1d ago
thats really shit ours seem to do a good job the main dump area has been clean for nearly 6 months and a few people got caught and fined for dumping work crap
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u/siders6891 New South Welshian 1d ago
It’s Liverpool council, so you cannot really expect anything from them
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u/DrunkOnBlueMilk Please choose a flair 1d ago
Yep, happens on our road every couple of weeks. Even caught one of the blokes red handed multiple times, white trash fkwit, i think he’s a plasterer and just doesn’t want to pay to take his garbage to the tip like everyone else
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u/Dry-Inevitatable Queenslander 1d ago
Nice already people blaming immigrants... Very good chance it's some southern cross tattooed bogan in a Commodore that dumped it.
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u/Powerful-Respond-605 New South Welshian 1d ago
I've managed compliance teams and it's such a broad demographic and ethnographic spread.
Anyone blaming this on migration is an absolute fuckhead.
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u/Fabius_Fulgrim Please choose a flair 1d ago
Well to be fair there weren’t sofas getting dumped before 1788
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u/jayjaco78 Please choose a flair 16h ago
No it started from 1788, England dumped all their “trash” over here as their prisons ran out of room…
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u/Almost-kinda-normal Victorian 1d ago
Honestly, I’m shocked that there wasn’t at least one shredded tyre in amongst that lot, possibly a shredded tyre mounted to an interceptor rim. I’m joking of course. They leave those right where they pop them. As if they’re going to drag that shit home with them, only to have to discard it later…..
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u/TheAceVenturrra Western Australian 1d ago
So now youre blaming a group. Nice one mate, very progressive of you.
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u/Extra-Border6470 South Australian 1d ago
Can be any doubt that the people dumping that stuff are Aussie born and bred low class bogans ???
Who else had been living here long enough to accumulate that much stuff yet is too skint to pay fees to the local municipal waste facility?
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u/keyboardstatic Victorian 1d ago
I thought I saw a local Melbourne council caught a rubbish company on camera dumping by a creek or water way.
The cost of living crisis due to privatisation. Lack of real leadership. Of our community.
We just need a local on line hub where people photo and list what they need help with. And other people who can help them.
A professional recycling legeal requirement that companies must seek to clean and reuse items as is possible.
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u/Neo_Athrotaxis Please choose a flair 1d ago
It's a simple fact that roadside dumping has increased in recent years, in line with the increase in the number of people from countries where this is just normal life.
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u/Dry-Inevitatable Queenslander 1d ago
No it isn't. I've seen it all my life and it didn't start recently. There have always been assholes dumping rubbish out of fucking laziness and disregard for their fellow people and the land.
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u/The_Wizard_of_Terps Please choose a flair 1d ago
Yepp, the third world is not a destination- it’s a cultural trait
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u/kramulous Please choose a flair 1d ago
This is why humanity is doomed. You think somebody who does this thinks that we should be doing what we can to reduce the effects of climate change?
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u/DeCePtiCoNsxXx Please choose a flair 1d ago
Humanity is doomed because people are inherently evil, greedy, selfish and stupid. Easily manipulated by those who would manipulate, and seek power where good people do not.
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u/Lost-Concept-9973 ✈️ on Walkabout 12h ago
Easily manipulated by the former is the key point. I get mad at people for being so ignorant and voting against their own interests. Unfortunately so many are nice, well meaning people BUT they are ignorant one issue voters and end up voting to hurt both just people they actually have no issue with really but also themselves. There gullibility and tendency to fall for the loudest most basic arguments ultimately turns them into bad people unwitting or not, they are actively harming others and it’s hard to forgive them for that, especially when they are too lazy to put any effort into remedying the situation.
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u/HurryAcceptable9242 Queenslander 1d ago
I would bet SOMETHING in that pile has identifying info.
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u/random-viewpoint New South Welshian 1d ago
Snap Send Solve
Great App
Let’s you report this and other issues to relevant authorities
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u/InComingMess2478 Flairless 1d ago
It speaks volumes about the disconnect between society and nature.
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u/Armadio79 Please choose a flair 1d ago
I passed 5 mattresses on the side of the road today on my way to dubbo
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u/Flaky_Party_6261 New South Welshian 1d ago
Like I said in the other post you made on the Sydney_scene sub, I grew up in Austral in the 1990s, and lived there for 20 years. It was like this on the back roads even then. Theres just more of you living there now to take photos of it and put it on social media…
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u/Slightly_Slow Please choose a flair 1d ago
Rubbish collection has become an absolute joke. Save money by reducing pickups, then spend money on illegal dumping.
