Unsightly rubbish.

What strange people we humans are. This morning our local paper had a lead story deploring the amount of rubbish left kerbside in Carter's Lane, Towradgi for the council's annual pickup of unwanted items.
The story contained complaints from residents and owners of businesses who reported that this rubbish had been kerbside for weeks and was being scattered and picked through by scavengers. The inference was that council or it's contractor was not doing the job.
There is another side to this story. Wollongong council distributes a brochure to every home in this city with maps setting out the pickup areas - and pickup dates clearly shown.
Towradgi - north of Dixon street - which contains Carter's Lane is scheduled for pickup between April 10 and 27.
Hence the problem can be sheeted home to residents who don't bother to read the brochure. Once someone puts rubbish kerbside the rest follow like sheep, with the result that each suburb resembles the city rubbish tip for weeks before the cleanup is due.
We continue to do this at our peril. Once the kerbside pickup of unwanted items was a monthly affair - which diminished to twice yearly - and is now annual. It is obviously a cost to council hence if residents continue to abuse the privilege and complain about the city appearance because of their sloth - it does not take Nostradamus to predict what follows next !