They're not always skilled - mums recycling bin went missing last week, council called her today to tell her it was a trainee driving the truck and her wheelie bin got thrown into the truck! They're sending her a new bin lol
Ours left our recycling bin a quarter full this morning 🙄 Had 1 get crushed once lol came home 1 day and it was split on all 4 corners lol My neighbors 1 got sent over her fence last week cause he dropped it from like 3 meters high 😂 Some of them are shocking...
Hey dude ! I work for the Cleanaway business, trucks I drive get a check over every 6 weeks for maintenance, when they are getting work done there’s always a spare truck to complete the days the trucks down !
They usually service them after you're finished for the day in the cities, but they will be taken off the road if faulty, servicing every 350 hours or so too.
Hi Ian. Unlike the USA where I believe most garbage collection is done by private companies and you get billed, in Australia the collection of waste is the responsibility of local government. Land owners pay mandatory council rates and garbage collection is included in these. Depending on the council, your rates can also include 3 free kerbside pickups a year (where you can get rid of big items).
@@bloozee Not in all councils. My old council back in Sydney still employs their own garbos… and still have men running with the truck to put the bins onto the rear platform & then back to the kerb. It means those trucks only go down a street once, because they are clearing both sides at the same time.
DENNIS is a British brand. In Australia and New Zealand the garbage trucks are dual controlled, so they are both right and left hand drive. You're supposed to by law drive to the area you're picking up from from the right hand side drivers seat, then switch to the left hand side drivers seat when actually picking up the bins. Of course you always see the drivers on the LH side because who's gonna keep switching back and forth right! The back part of the truck is called a compactor.
@@catey62 my point, the law isn't that specific You can not MODIFY a car to be left hand drive (there are obvious exceptions) But the doesn't state that you can't drive on the left hand side Its not just garbos Street sweepers Even some mobile cranes are left hand drive
I work with GPS systems and I thought you'd be interested to know that many of these trucks have GPS systems in them to show which route they're doing obviously but also things like bin lifts are recorded which goes into things like maintenance schedules, driver productivity, and customer service. If a bin is not put out for emptying the driver presses a button to record that plus to take a photo to show that the bin was not there to be emptied - so if the customer claims that their bin was not emptied there is proof that it wasn't there. There are other things that get recorded too such as pinpointing if an overhanging branch is becoming problematic they can record the location so that the tree can be trimmed back. There are several other features available for vehicles with these systems.
Our local council has also fitted out their trucks with pot hole sensors, to collate those data points for better city street maintenance. When the bins are emptied into the truck, AI scans the waste to ensure citizens are correctly placing items in the allocated bins for recycled, green and general waste. All this is aimed at reducing the overhead associated with incorrect waste disposal, as generally sanitation is one of the highest line items of expenditure within our local council, i.e. public money that could be better spent elsewhere.
Aussie garbo here. Correct on the joystick control. Some have one more like a mushroom, a lot of them have more of a broomhandle control. The whole system runs off hydraulics. Being that the trucks when empty start at around 13 tonnes (and our legal max in these HR units is 23 tonnes), the brakes definitely do wear out quicker than usual. And a lot of parts do get a lot more hammered causing them to brake or wear out much quicker. Our trucks are dual side control and have a PTO switch over. You drive from the right side of the truck whenever you're not doing the collection aspect, and operate from the left for the collection (all the hydraulic controls are on the left side). The trucks have steering wheels and pedals on both sides, you just manually switch over the controls to which side you'll be on. Different colour lids depict what's inside the bins. Where I work red is garbage/ general waste, yellow is recycling, green is greenwaste, and they've recently rolled out glass only in some areas and from what I've seen they come with purple lids. I'm currently in a 2019 Volvo FE for my daily routes and I do greenwaste. The council I collect for also has an uncommon collection where greenwaste is weekly and the recycling/ garbage alternate fortnightly. If you have any other questions you wish to ask, I'm happy to answer whatever. Also if you wish to see how the interior is all set up and how things work, I can show you.
Also RE trying to describe the area of the truck that holds the garbage, it's generally referred to as the "body". Basic, but that seems to be the common name among garbage companies.
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Hey Ian, I'm in Canberra, we have 3 types of wheely bins Red Lid 140 Litre capacity for general household garbage, Yellow Lid 240 Litre capacity for recyclables &, Green Lid 240 Litre capacity for Garden waste like grass clippings & weeds & prunings. The Red Lid Bin is collected each week in my suburb on Monday morning, the Yellow Lid and Green Lid bins are collected on alternate weeks also on Monday morning. You have a great channel & content, keep it up.
