Waste Transfer Bins and Wheelie Bins. This is another classic example of this Council’s arrogant approach to its residents. Residents have a variety of reasons as to why wheelie Bins are not adaptable to rural areas. Distance from the residence to the front gate, intervening steep access, hungry dog packs, vandalism and theft being out of sight of residences, no cleaning devices at front gate, collection trucks on narrow and sometimes unsealed roads, steepness of terrain and restricted accesses due to trees etc. The list goes on.  There are some remarks emanating from Council that such rejection of this service would add to the cost of others however it is Council itself through non consultation with the residents in the first place who are to blame.The rejection of such a service requires the transfer stations to remain intact. Council is continually criticising the public for untidy housekeeping of the transfer sites and dumping materials too large for the transfer bins provided. Many of these sites are roadside established and lack signage for direction and prohibited dumping. The Pomona dump in the Noosa Shire may be upheld as a desired example. That facility charges for household waste, because Pomona has a garbage service however apart from oils and tyres the rest is free. It also has a green waste disposal area and unlike the Traveston dump does not burn such waste. Instead it is mulched by their visiting mobile shredder at intervals and the mulch is made available to the public free of charge. Cooloola has such a mobile shredder. Instead of burning waste and adding to the global emission Council should be setting an example and at the same time providing a mulch service to assist in greening the Shire.

The resort to the costlier (to the resident) wheelie bin service to eliminate the Transfer Stations surely cannot be because of any inadequacy of the rural waste service levy. In the four years that this Council has been in office the rural waste service has increased by 790%. From $11.20 to $99 per annum. This is apart from the dump establishment levy of $35.50 per annum which has gone up 42% in the term of this council. The transfer stations should be set up with recyclable bulk bins, at present not established.