Council pickup bike in Perth

"Graeme Dods" wrote

Quoted message said:

Does anyone know what areas in/around Perth currently have kerbside hard
rubbish collection?

Hmmmm, think there is one coming up around Duncraig. I will check the local
rag tonight for you.

BruceA

Graeme Dods said:

Does anyone know what areas in/around Perth currently have kerbside hard
rubbish collection? I'm about to go on a week long camping/canoeing trip
down south and will need a bike to do the shuttle runs up & down the
river(s). There is no way I'm taking my "proper" bike and my "junk" bike
has silly little skinny tyres that will sink into the sand/mud.

So I'm after a free junk bike that will get me there and I don't need to
stress too much about locking or loosing. I've been on the prowl on a
couple of local collections recently, but no joy yet :-(

Graeme

Our part of South Perth just had its collection in the last couple of weeks.

SteveA

Graeme Dods said:

Does anyone know what areas in/around Perth currently have kerbside hard
rubbish collection? I'm about to go on a week long camping/canoeing trip
down south and will need a bike to do the shuttle runs up & down the
river(s). There is no way I'm taking my "proper" bike and my "junk" bike
has silly little skinny tyres that will sink into the sand/mud.

So I'm after a free junk bike that will get me there and I don't need to
stress too much about locking or loosing. I've been on the prowl on a
couple of local collections recently, but no joy yet :-(

Graeme

http://www.dlgrd.wa.gov.au/localGovt/localGovtContacts/localGovtList.asp

provides a list of local gov websites. They should have hard rubbish dates.

[censored]! Wifey threw out the local paper!

But all is not lost. Here is the link for our LG area pickups.
http://tinyurl.com/datev

BruceA

M Bison said:

http://www.dlgrd.wa.gov.au/localGovt/localGovtContacts/localGovtList.asp

provides a list of local gov websites. They should have hard rubbish dates.

Thanks for that. I've had a look at gov websites before, but not knowing
the names of councils didn't help. Some of the local sites had pretty good
information about where and when the pick ups were, others said remarkably
unhelpful things like "You'll know when we stick a note in your mailbox".

It looks like Canning and Melville might be a good bet.

Do these pickups use shared resources at all? i.e. is it one (or a few)
sub-contracted companies doing it for a number of suburbs. It looks like it
might be from the pickup dates for neighbouring councils. It might mean
there's a very useful "elephants' graveyard" of useful junk somewhere out
there.

Graeme

quote='Graeme Dods'On Mon said:

dlgrd.wa.gov.aulocalGovtList.aspOpen ↗

provides a list of local gov websites. They should have hard rubbish dates.

Thanks for that. I've had a look at gov websites before, but not knowing
the names of councils didn't help. Some of the local sites had pretty good
information about where and when the pick ups were, others said remarkably
unhelpful things like "You'll know when we stick a note in your mailbox".

It looks like Canning and Melville might be a good bet.

Do these pickups use shared resources at all? i.e. is it one (or a few)
sub-contracted companies doing it for a number of suburbs. It looks like it
might be from the pickup dates for neighbouring councils. It might mean
there's a very useful "elephants' graveyard" of useful junk somewhere out
there.

Graeme[/QUOTE]
The other question to ask is whether there is any recycling of the items that are picked up from the kerbsides. Not all of the councils have their own refuse tips (do any?). Some, if not all, use 'transfer stations' as a central point before taking refuse off to a tip somewhere. If recyclable items like bikes end up someahere central, it could be worth paying $20 to get a hack bike.

Another option is the Police auction conducted by Ross's Auctioneers in Perth

Next auction with bikes - 10:00am Wednesday, 7th December 2005

In Ross's showrooms, 241 Railway Pde, Maylands, WA
Inspection: 9am to 4pm day before auction & 8am to 9.30am auction day

Closer to the day there is usually an auction catalogue rossauction.com.au07122005pOpen ↗, but you can't really tell what the bikes on the list are in my experience.

SteveA

SteveA said:

The other question to ask is whether there is any recycling of the
items that are picked up from the kerbsides. Not all of the councils
have their own refuse tips (do any?). Some, if not all, use 'transfer
stations' as a central point before taking refuse off to a tip
somewhere. If recyclable items like bikes end up someahere central, it
could be worth paying $20 to get a hack bike.

That's worth looking into. It looks like a number of councils use Cleanaway
<http://www.cleanaway.com.au> so I'll give them a call.

Quoted message said:

Another option is the Police auction conducted by Ross's Auctioneers in
Perth

Next auction with bikes - 10:00am Wednesday, 7th December 2005

In Ross's showrooms, 241 Railway Pde, Maylands, WA
Inspection: 9am to 4pm day before auction & 8am to 9.30am auction day

I keep looking at those (I used to get email updates about their auctions),
but unfortunately this thing called work gets in the way :-/

Graeme

quote='Graeme Dods'On Tue said:

The other question to ask is whether there is any recycling of the
items that are picked up from the kerbsides. Not all of the councils
have their own refuse tips (do any?). Some, if not all, use 'transfer
stations' as a central point before taking refuse off to a tip
somewhere. If recyclable items like bikes end up someahere central, it
could be worth paying $20 to get a hack bike.

That's worth looking into. It looks like a number of councils use Cleanaway
<http://www.cleanaway.com.au> so I'll give them a call.

Quoted message said:

Another option is the Police auction conducted by Ross's Auctioneers in
Perth

Next auction with bikes - 10:00am Wednesday, 7th December 2005

In Ross's showrooms, 241 Railway Pde, Maylands, WA
Inspection: 9am to 4pm day before auction & 8am to 9.30am auction day

I keep looking at those (I used to get email updates about their auctions),
but unfortunately this thing called work gets in the way :-/

Graeme[/QUOTE]
saw some close to whole and ready to ride cycles at the Mindarie~Joondalup tip a week or so back, most would need a chain oil and a new tyres at the most

Tony