Hi, I'm from Epsom, Bendigo, Victoria. My bins are the same colours as yours and get picked up Monday also. Yellow and green bins alternate. Thankfully I have gardeners on green bin week. If in doubt check what the neighbours have out.
@@JustJokes-bw4fs Here in Mandurah we still only have 2 bins, general (Green lid) and recycling (Yellow lid). At my place we get the general garbage collected every Thursday and recycling every second Thursday. Just around the corner it's Wednesdays
here in brisbane, specifically brisbane city council, all out bins are 140L, and you have to order a green bin, which get emptied every other week. you can also order a 240 L regular or recycling bin if you require it.
Most houses have 3 or 4 Wheelie Bins, one of each colour for specific waste types: Red lid = General Waste (usually smaller bin than recycling ones to encourage trash sorting) Yellow lid = Any product with the recycling symbol on it (these logos are regulated to help people sort recycling) Green lid = Garden Waste & Organic Kitchen scraps (not all homes get Green bins depends on area [i.e: apartments shouldn't need these] & some councils don't offer this bin at all but most do) Blue lid = Paper/Cardboard (rare only some places have these bins, where you don't have this bin you would put these items in the yellow bin) Purple lid = Glass (rare only some places have these bins, where you don't have this bin you would put these in the yellow bin) Bin collection is managed by local city councils but the colour coding is standardised nationally (albeit not fully rolled out to all regions). Collection days vary but most Red bins get collected weekly, Yellow & Green bins fortnightly but on alternate rosters so one week Red & Green go out then next Red & Yellow never all 3. Blue & Purple are usually every 4 weeks but again these are rare bins & pretty new additions so schedule varies wildly by council area.
Our bins are big green lid garden waste, little green bin general waste and yellow lid recycling. My daughters is green little bin, rust coloured garden waste and blue lid recycling. Note she is in the next suburb within a different council area
@@marthanewsome6375 Hard to cover all suburbs but I checked it out before posting the comment most is an accurate statement by population served according to government stats. Brisbane City council for instance offers green bins, I live in Syd & have lived in a few different Sydney council areas all of which have offered green bins, though like I said not every council does yet but seems a majority do according to government data. As I mentioned though not all homes get a green bin even where they exist as it depends on council rules like garden size or whether the home is an apartment, terrace, single house etc or other factors like tree coverage (for example some homes even get two green bins in some areas of Syd) or some places you only get one if you pay a fee to upgrade to having the 3rd bin for green waste. It would definitely be easier if everything was nationally the same hopefully one day soon! :)
Green bin for green matter, yellow for recycling and red for general waste. Green bin picked up weekly, red and yellow two weekly. Mine is 7.00am Friday morning - a couple of times I have forgotten to put my bin out on time and they circled back to collect - they are the best!
Some municipalities greenwaste bin is red topped. I'm from a green top greenwaste bin area and thought it was ubiquitous until recently. Just makes sense...green for greenwaste. Our general waste bin in green toped too, but the same colour green as the bin, whereas the greenwaste top is a bright green. But yeah yellow for recycling seems standard.
For what it's worth, I put the bins out Monday night for Tuesday morning collection. Red-lid general waste weekly and larger yellow-lid recyclables fortnightly (every other week). :) I was going to answer several questions, but I see they've all been covered in the comments. Taiwan's garbage trucks are worth a look. They come most days. Due to the lack of space for bins in many streets, lanes and alleys, they play music, signifying their approach giving people time to get their rubbish and take it out to wait for the truck. Trucks usually. The yellow ones play music, and a white recycling one follows.
I'm pretty sure ours is the opposite general waste every second week, recycling weekly which is funny (kinda) cause the recycling bin is at least double the size of the other
I was in a 6 story apartment building, about 80 apartments, we had 30 general waste red bins, about 18 yellow recycle bins. Well it's easier to move a small bin than have a large dumpster on site which you'd need about 4 of them, then access for the bigger truck. Most have underground car parks and storage room easy access from the lift, no viable to put dumpsters in.
