When they do that, the contents of the yellow and red bin are collected together.

Rear-lift trucks are needed for those locations, which use two runners behind to empty bins and keep an eye out.īut that system is notoriously slow and expensive.Īll-up rear-lifters 'cost 900 per cent more' to operate than side-loaders, Mr Khoury said, so many councils opt to use just one truck to keep costs down. He confirmed side-loading trucks can't fit down many Sydney streets. Tony Khoury, boss of the Waste Contractors and Recycling Association said recycling collection is 'part of an issue we've been fighting for 20 years'. 'It is working in Australia, it results in valuable bales of recycled material that can be resold in the market… there might be outliers not doing the right thing, but we are on a great trajectory as a recycling country.'īut waste collectors claim the practice shown in the photos and video happens because of pressure from councils and the public to run low-cost collection services and to get in and out of streets quickly so traffic isn't blocked. The boss of the Australian Council of Recycling, Suzanne Toumbourou, said the images are 'jaw dropping' and hurt the public's opinion of recycling It's only wide enough for one car to park on one side of the road with just enough room for another vehicle to pass. 'I live in a very narrow dead-end street in Earlwood with only 13 houses.

Happy to charge people for the bins, not bothered to work it properly.'Īnother resident didn't buy the excuse at all, saying separate side-loader trucks - one for red bins and one for yellow - manage to navigate her narrow street and collect residents' bins. 'That’s outrageous! He’s just so blasé about it, too. On social media, upset residents slammed the mayor's excuse. 'There is no room to turn around and we are forced to send in rear-loading trucks manned by two employees.' 'The simple facts of the matter are the streets are too narrow for our regular side-loader trucks to operate. 'Just so you know this is not a new issue and has been the practice in Earlwood for over a decade,' Mayor Khal Asfour told the resident in a message.

The area's mayor raised eyebrows with his excuse when one local contacted him to ask why this was happening. Canterbury-Bankstown mayor Khal Asfour told a resident that recycling and rubbish was being mixed on some routes for over a decade

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