Book in your hard waste collection

I'm glad I finally got round to calling the Wyndham Council to book in my first hard waste collection for 2010.

Previously, we would be told this day this month is the next Hard Waste Collection Day. Everyone would put out their unwanted furniture, white goods etc on the nature strip outside their home. It made the whole street look extremely unsightly, and of course was an invitation to all and sundry to come and help themselves.

Not that I mind someone else finding value in my throwaways, but Council takes a different view: legally, it's an offence to make off with someone's unwanted couch! (In the interests of recycling and all that, why leh?)

So now we're asked to book in for our 2 complimentary collections a year, which can be any day, and to put out the items the night before in the driveway. Council sends a brochure telling us what they will collect and what they won't, and issue a red sticker which you stick on to your pile so they know what to collect, and so others are put on notice. Hands Off!

A much nicer, more discreet way of doing things, don't you think?

The good guys from the Council came this morning to pick up our trash stash: old mattresses, a door, fly screen, rusty dog transport cage, broken chair...

(Which reminds me, we forgot to put out the armchair by the front door. Drats!)