Yellow base plate colour is NSW. The suburban areas do vary by regions but many suburbs tend to such "green" scene in many places. Most bin provisions are three, with four in some, and becoming standard for many suburbs now. While there are variations, I will mention my area bin lid colours as example. RED is trash destined to land fill, YELLOW is recycled items, with soon a BLUE to be added for specially recycled Glass, the other GREEN lid is for garden wastes, that goes into composting, but newly being brought in is composting kitchen/food wastes to be added to the GREEN lid bin. In my case the weekly night/day is Thursday, with RED each week, and YELLOW, GREEN alternate weeks. How the new BLUE bin for glass will be handled is not clear yet. Different parts of a council region will be assigned different days, so the trucks need only cover partial suburb areas. Different trucks handle the 'waste' RED and recycle YELLOW and the GREEN garden wastes. Unbelievable is some councils in trying to save costs want/are changing all bin pickup to fortnightly, to much objection by residents. Normally you have choice of 120L and 240L bins, and get charged by volume chosen as part of annual rates charged by councils. Again some are or want to change to separate charge for rubbish collection, no longer included in rates based on assessed property value. Due to inflating council rates, state government introduced caps on annual rate increases, and councils are trying to sidestep the capping of rate rises, by separate charging for trash removal. Further we normally have free one or two annual bulky household waste collections for say old toys, furniture, appliances, but not old tyres, engines, waste chemical, building scraps, concrete etc Fir some of those there are special days you can deliver such disallowed wastes to suited collection points, or deliver to waste collection sites against charges. The free kerbside household bulky collection is however volume limited to several cubic meter volume, and must be manually moveable by the collection workers who come by with a truck. You must in my area get a collection booked with a provided tag label, to be attached to the pile, that must only be put out at roadside grass strip no more than 24 hrs before booked collection. Taking things from other people's pile is generally illegal, say broken TV, Computer, Appliances, since recycle value assists covering the free collection system, so taking such deposited rubbish is treated as theft from the council. Many areas still have a general one or two hard wastes collections for areas within the council, where all in a given part of suburb all at same time put out their bulk rubbish, not by specific booking such. There are variations in all waste handling across the many towns, suburbs and areas around Australia. Hope the above adds sufficient explanation to clarify a bit more than explained in that video on garbage trucks. Always be aware there are local variations of all matters rubbish. One final point, in sink garbage disposals as frequently seen in USA are not used here that I am aware of, at if so very rarely. No kitchen wastes are sent down the sewage system by being groundup and flushed away.
Most Australian garbologist (Garbo) trucks became the now known “One arm bandits” back in the early 1990’s, they put a lot of blokes on the rubbish pile. Now my shitty council wants to bring in 4 bloody garbage bins, I usually put the bins out on Sunday night for Monday morning collection but now I’m getting confused. Glass recycling is once a month, regular recycling is once a fortnight, household waste is weekly & green waste is I don’t know anymore. Cheers
Here in Brissie we only have the 3 bins, red lids for general waste (but mine has a dark green lid because the bin is so old) and yellow lid for recycling (every second week), then the lime green lids for garden waste which are the opposite week to the recycling. the garden waste bins are optional, you have to request them from council and when you do they bump your rates up $50/quarter, so I don't have one, I'd only be able to fill it once or twice a year so it's not worth it, actually I've only seen about 3 in my street so I guess most people feel the same way.
@@ianrobertson2282 Bummer, I wonder if you could argue against it if you don't produce green waste? I don't have a "lawn" to mow and very slow growing "drought tolerant" plants, (I've not once in 20 years pruned my Aloe-Vera plants 🤣)
In NSW red lids are for general waste, yellow lid is for recycling, green lids are for green waste eg tree and grass clippings and different trucks collect specific waste. Multiple garbage bins in a line are from apartments or town house developments. Garbage collections are under local council control. Each local council area employs different companies to do the collections, hence the different livery.
Same here in Germany. Guess Europe with it's small and twisted roads doesn't lend itself to this type of half-automatic collection. They definitely couldn't get my bins with the trucks in the video.
I had to wait until 8:50-something for you to finally notice.... And NO, not JUST Left-hand Drive- they're Dual Control (D.C). Yep, they swing both ways! ;)
Dunno about other states but here in WA you are only allowed to use the left hand side while operating the truck, collecting bins. If you drive to or from the depot, to the tip, etc, you must use the right side. Just some useless trivia for the algorithm ;)
Garbage day in my town (Finley, New South Wales) is Tuesday morning. My area has strange bins. Instead of Red Lids for regular trash, and Yellow for Recycling, both our bins have yellow lids. However the bin itself is black for regular trash and blue for recycling. My town doesn't have garden waste bins (green lids) or Glass bins (purple lids) or paper bins (blue lids)
So that first Iveco is the last of a truck model known as an Acco. The Acco name is an acronym for Australian constructed cab-over, made in Victoria.The cab has undergone cosmetic changes, but the original square shape hasn’t changed for decades. Iveco took over International Trucks in Australia in 1992.
