Comments by "Helmuth Schultes" (@helmuthschultes9243) on "American Reacts to Australia Garbage Trucks" video.

  1. Yellow base plate colour is NSW. The suburban areas do vary by regions but many suburbs tend to such "green" scene in many places. Most bin provisions are three, with four in some, and becoming standard for many suburbs now. While there are variations, I will mention my area bin lid colours as example. RED is trash destined to land fill, YELLOW is recycled items, with soon a BLUE to be added for specially recycled Glass, the other GREEN lid is for garden wastes, that goes into composting, but newly being brought in is composting kitchen/food wastes to be added to the GREEN lid bin. In my case the weekly night/day is Thursday, with RED each week, and YELLOW, GREEN alternate weeks. How the new BLUE bin for glass will be handled is not clear yet. Different parts of a council region will be assigned different days, so the trucks need only cover partial suburb areas. Different trucks handle the 'waste' RED and recycle YELLOW and the GREEN garden wastes. Unbelievable is some councils in trying to save costs want/are changing all bin pickup to fortnightly, to much objection by residents. Normally you have choice of 120L and 240L bins, and get charged by volume chosen as part of annual rates charged by councils. Again some are or want to change to separate charge for rubbish collection, no longer included in rates based on assessed property value. Due to inflating council rates, state government introduced caps on annual rate increases, and councils are trying to sidestep the capping of rate rises, by separate charging for trash removal. Further we normally have free one or two annual bulky household waste collections for say old toys, furniture, appliances, but not old tyres, engines, waste chemical, building scraps, concrete etc Fir some of those there are special days you can deliver such disallowed wastes to suited collection points, or deliver to waste collection sites against charges. The free kerbside household bulky collection is however volume limited to several cubic meter volume, and must be manually moveable by the collection workers who come by with a truck. You must in my area get a collection booked with a provided tag label, to be attached to the pile, that must only be put out at roadside grass strip no more than 24 hrs before booked collection. Taking things from other people's pile is generally illegal, say broken TV, Computer, Appliances, since recycle value assists covering the free collection system, so taking such deposited rubbish is treated as theft from the council. Many areas still have a general one or two hard wastes collections for areas within the council, where all in a given part of suburb all at same time put out their bulk rubbish, not by specific booking such. There are variations in all waste handling across the many towns, suburbs and areas around Australia. Hope the above adds sufficient explanation to clarify a bit more than explained in that video on garbage trucks. Always be aware there are local variations of all matters rubbish. One final point, in sink garbage disposals as frequently seen in USA are not used here that I am aware of, at if so very rarely. No kitchen wastes are sent down the sewage system by being groundup and flushed away.
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