feeds from rubbishremoval.com.au http://rubbishremoval.com.au/rss/ en-au http://rubbishremoval.com.au/rss/ http://rubbishremoval.com.au/static/campfire/layouts/images/omg-logo-small.png http://www.rubbishremoval.com.au/news-articles/2011/3/21/actions-speak-loudly/ Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST news It is possible to make a difference, just ask Clean Up Australia Day's Ian Kiernan, writes Nick Galvin. In 1987, yachtsman Ian Kiernan sailed solo around the world. It was an extraordinary achievement but it was overshadowed by what Kiernan saw during his 156 days at sea.Almost everywhere, the oceans were full of pollution and rubbish.Rather than being overawed, the former builder decided to do something about it.In 1989, he organised the first Clean Up Sydney Harbour Day, inspiring more than 40 ...

It is possible to make a difference, just ask Clean Up Australia Day's Ian Kiernan, writes Nick Galvin.

http://www.rubbishremoval.com.au/news-articles/2011/3/7/city-cleans-up-its-act-the-morning-after-excess-of-night-before/ Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST news ON THE morning after the Mardi Gras night before, the rubbish was still knee-deep in places on Oxford Street, but at Dawes Point, overlooking the harbour, Alan Au's Clean Up Australia squad was having difficulty finding any.His team - including chefs from the nearby Park Hyatt hotel carrying big plastic bags and kids as young as two equipped with pink gloves and miniature tongs - picked their way across the tourist hotspot.Eventually, after painstakingly removing piles of cigarette ends and plas ...

ON THE morning after the Mardi Gras night before, the rubbish was still knee-deep in places on Oxford Street, but at Dawes Point, overlooking the harbour, Alan Au's Clean Up Australia squad was having difficulty finding any.

http://www.rubbishremoval.com.au/news-articles/2011/2/27/huxley-returns-to-brilliance/ Sun, 27 Feb 2011 00:00:00 EST news THE Melbourne Rebels have presented a new start for veteran utility back Julian Huxley. But the version Huxley plans on revealing this year — and of which he showed glimpses in by way of an impressive performance at inside centre on Friday night against the Brumbies — is a bit of a back-to-the-future approach.Gone will be the structured and cautious approach Huxley says he has been forced to adopt in recent years. And in its place will be the flamboyant and instinctive pl ...

THE Melbourne Rebels have presented a new start for veteran utility back Julian Huxley.

http://www.rubbishremoval.com.au/news-articles/2011/2/21/times-up-council-fights-backpackers-with-the-clock/ Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:00:00 EST news BACKPACKERS and their vans have long vexed councils in charge of popular Sydney beaches, taking up residence each summer in prime coastal locations.But the City of Sydney is also grappling with the problem, as a constant flow of road-weary travellers turn Bicentennial Park in Glebe into a free camping ground. They spill into the park, taking advantage of its toilets, water bubblers and rubbish bins and live beside the reserve for months at a time.Rangers are powerless to remove the tourists beca ...

BACKPACKERS and their vans have long vexed councils in charge of popular Sydney beaches, taking up residence each summer in prime coastal locations.

http://www.rubbishremoval.com.au/news-articles/2011/2/19/a-cut-above-the-rust/ Sat, 19 Feb 2011 00:00:00 EST news A FRIEND rang me recently lamenting the fact that there was rust on the leaves of her prized geraniums. Humidity is the problem, I told her. The same with black spot on roses, tomatoes growing like crazy but hardly fruiting, blighted azaleas and bugs eating everything. It all comes down to the recent humidity.As far as my friend's geraniums are concerned, all she can do is spray and remove the badly infected foliage (disposing of it in the rubbish bin, not the compost). It's also good to leave s ...

A FRIEND rang me recently lamenting the fact that there was rust on the leaves of her prized geraniums. Humidity is the problem, I told her. The same with black spot on roses, tomatoes growing like crazy but hardly fruiting, blighted azaleas and bugs eating everything. It all comes down to the recent humidity.

http://www.rubbishremoval.com.au/news-articles/2011/2/18/in-the-eye-of-the-storm-a-man-not-easily-pinned-down/ Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:00:00 EST news "THE thing you've got to remember about Scott Morrison," says a senior Liberal, "is he's a very ambitious man."The opposition's immigration spokesman has also become the subject of both loathing and admiration, the touchstone of an ideological divide within the Liberal Party since he shot to the headlines this week for attacking the government for flying relatives to Sydney for the funerals of asylum seekers killed in the boat tragedy at Christmas Island in December.He later ...

