Lucky you! I've just bought some compost worms this morning but they're only going into a foam box and I haven't even got a proper compost heap, everything goes into the chook pen and gets raked out (after digestion) and put into a pile for a couple of weeks and then used. One of these days I'll make a proper bin.

Funny that Puck, I was looking at all the fantastic junk on the footpaths here today too.
Sadly nothing interesting for a garden fixture this time but its great when you can recycle.
Good luck with all the new found treasures...Cheers..MM

What a find!! Good luck to you.
Cheers,
Dee.

Oh, good for you! Well done.

Good luck! I suggested our suburb have a hard rubbish collection to our council but they were dumbfounded - even appeared not to know what one was. However, I tour the garage sales nearly every week, and half the garden and most of the pots would get up and run if a garage sale whistled, as that's where they came from, usually at next to nothing, or even free if they were really disliked by their owners.

Good on you. I've become a regular at our tios recycling depot and also the builders recyclers in town, not to mention the op shops. People throw out the most amazing things. I must admit though to being a tad jeaslous of your find. I don't think our council would approve of such a venture. Where I used to live in Sydney, it became illegal to scrounge on hard rubbish day. The contracted collectors complained that people nicked all the good stuff!!!

Hi Raymondo,

I was telling my father about this on the weekend and he said the same thinng - that it was completely illegal. It hadn't even occured to me at the time but I think he is right - and probably for the same reason that you mention - so the contractors get a reasonable return. Having said that I suspect something like these compost bins would have ended up in landfill anyway, or perhaps as recycled plastic. It's not as though they are high value items like scrap metal.

I managed to fill them yesterday - I went to the racecourse about 10 minutes from my place and got 10 big bags of horse manure/straw waste so now the bins are full and in a few weeks (with a bit of turning) I should have a very nice mix to build up around the potatoes I have planted (for the first time). Don't you love it when it all comes together - I think my planets must be lined up.

Puck

Hi Puck,
I understand the point about the contractors getting a reasonable return for their work. Unfortunately I have seen many usable items just thrown into the crusher truck by the contractors because they don't happen to have a use for them.
It might be illegal, but I would much rather see these items being gleaned by the public, than having not only go to landfill but being totally wasted.
So good on you, enjoy your find and think of it as an environmental favour.
Cheers,
Dee.

Good thing you didn't know it's illegal eh? What a find!

I was lucky the other day too, found an ideal support for my climbing rose (it has probably been jinxed as it isn't getting any leaves as yet). It was two circular metal frames that they keep irrigation hoses in at Mitre 10. I asked what they were prepared to take for them and they saud $2 each. I stuck one atop the other and wired them to garden stakes. I was rapt. All I want now is my rose to grow and cover it. It's great though, when something good happens. Jan.

I get a rubbish pick up from the farm but my bin is about half a kilometer away at my neighbors rubbish point.I found someone had filled my bin with old plastic garden pots.I was quite happy to recycle them into my shed for my cuttings that I grow.We used to haved a community rubbish skip.There was always stuff left that wasn't rubbish so if you needed a bit of wire or old tyres etc usually you ccruised to the skip to have a look.That all finished when someone threw a dead calf into the skip.Thats when we got the bins!(at a price).
I would keep pleading ignorance ....and a greater need ...
for removing the items.
I know when we cleared my dads place I kept the compost bins
but other people maybe don't have the time to advertise or even consider that someone would actually pay money for a used bin.
I would be just glad to know that these Items have been returned to a useful life by an appreciative soul such as yourself.
regards sarah

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This is the rose support I made out of recycled irrigation hose holders. Not fancy but when my blue moon decides to grow I'm hoping the stakes will be covered. Jan

In our Council area, the contractors just crush EVERYTHING from the hard rubbish collection. I've watched them do it. I made some enquiries, and apparently they have machines for separating metals for recycling, but that's all.
I make a point of collecting anything useful and NOT metal from the side of the road when I see it.
Anything that reduces landfill has to be good. Anything that saves me money has to be good, too.
Last year, my mother and I collected enough stuff from the side of the road to have a Church Jumble sale. The church made quite a few dollars, we got lots of exercise, and the landfill was reduced a bit.
Most of the people leaving things by the side of the road were only too happy to see their junk being useful!! There were one or two exceptions, so we left their rubbish!

whenever we have our annual collection I leave it till the last day to put stuff out because we get a constant convoy of cars, utes and trucks kerb crawling and checking out the stuff thats on the roadside (from the loaded up trucks I think a lot of them are second hand dealers maybe), but it is soooooooo annoying because it goes on all day everyday for 2 weeks but I dont get cars constantly stopping outside the house until I put the junk out.

Ive also heard it is illegal to take stuff set out for collection, our stuff goes to a tip recycling centre where it is sold cheaply to anyone who wants it and it keeps a lot of stuff out of landfill. aparently if you knock on the door and the homeowner says you can take it then youre ok and it's not theft.

Trancegemini,
I think you are in the minority having a recycling shop at your tip...I wish we had them here!!
Cheers.
Dee.