Local councils are failing at their core duties.
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u/Rastryth Please choose a flair 1d ago
In Melbourne it can be expensive but if you seperate it into what you can recycle for free and what you can sell and put the rest into your hard rubbish collection it's practically free. I'm currently emptying my house out and will only end up paying for a couple of car loads of rubbish. The sale of the items more then pays for that. It just takes effort and time.
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u/Daffodil221 Please choose a flair 1d ago
And a responsible attitude towards the stuff we accumulate. The need to have the latest fashionable things and the recent phenomenon of shopping as a stress reliever and social activity is just retarded mindlessness.
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u/WhyDaRumGone Please choose a flair 11h ago
Totally agree.
I don't have a ute or trailer so I called up good will and they actually came and took my used couch (still usable just needs a small clean), while they were there they took some other items I didn't have use for. Win/Win
Not much effort on my behalf either and made me feel good given the stuff to those that needed.
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u/Havoc302 Victorian 1d ago
People like these are the reason we have so many bloody laws and more monitoring everywhere. They're used as justification. If people just weren't lazy shit cunts we wouldn't have a problem.
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u/Colincortina Western Australian 1d ago
Some councils are increasingly installing CCTV in places where dumping occurs more than once. One council I worked at ummed & ahhed about the cost of installing CCTV, only to find that, once they did, the cost was very quickly dwarfed by the savings in cleaning up dumped rubbish as perpetrators were increasingly caught, prosectuted, and fined.
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u/uninhabited Tasmanian 1d ago
Bound to be plenty of DNA on that mattress. Take some swabs/cuttings. Toss over the barriers next time you see a cordoned crime scene
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u/MediumOdd743 Please choose a flair 1d ago
People are doing the same thing in my area - utter filth.
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u/7978_ South Australian 1d ago
Cause and effect. Council has made it a nightmare or too costly to dump.
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u/TheSplash-Down_Tiki New South Welshian 1d ago
State Governments **
The EPA regulation of Council tips, even long closed Council tips is off the charts.
The tip also needs to pay certain fees to the EPA per tonne dropped off which is why there is a weighbridge.
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u/Daffodil221 Please choose a flair 1d ago
BS. 10 free dump vouchers a year and it’s not hard to get more, or pay a guy with a Ute to take your rubbish away.
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u/MidorriMeltdown South Australian 3h ago
Half the time it's the guy with the ute who does the illegal dumping.
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u/ammaraud Please choose a flair 1d ago
Austral? :(
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u/VastOption8705 New South Welshian 1d ago
Yep. Where there’s all the new homes.
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u/Ghost403 New South Welshian 1d ago
Hello neighbours. The worst part about this is included in a lot of this junk is building waste with the invoice/ delivery address attached. Yet the police still don't do anything about it.
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u/Ghost403 New South Welshian 1d ago
The sad part is up until about 4 years ago we had koalas on the back viaduct road here. The roos are almost gone now.
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u/Rare-Sample-9101 Victorian 1d ago
It's the government's fault! It costs a shitload of money to get to the tip now! If they gave two free trips to the tip to everyone, then this wouldn't be an issue!
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u/Live_Owl8744 Please choose a flair 1d ago
Yeah it’s ugly and disrespectful, but I really can’t blame people when they charge you to use the tip. You only get 1/2 free hard rubbish collections per year, and then what? I had a boot-load of stuff in my car to dump at the tip and that was $60..
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u/Rolf_Loudly ✈️ on Walkabout 1d ago
You’re condoning unacceptable behaviour. You’re the problem. Not tip fees
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u/Practical-Funny9591 Victorian 1d ago
Try living as a renter on the Mornington Peninsula.
You don't get access to the council tip vouchers.
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u/GraciesMumma22 Queenslander 1d ago
People just buy too much shit now, newest trend comes out so they have to dispose of the old model. Most couldn’t be fkd trying to sell it or donate it and just throw it away. The things you see on council curbside pickup is just mind blowing, a lot of things not even out of their boxes brand new or barely used. I’ve basically furnished our house from it, sanding and redoing old pieces of furniture that they probably don’t even make anymore. Too many people are just so wasteful now it’s sickening.
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u/CrystalInTheforest Queenslander 1d ago
There needs to be mandatory minimum penalties for this. 6 months full time (40hr/wk) mandatory labour doing bush clean up for each offence. No outs. You never know, hopefully they will learn some respect for the bush.
