"terryc" wrote in message
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On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:48:40 +0000, 0tterbot wrote:

it's quite a service!
i rather thought the tip should combine with that "men & sheds" thing
someone is trying to get up - one of their projects could be
restoring/making things out of all the good stuff!

Agree with your idea about men's shed.

it's all right, isn't it? one of the tip ladies recently wrote to the paper
to express her shock that good items were still ending up at the tip (where
they don't belong) & that the community wants to do something about this
asap. if the shed thing gets going it would be nice if i could find a way to
express the idea to them. (seeing as how i am not a man).

Unortunately, around the city, they definitely do not allow scavenging and
it costs to enter. bummer/.

but it costs either way, whether through rates or directly (or both). but
one excellent thing about cities is that they do clean-up days so lots of
good stuff can be taken away by interested parties before it even reaches
the tip! in my town, people are very shy to take away any free stuff left
out on the nature strip - so that method of passing things along doesn't
really work here very well. whereas the same pile left where i used to live
in sydney wouldn't last 10 minutes. :-)

Another growing problem is that so much
metal stuff is being thrown out that a few people are making a
living driving the street and picking up any metal, so by the time
it gets to the tip, it really is trash.

well, again, that's really all that should be there, isn't it? (and even
less of it would be good).
kylie