September 10, 2025 • 4 mins
Burnside council has been trialing general waste collection happening only once a fortnight rather than week, how would you feel if they did this in your neighbourhood?
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
I heard podcasts here more mix one or two point
three podcasts, playlists and listen live on the free iHeart app.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Bird's Eye Council.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
We love talking about Bird's Eye Council, even though neither
of us live there. It is hilarious. They have got
at the moment a waste collection trial. They've been running
it for ten months. Oh no, they're running it for
a year. And the way that this works is your
general waste bin, which is red in my area.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
The rubbish bin blue in mind.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Only gets picked up once every fortnight, no way, instead
of once a week.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
What the green bins they'll do once a week.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Everyone's got big gardens in bird don't need you to
be once a week.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
How have you doing your garden? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
It depends if you're retired and doing your garden all
the time. But the general waste is fortnightly. They've been
trialing this for the last year. They've had it with
sort of thirteen hundred households. The point of it is
this is a way to try and make people improve
their recite cing habits within the council area. When you go,
I can't just throw everything in the bin because I
actually need to know what is general waste and what's
(01:15):
not general waste, because it's going to take longer for
them to come and pick up my general waist bin.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah, and they're giving more bin to people who want
to have babies.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
You can upsize your bin.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
You can get a two hundred and forty liter bin
instead of a one hundred and forty liter bin. You
just have to apply to the council. And that's for
people who need to manage the disposal of nappies and
have larger houses.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
What about if you've got dogs, because like my husband
does all the dog poo and he'll come in and go,
I just picked up sixty seven bags of dog pooh.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Wow, sixty seven bags. Just eat those into the garden.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Yeah, But like do I get more bin?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
No, eat the poos into the garden.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Now, I'm not putting pool in the garden the garden
fertilizer because it would stink. My dogs eat their pooh too,
so that would not go down.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Well, how would your bin go in your household?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
You have a family of five, I'm okay with this,
to be honest, Eliza and I we live by ourselves.
We have a dog and I throw the pool in
the garden and we would be able to manage a
fortnightly oh easy.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Literally I don't know what it is, but we have
so much rubbish that literally every every hour boys bin time.
One of them runs does the recycling, one does the
other one. That's their job in the house. And then
I'll obviously there's overflowing bin. So then I get in
trouble from my husband because I don't fold. I don't like,
you know, with boxes and recycling. I just chucked the
(02:33):
whole thing in the in the bin rather than like
stepping on it and crushing it down.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Then so inefficient. That really gives me the pain.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
So then occasionally I'll go outside and I know that
I'm on camera so i can prove to him that
I've done it, and I'll stand in the bin and
squash it all the way down and jump on the
bin hoping there's no tins of tuna and stuff that
are going to cut me. I would be absolutely screwed
with that. I'd have to go and like put my
rubbish in other people's bin.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
We had to, so we missed one week and then
so had a fortnightly collection. There was a garbage everywhere
on the floor around the bin, running up and down
the street, putting it in other people's bins.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Yeah, and I'm fine with that. If my bin's out
on the curb and someone puts rubbish in my bin
and that's already gonna be picked up, go for it.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yah care as long as you're not putting yucky nappies
in my bin, because that stings fortnightly.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Does not work for families, not at all.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
So the way that they want this to work in
this trial that they've done, it's not all of Burnside Council.
