RE: Sick of shit
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I can easily fill our green bin. They started charging extra for that a couple of years ago, but it's worth it to us. I have a big hedge to trim some time as well as various other pruning jobs. We have several bins for making our own compost, but you can't put all the weeds and woody stuff in there.
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Were it not for Australia's biosecurity laws, I'd say, sure - fill a suit case and bring it on down. I pay my council rates for a reason, after all :P
We can put woody stuff in ours, but only if it is cut to dimensions that fit within the bin. It usually all goes through a chipper and gets sold on as compost by most of the waste management companies.
There were some scandals that some barkchip placed in public parks in New South Wales, where Sydney is had asbestos in it, because they weren't checking the bins for the wrong kind of dumping before putting things through the chipper...
Can't even get chain of custody for trash right :P
We can put most stuff in the council bin as they can deal with it better. For our own bins we want what will rot down and some weeds will survive to spread again. I expect that contamination of the various recycling bins is a big problem as some people don't care what they put in.
The brain rot is the worst kind of rot. Happens before it can organically occur :D Not hard to put the right thing in the correct bin! My school had has go on an excursion when I was a kid to the waste processing facility. At the time, it was all sorted by humans.
Almost all of it was recycled, but man, some of the smells, I'll never forget. :D
We stole the neighbours green bin when the renters moved out so we have two. Have had them for years. No one has dobbed, no one has noticed, and the council still picks them up. For the record, if the neighbour said 'have you seen my bin' we would have said 'yes, we borrowed it' but they didn't.
I got an email from the council for the property we sold last year about how we had two yellow bins. I kindly informed them, "I don't own that property anymore, please contact the current owners" and have heard nothing since...
The thing is, that property was in a group of 10, and there would be 30 bins. Because it was on a main-ish road near other units - bins would go missing all the time, so I think the entire lot had about 45 bins stowed away in various places.
Haha I imagine that would be quite the game.