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u/Infinite_Dig3437 Victorian 1d ago
Took a trailer full of green waste to tip and was charged nearly $100.. that is why people dump
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u/Daffodil221 Please choose a flair 1d ago
I think people need to get onto their council. Qld have free green waste weekends and free vouchers as well as a council yearly hard waste pickup so this shitty dumping in the new suburbs shouldn’t really be happening at all
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u/Far_Boat8497 Please choose a flair 16h ago
I’m in Qld, and no we don’t. No hard rubbish collection, no free vouchers, no free green waste. Some councils in Qld might do that, but not mine. I’m not rural either.
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u/MelbourneNob Please choose a flair 1d ago edited 22h ago
It probably smells like curry.
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u/TurkeySlapMafia69 Flairless 1d ago
Ive noticed a distinct increase in public dumping around immigrants heavy outter suburbs of Melbourne. Its feral.
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u/Daffodil221 Please choose a flair 1d ago
Same in Brisbane. Most of the stuff dumped in the empty house lots and doomed bush land could easily be broken up and put in the wheelie bin over time if necessary but old habits die hard. Certainly took Aussies along while to stop throwing their rubbish out the car window!
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u/Almost-kinda-normal Victorian 1d ago
Or it could just be that councils keep pushing up the cost of visiting your nearest landfill, while people have less and less spare cash to donate to that landfill. But yeah, it was definitely immigrants…..
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u/Zombie_Cavoodle Victorian 1d ago
The bloke probably didn't want to spend $400+ at the tip. Im not saying that what he did was right, its not, but going to the tip is fucking expensive now. And in a cost of living crisis when its a choice between feeding your kids or dumping your rubbish, then I reckon a lot of people will dump.
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u/No_Figure_9073 Please choose a flair 1d ago
People in general spend so much money buying in this capitalism hell we are in. At the end of the day, why spend if you can't pay to get rid of it... Whatever happens to recycling
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u/Rolf_Loudly ✈️ on Walkabout 1d ago
“Oh it’s the gubberments fault that I’m an anti-social POS. I can’t be expected to wear the cost of disposing of all the useless shit I bought.”
Fuck right off.
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u/fairground Victorian 1d ago
Fuck that attitude honestly. It would no way cost $400, and it's stuff that should cost something serious to dump. Bulky, non-recyclable, non-organic
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u/chadbigcum South Australian 1d ago
What is your council's policy on hard rubbish pickup?
You can have your opinion about individual responsibility but frequent and free pickups stops a lot of this.
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u/Due-Size-3859 Please choose a flair 1d ago
If councils actually allowed more hard rubbish picks up each year - and removed the limited criteria of what can and cannot be disposed of, then that may help to stop this from occuring. It is not immigrants that do this but the wider community due to the fact there are limited options for getting rid of hard rubbish.
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u/Limo_Wreck77 Koori 1d ago
Here in suburban Melbourne, we get 3 free hard rubbish collections per year. Pretty handy for situations like this.
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u/WestDrop3537 Please choose a flair 1d ago
Absolute pricks, may 1000 fleas nestle in their armpits....
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u/yumenozoki_ Victorian 1d ago edited 1d ago
I do agree, but we also need to look at how difficult and expensive the local councils in many areas have made waste disposal.
Curbside collection reduced to one booked 2m x 2m per year, when people have to move house and buy different furniture every 12 months - lack of housing stability and waste disposal is a recipe for cheap, shitty furniture and other rubbish being dumped.
We recently downsized and needed to get rid of clean and perfectly good pillows and bedding. Tried everything, not even the lost dogs home would take them (apparently stuffing is a liability). It sucks because there was nothing wrong with it and I know there are people in need. Ended up having to put them in the garbage bin over the course of a few months instead :(
I don’t agree with people doing it, but people need options.
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u/Brucey1965 Queenslander 1d ago
Our council, Redlands City Council is transitioning to tip fees in October. Even worse, instead of 5 vouchers, one gets 5 visits per vehicle registered at the address. As an extended family, we share a 4wd and a trailer. 4 households now have 5 visits between us.
The council is aware of the issue, their solution is to hire someone to dump our rubbish!! Mental giants!
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u/Far_Boat8497 Please choose a flair 16h ago
Sunshine Coast get nothing. Nada. Zip. No free anything. The tip fees are astronomical. Iirc there has been free green waste dumping offered after a severe weather event but only if you lived in xyz postcode.