They've done it with thirteen hundred households. They're going to
add a few more households this time around. The way
they want it to work is, one, you put more
of your stuff in the recycling bin. You have to
think about it a little bit more. You don't just
throw it willy nilly in your general wastebin. Two, the
green bin gets way more use because your green bin
(03:38):
gets picked up once a week. You should throw all
of your food scraps in the green bin instead of
throwing them in the general waste. Two.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
That's too no, that's too much, too much ever for
you to save you save the planet.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Do you know that.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
The actual funny thing is, when we got this article,
I don't even know what day Binda is at my
house because I don't do the bins.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I have no idea. Is it weakly im portanitely? I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Actually, one of the great benefits of it going to
Fortnightly and our household would be that I have to
do it half as much because I'm the only person
that does a bins.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yeah, isn't that backwards.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
It's a man's job to do it.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Sorry, but it kind of is.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
If you're you know, that sounds very backwards of me,
but you're you know, a husband and wife.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah, yeah, in the kitchen
I heard podcasts here more mix one or two point
three podcasts, playlists and listen live on the free iHeart app.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Bird's Eye Council.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
We love talking about Bird's Eye Council, even though neither
of us live there. It is hilarious. They have got
at the moment a waste collection trial. They've been running
it for ten months. Oh no, they're running it for
a year. And the way that this works is your
general waste bin, which is red in my area.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
The rubbish bin blue in mind.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Only gets picked up once every fortnight, no way, instead
of once a week.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
What the green bins they'll do once a week.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Everyone's got big gardens in bird don't need you to
be once a week.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
How have you doing your garden? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
It depends if you're retired and doing your garden all
the time. But the general waste is fortnightly. They've been
trialing this for the last year. They've had it with
sort of thirteen hundred households. The point of it is
this is a way to try and make people improve
their recite cing habits within the council area. When you go,
I can't just throw everything in the bin because I
actually need to know what is general waste and what's
(01:15):
not general waste, because it's going to take longer for
them to come and pick up my general waist bin.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah, and they're giving more bin to people who want
to have babies.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
You can upsize your bin.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
You can get a two hundred and forty liter bin
instead of a one hundred and forty liter bin. You
just have to apply to the council. And that's for
people who need to manage the disposal of nappies and
have larger houses.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
What about if you've got dogs, because like my husband
does all the dog poo and he'll come in and go,
I just picked up sixty seven bags of dog pooh.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Wow, sixty seven bags. Just eat those into the garden.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Yeah, But like do I get more bin?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
No, eat the poos into the garden.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Now, I'm not putting pool in the garden the garden
fertilizer because it would stink. My dogs eat their pooh too,
so that would not go down.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Well, how would your bin go in your household?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
You have a family of five, I'm okay with this,
to be honest, Eliza and I we live by ourselves.
We have a dog and I throw the pool in
the garden and we would be able to manage a
fortnightly oh easy.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Literally I don't know what it is, but we have
so much rubbish that literally every every hour boys bin time.
One of them runs does the recycling, one does the
other one. That's their job in the house. And then
I'll obviously there's overflowing bin. So then I get in
trouble from my husband because I don't fold. I don't like,
you know, with boxes and recycling. I just chucked the
(02:33):
whole thing in the in the bin rather than like
stepping on it and crushing it down.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Then so inefficient. That really gives me the pain.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
So then occasionally I'll go outside and I know that
I'm on camera so i can prove to him that
I've done it, and I'll stand in the bin and
squash it all the way down and jump on the
bin hoping there's no tins of tuna and stuff that
are going to cut me. I would be absolutely screwed
with that. I'd have to go and like put my
rubbish in other people's bin.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
We had to, so we missed one week and then
so had a fortnightly collection. There was a garbage everywhere
on the floor around the bin, running up and down
the street, putting it in other people's bins.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Yeah, and I'm fine with that. If my bin's out
on the curb and someone puts rubbish in my bin
and that's already gonna be picked up, go for it.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yah care as long as you're not putting yucky nappies
in my bin, because that stings fortnightly.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Does not work for families, not at all.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
So the way that they want this to work in
this trial that they've done, it's not all of Burnside Council.
They've done it with thirteen hundred households. They're going to
add a few more households this time around. The way
they want it to work is, one, you put more
of your stuff in the recycling bin. You have to
think about it a little bit more. You don't just
throw it willy nilly in your general wastebin. Two, the
green bin gets way more use because your green bin
(03:38):
gets picked up once a week. You should throw all
of your food scraps in the green bin instead of
throwing them in the general waste. Two.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
That's too no, that's too much, too much ever for
you to save you save the planet.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Do you know that.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
The actual funny thing is, when we got this article,
I don't even know what day Binda is at my
house because I don't do the bins.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I have no idea. Is it weakly im portanitely? I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Actually, one of the great benefits of it going to
Fortnightly and our household would be that I have to
do it half as much because I'm the only person
that does a bins.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yeah, isn't that backwards.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
It's a man's job to do it.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Sorry, but it kind of is.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
If you're you know, that sounds very backwards of me,
but you're you know, a husband and wife.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah, yeah, in the kitchen
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