"THE thing you've got to remember about Scott Morrison," says a senior Liberal, "is he's a very ambitious man."

http://www.rubbishremoval.com.au/news-articles/2011/2/12/a-million-voices-leave-leave-leave/ Sat, 12 Feb 2011 00:00:00 EST news THIS was to be a night like no other in Cairo. After 17 days of protests that had irretrievably shaken one of the Arab world's most entrenched leaders, hundreds of thousands came to watch their dictator fall.Inside Tahrir Square, the national focal point of a movement united not by a man or woman but a single idea - that President Hosni Mubarak has to leave now - there was an incomparable sense of excitement.Popcorn sellers lining the Kasr el-Nile bridge leading into Tahrir struggled to meet dem ...

THIS was to be a night like no other in Cairo. After 17 days of protests that had irretrievably shaken one of the Arab world's most entrenched leaders, hundreds of thousands came to watch their dictator fall.

http://www.rubbishremoval.com.au/news-articles/2011/2/12/defiant-mubarak-spoils-the-party/ Sat, 12 Feb 2011 00:00:00 EST news THIS was to be a night like no other in Cairo.After 17 days of protests that had irretrievably shaken one of the Arab world's most entrenched leaders, hundreds of thousands of Cairenes came to watch their dictator fall from the tree.Inside Tahrir Square, the national focal point of a movement united not by a man or woman but a single idea, that Mubarak has to leave — and leave now — there was an incomparable sense of excitement.Popcorn sellers lining the Kasr el-Nile brid ...

THIS was to be a night like no other in Cairo.

http://www.rubbishremoval.com.au/news-articles/2011/2/12/abbott-on-the-attack-makes-cuts-on-the-run/ Sat, 12 Feb 2011 00:00:00 EST news THE return of Parliament after an election year usually feels like the morning after a very big party. Some of the more outrageous poll-driven policy gyrations are by unspoken collective agreement quietly forgotten, the crazier excesses of rhetoric toned down, the less affordable of the grand election promises tidied up and taken out with the old corflutes in the rubbish.Then the winner gets on with governing and the losers try to keep the winner accountable while dreaming up policies that might ...

THE return of Parliament after an election year usually feels like the morning after a very big party. Some of the more outrageous poll-driven policy gyrations are by unspoken collective agreement quietly forgotten, the crazier excesses of rhetoric toned down, the less affordable of the grand election promises tidied up and taken out with the old corflutes in the rubbish.

http://www.rubbishremoval.com.au/news-articles/2011/2/1/postcode-3000/ Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:00:00 EST news Another show on the boil in cooking worldTOO many cooking programs do not appear to be spoiling the appetite of viewers. There's MasterChef, My Kitchen Rules, the coming Conviction Kitchen and the shows of former MasterChef contestants — Poh Ling Yeow's Poh's Kitchen and Julie Goodwin's Home Cooked! Now, another MasterChef face, Justine Schofield, will host a program filmed in Melbourne and convert couch potatoes into cooks with confidence. Schofield, a photogenic foodie, will be joi ...

Another show on the boil in cooking world

http://www.rubbishremoval.com.au/news-articles/2011/1/29/dont-let-an-index-distract-you-from-the-main-game/ Sat, 29 Jan 2011 00:00:00 EST news THE market fell last year — down 2.6 per cent on the ASX 200. It's a number to which everyone will compare the achieved returns of their fund manager, or perhaps spouse, and chastise them or fawn upon them accordingly.But let me tell you that our preoccupation with statistics in the sharemarket, particularly the quoting of past returns, does nothing but mislead the beginner, pervert stock selection and distract you from the main game — making money — and here' ...

THE market fell last year — down 2.6 per cent on the ASX 200. It's a number to which everyone will compare the achieved returns of their fund manager, or perhaps spouse, and chastise them or fawn upon them accordingly.

http://www.rubbishremoval.com.au/news-articles/2011/1/24/projects-axed-as-flood-bill-soars/ Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:00:00 EST news PROJECTS and upgrades in Brisbane not related to floods will be shelved as the council begins to tally the financial impact of the disaster on the city's budget, with two infrastructure repair projects already costed at $140 million.Lord mayor Campbell Newman has ruled out the possibility of a council levy on ratepayers, and said yesterday he would instead delay or cut projects over the next few years to pay for the clean-up and repair bill.Life in the Queensland capital is slowly returning to n ...

PROJECTS and upgrades in Brisbane not related to floods will be shelved as the council begins to tally the financial impact of the disaster on the city's budget, with two infrastructure repair projects already costed at $140 million.

http://www.rubbishremoval.com.au/news-articles/2011/1/24/projects-not-related-to-disaster-postponed/ Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:00:00 EST news NON-FLOOD related projects and upgrades in Brisbane will be shelved as the council begins to tally the financial impact of the disaster on the city's budget, with two infrastructure repair projects already costed at $140 million.The lord mayor, Campbell Newman, has ruled out the possibility of a council levy on ratepayers. He said yesterday he would instead be delaying or cutting projects over the next few years to pay for the clean-up and repair bill.Disaster recovery payments are driving a wed ...

