Thread: paying for dumping your old tyres $35 !

When you get new tyres fitted theres a $5 disposal charge usually in the price.

Originally Posted by tombraider

When you get new tyres fitted theres a $5 disposal charge usually in the price.

yes, I was charged $4 ea for getting rid of the ones I had replaced but these were just sitting around in the yard looking untidy so I thought I'd get rid of them.

Provision of rubbish disposal services was originally instituted as a public health measure to try and stop people from dumping rubbish wherever they could (usually in the streets). As such it was provided at no additional charge by councils, and still is to some extent (imagine the state of city streets if you had to pay to open the rubbish bins). But councils as well as state and federal governments have increasingly moved to charging fees for just about everything (with no reduction in taxes or rates of course). In the case of councils they are squeezed between capped rate increases and uncapped transfer of responsibility from state (and sometimes federal) government to them, and for all levels of government ever increasing costs of compliance with ever increasing levels of regulation of everything, invariably with little thought of what the financial and other cost of compliance will be.

In the case of charging for rubbish it will (and does) inevitably lead to more rubbish dumping which probably costs more to clean up than the money that would have been raised by the charge to accept the rubbish (so it is rarely cleaned up - as an example the "Community Conservation Area" (formerly a state forest) adjoining my place is decorated with half a dozen dumped cars, some of which have been there for over ten years.

John

I know of a guy in East Brisbane who has 8-10 courier vans on the road. He refuses to pay the disposal fee to the tyre service, telling them to put the dead tyres in the van. He has been known to dump them in the street and then 'phone the alderman's office to complain that someone has been dumping rubbish again, and the council had better send someone to clean it up. He reckons for the rates and other charges he pays to run his business and employ 12 people, he is entitled to have ALL his rubbish taken away, not to have to pay to dump selected items. I went to the Chandler tip with an associate who was to dump a Valiant body shell after he had stripped it for parts. The dump guy said cars are $50. John told him he was not going to pay anything, he could be allowed to tip it then and there, no charge, or he would dump it right in the way of the gate after hours and someone would have to shift it to open up in the morning. He was allowed to dump it no charge.

I bought new tyres (Dunlop Monza 205/65 15 @ $95 ea all up) for the Falcon recently from the local Ford dealer.
I said 'if you're going to charge to dump them, I'll have them...'
He said; 'no charge to us, so no charge to you...'

Howzat?

GQ

"User pays and pays and pays" is the catch cry these days. If there's any way the crooks on our local council can make extra bucks to waste on their pet projects, they will find it.
I went to our local tip recently with a bit of rubble in the back of the Defender from one of my "jobs in progress" and was told it was a minimum of 6 bucks to dump it. So I made a nuisance of myself by turning around in front of others queueing up and drove to where there was some building going on and dumped it in the big bins there.
No way will I pay their exorbitant yearly rates then pay again for every little extra so called "service"!
Then they moan about rubbish in the bush and how much it costs them to remove it. They've bought it on themselves.
Alan H.

Brisbane City Council annually issues ratepayers with five "Green Waste" vouchers for whole uncontaminated loads of green waste, and five "General Waste" vouchers for general domestic waste. Vouchers are for 100kg. each. and the vehicles are weighed in and out, and if over 100kg. has been dumped you have to pay. Toxic and dangerous waste is not accepted at general dumps, only at the special dumps which to most people are a bloody long drive away. This includes things like fibro, tyres, paint, gas bottles, chemicals, solvents, and so on.

So what happens is the stuff the dump won't accept is put in your weekly wheelie bin, or dumped in bushland, creeks, streets.

Acceptable vehicles, by the way, are to be under Registered GVM of 4.5 tonnes, a normal car, station wagon, or 4WD, with or without trailer. A two or more axled trailer is considered commercial and ratepayers vouchers do not apply. A ute or one tonner will be queried as to whether you are carrying your own domestic waste. I don't see the point in all the carry on. The stuff needs to be dumped and will be, somewhere or other, better it be at the managed council dump

A friend who owns a number of rental properties has tenants ask for the dump vouchers. He refuses as he says he needs them to dump all the crap left behind or cleaned out after a tenancy.

Last time I went to the tip (sorry 'recycling station') in Brisbane which was about one year ago I was allowed to dump a maximum of 4 tyres along with the rest of my rubbish. I was told this by the weighbridge operator on my way in as she could see two on top of the load in the ute. Little did she know there were six in total. All of which got left in the area next to the bay as I guessed you weren't supposed to put them in with the rest of the stuff.