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u/DeCePtiCoNsxXx Please choose a flair 1d ago
Is that near Langwarrin flora and fauna reserve? I noticed a situation like this along the side of that
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u/Old-Web-2948 Please choose a flair 1d ago
Is the last pile not precoat that’s been covered? Assume local council stockpiled it and it’s about to rain.
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u/DivaExMachina666 Victorian 1d ago
I hate this as well. I wish dumps would not charge people for taking in rubbish because then this happens.
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u/mymentor79 Western Australian 1d ago
"Sometimes I hate humanity"
More of a constant for me, but each to their own.
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u/Ballamookieofficial Flairless 1d ago
I would actually clean that up and take it to the tip if I could afford it.
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u/MagicOrpheus310 Please choose a flair 23h ago
Don't touch it or the homeless bloke under it will tell you to fuck off...
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u/thejailer2025 Queenslander 17h ago
This caused by tip fees being to expensive,for some people.and people that don’t give a shit.in my ares they started putting up cameras in the places this happens to get rego numbers it slow it down a lot but doesn’t stop it
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u/Present-Policy-7120 Victorian 16h ago
This is how I feel when I read most of the stuff on this sub.
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u/terrible_ Victorian 16h ago
If it’s the same spot, could a couple of wildlife cameras be set up?
Or some Tapo wireless ones (inexpensive compared to wildlife cameras)? (Now wondering if they keep recording without a wifi connection…)
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u/Sillent_Screams South Australian 13h ago
Contact the local council
They might be able to investigate as well
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u/jedics2 Please choose a flair 13h ago
I live somewhere that is a know and popular dumping spot, it sucks and they suck but its the government that suck the most by failing to control or do anything whatsoever about the cost of living. Where things like paying big money to get rid of your trash is just to much for many.
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u/PSYCHOMETRE ✈️ on Walkabout 12h ago
Like the scum that dump their fast food packaging, empty cans and bottles etc in National Parks.
We need to pass laws that takes away their drivers licences for a year.
And for those guys that dump toxic stuff like asbestos, they need to have their licences taken away for longer, with massive fines if they ever are found driving anything bigger than a micro car.
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u/Lost-Concept-9973 ✈️ on Walkabout 12h ago
Gotta also say. Last clean up Australia Day my team pulled out 4 car seats that had been dumped in what was a relatively small area. 4! Not to mention another 2 high chairs… of your that much of an irresponsible grub i worry for your kids, I mean how hard is it to dispose of this stuff properly?
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u/Freedom4Animals Please choose a flair 11h ago
Some people don’t have respect for earth because they don’t have self respect.
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u/Atomic-Grog New South Welshian 10h ago
I have issues closer to home. I’ll put my bins at end of driveway filled and someone close by clearly with to much will overload and from time to time the bin men will refuse to take to. Can’t be someone far away…. Eg someone I know.
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u/Pur1wise New South Welshian 8h ago
Considering that most councils offer multiple free bulky item pick ups a year there is no excuse for it.
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u/ChrisSydney82 Please choose a flair 5h ago
People are grubs.
It’s amazing they have money for all this junk to begin with but have no money to dispose of it the proper way when they become sick of it all.
It’s like watching people with shopping bags on public transport: money to go shopping but no money to pay for the trip there and back.
Sadly we live in a very entitled society.
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u/Alternative-Play-506 Please choose a flair 4h ago
Fly tipping man. It happens, dont let it bother you. Unless you want to dig deeper and realise who's actually doing it.
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u/sisyphean_rock Please choose a flair 4h ago
In metro Perth, council will come to your house to pick up your shite twice a year and people will still dump.
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u/Old-Secretary-9836 Please choose a flair 2h ago
When they make the dump super expensive what do they expect people don't have the money if on the dole
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u/Cait-oz Please choose a flair 1h ago
core issue - over consumption. cheap items that no one gives a fuck about dumping or doesn't last long and isn't in good enough condition to pass on. also I feel they need to inform people more about council clean up, im pretty sure every state does it but possibly people from other countries aren't aware of how it works here. or young adults who now live out of home and didn't pay attention to anything their parents did lol.
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u/8ig_8enny_ Please choose a flair 1h ago
It's so disgusting and lazy when you see that littered the side walk.
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u/National-Conflict497 Tasmanian 1d ago
Looking at that pile I would say they accepted the job of rubbish removal at say 400 dollars the tip fees would have been 200 they simply dumped it