NON-FLOOD related projects and upgrades in Brisbane will be shelved as the council begins to tally the financial impact of the disaster on the city's budget, with two infrastructure repair projects already costed at $140 million.

http://www.rubbishremoval.com.au/news-articles/2008/1/25/illegal-waste-dumpers-are-given-notice/ Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST news THE hunt is on for an illegal waste dumper after a series of incidents in Wollongong.The NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change has appealed to Wollongong residents to report any illegal dumping after a white station wagon towing a trailer and cage was spotted dumping in the area.The department has also warned that builders who don't keep records about waste management could be forced to clean up illegally dumped rubbish.They can also face fines of up to $5 million an ...

THE hunt is on for an illegal waste dumper after a series of incidents in Wollongong.

http://www.rubbishremoval.com.au/news-articles/2006/10/24/first-in-best-trashed-in-praise-of-neighbourly-recycling/ Tue, 24 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EST news There's always a jewel among the junk at the hard rubbish pick-up. But she who hesitates will be empty-handed.ONE person's garbage is another's treasure and if it's treasure to you, the hard rubbish collection is heaven on a nature strip. Some people can't stand second-hand goods unless they are rare and expensive; some can't bear anyone else having them either so stuff them in the bin. A strange and rather cruel attitude.The legality of removing someone else's hard rubbish resides ...

There's always a jewel among the junk at the hard rubbish pick-up. But she who hesitates will be empty-handed.

http://www.rubbishremoval.com.au/news-articles/2006/3/6/rubbish-removal-will-free-waterways/ Mon, 06 Mar 2006 00:00:00 EST news I AM amazed it has taken so long for the council to address our stormwater rubbish problem.Every resident from Figtree to Bellambi who lives near a creek or watercourse knows that these areas have been relatively ignored and the amount of debris that builds up has caused the problem.Before the devastating floods that hit our region in the late 1990s, the growth of trees and related debris in our watercourses was not removed or addressed. Subsequently our drains blocked, causing a ba ...

I AM amazed it has taken so long for the council to address our stormwater rubbish problem.

http://www.rubbishremoval.com.au/news-articles/2005/3/31/from-roads-rubbish-to-social-change/ Thu, 31 Mar 2005 00:00:00 EST news NEWCASTLE City Council general manager Janet Dore told a gathering of about 50 women yesterday that local government had gone beyond roads, rates and rubbish to embrace social change.Ms Dore, addressing the crowd at the Women's Network luncheon held in Mansfield, said that councils' functions until the 1970s were roads, rates and rubbish.But over the past 30 years it had changed to include social planning and community development, she said.Ms Dore said that Newcastle City ...

NEWCASTLE City Council general manager Janet Dore told a gathering of about 50 women yesterday that local government had gone beyond roads, rates and rubbish to embrace social change.

http://www.rubbishremoval.com.au/news-articles/2005/3/2/new-policy-to-clean-up-unsightly-bin-sites/ Wed, 02 Mar 2005 00:00:00 EST news CHARITY clothing bins have long been uninvited dumping grounds for people too lazy or ignorant to dispose of their rubbish properly but Wollongong City Council hopes to change all that.The council has introduced a new policy to regulate the use, location and number of clothing bins on council land throughout the city.In a report to the council on Monday, property manager Peter Coyte said the bins had been the source of many community complaints because of the items of garbage deposi ...

CHARITY clothing bins have long been uninvited dumping grounds for people too lazy or ignorant to dispose of their rubbish properly but Wollongong City Council hopes to change all that.

http://www.rubbishremoval.com.au/news-articles/2003/12/26/how-sydney-works-new-years-cleanup/ Fri, 26 Dec 2003 00:00:00 EST news The city is confident that the success of previous years' clean-ups will be repeated, states a press release that fell off the back of a City of Sydney rubbish truck. Every New Year's Day, about 1am, a small squadron of people - perhaps the only ones in the vicinity who are sober and not kissing each other - begin to clean up the mounds of rubbish left behind by the other million or so in the council's recently expanded domain. This is a largely invisible army, working under cover of d ...

The city is confident that the success of previous years' clean-ups will be repeated, states a press release that fell off the back of a City of Sydney rubbish truck.

http://www.rubbishremoval.com.au/news-articles/2002/7/20/all-at-sea-over-attempt-at-rubbish-disposal/ Sat, 20 Jul 2002 00:00:00 EST news A shipload of unwanted ash is back home after a voyage lasting 16 years, Matthew Engel reports from Washington. After the longest and least glamorous cruise in maritime history, the world's best-travelled rubbish has finally come home. Sixteen years after it left the United States on a journey that reached South-East Asia, 2500 tonnes of incinerator ash is being dumped once and for all 150 kilometres from its starting point: the dustbins of Philadelphia. En route, the rubbis ...

A shipload of unwanted ash is back home after a voyage lasting 16 years, Matthew Engel reports from Washington. After the longest and least glamorous cruise in maritime history, the world's best-travelled rubbish has finally come home.