Human nature and opportunity are taking advantage of the cleanup following Sunday's fierce wind storm. Council work crews are trucking away debris caused by the storm - and finding all manner of household waste mixed in on public land.
This ranges from whitegoods to general junk - and in many cases residents have taken the opportunity to prune unwanted vegetation and put it out where it will become a council responsibility.
Opportunists seem ever present. Charities with clothing bins are plagued by all manner of unwanted - and usually unuseable - goods left beside their bins which incur both transport costs and tip fees to remove.
Some people blame this trend on ever rising tip costs but in fact getting something for nothing seems deeply entrenched in the Australian psyche.
We already have the council's annual free kerbside pickup as a service and yet some residents abuse even that by dumping a mountain of rubbish - while others dump elsewhere under cover of night to keep the front of their premises pristine.
Unfortunately the illegal dumpers mostly get away with it. Eventually this discarded rubbish becomes such an eyesore that the council has no option than to deal with it - and that cost is shared city wide by all residents !
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