The first International ACCO’s from the sixties were AACO short for Australian Army Cab Over as originally were built for the Australian Army by International Australia with the venerable 282 ci petrol sixes and were built also for the civilian market in C-Line etc where they gained the nickname of “Butter Boxes” in a range of configurations and capacities in petrol sixes, 345 & 392 ci Inter V8’s to diesels of all types over the years to Cummins and Detroits in Prime movers, the later or 2nd generation comprised a comprehensive specification and models up to the ACCO 3070-A’s with 903 Cummins in this basic body style that lasted right up to the IVECO’s, always led to believe that ACCO stood for “Australian Chassis Cab Over” and don’t forget there was also a narrower and lighter model nicknamed the “Baby Acco” in 345 V8 petrols and small diesels and also 4WD versions for the CFA tankers of the day and don’t forget International Australia’s Atkinsons with the basic ACCO cabs but with all the fruit and in line haul interstate prime movers also a lot with Detroit power back in the day
@@jamesgovett3225 the civilian derivative of the army International's the venerable C1300, and others, were known as a Crayfish.... all shell no guts.
I am one of the enthusiasts that films these trucks and I have to say this is brilliant. Our trucks are amazing to watch and our Superior Pak units were the ones you saw. Others that are very popular are custom made, for example our oldest contractor Solo, who builds custom bodies. The arms are joystick operated and the "bins" as we call them are picked up using that joystick. The operating is pretty unique; up, shake the hell out of it and flog it down. Definitely chose the best channels and would love to see a part two. Well done.
Hi Ian, I work for cleanaway in Vic. I Look after the East of Vic in the fleet department for the Vic Solids Waste. Our trucks are maintained every 350 engine hours for service or any asset 5 years or older will undergo an inspection every 75 days regardless of it does the hours or not. Also operators can submit a defect notice on their post-trip which needs to be signed off and cleared prior to the truck been returned to by a qualified mechanic. Cleanaway is Australia's largest waste collection business that is listed on the ASX list. (Stock exchange)
One reason Iveco are used, is that they can provide a dual steer kit, which is relatively easy to retrofit to the vehicle. The unit shown, is actually based on the once Australian built International Acco. We can't legally drive the vehicle in left hand drive configuration, except for when it is actually working, picking up the bins (Same applies for truck based road sweepers). Another popular brand, used in South Australia, is the British Dennis trucks, (the grey one) more well known for building fire trucks in the UK. The whine sound, is the PTO driven hydraulic pump. Usually, in most states, red top is general landfill, yellow top is recyclables, and green top is green (garden) waste. Not sure if it has the same name in the US, but the big "tin box" on the back, holding the rubbish, is called the Hopper in Australia.
The first shots are taken in NSW (yellow plates) - looks like the northern suburbs of Sydney where I live. Red bins are domestic waste, blue are paper and cardboard recycling and yellow are plastic, tins and bottle recycling. In leafy suburbs we also have larger green bins for garden vegetation recycling.
Just been reading all the comments. Who thought garbage day and garbage bins would be so interesting. Well done Ian, good conversation starter. Never knew I could be interested in garbage trucks, but found this all very interesting and good to learn. PS we live on a very small island out from Brisbane, because we only have a few neighbours in our street, we have to put our bins across the road as the truck man only wants to come down our street once! We have no trucks on our island, they come via barge, from the mainland, so over every Thursday to empty the regular household waste and every second week another truck comes to empty the recycling. They drive like crazy as racing to make the barge back to the mainland with all our rubbish
My brother in law was an old school garbologist in the north of Canberra. He did the running and lifting etc. Very very hard on his body though. I'm glad the trucks are better now.
You want to see them reach between cars to grab the bins... They're usually auto gearbox with dual control... The Dennis company was an Australian company who coach builders, way back. I didn't realise they did this type of work too. The number plates are from NSW and the bay looked like it was part of Sydney harbour. You didn't comment on the Aussie rear loader has a 100% Electric truck sign on its side. Interesting, I didn't know that...
Yes , maintenance on these things is very intensive , the garbage run is hard on the vehicles , i had a mate that worked in the maintenance section and he said they require constant maintenance to keep them on the road .
In most councils in NSW, there are three bins. Red lid - general waste. Yellow lid - recycling for paper, glass, tin, aluminium foil, cardboard. Green lid - green waste like grass clippings, tree trimmings and soiled food containers. In my Council, the red & green bins are weekly (my red is smaller than the yellow or green bins) & the yellow is collected once a fortnight. Depending on where you live, will determine your garbage collection day and your fortnightly cycle. My bins go out Wednesday night for collection on Thursday.
My sister lives in a complex of a mixture of townhouses and villas and they have a dumpster for general rubbish, but each home has their own yellow recycling bin. They don’t have green waste bins as they have a contractor employed by strata to do the lawns and garden maintenance and he takes all the green waste away.
13:00 it’s funny how some council areas won’t pick up your bin if it isn’t spaced atleast 50cms apart. It would be funny to see how far these bins would stretch with this gap haha. Love ya work
I had a sticker put on my bin years ago telling me bins should be 1m apart and next time I could get a fine (thankfully never did) but I think that is more likely 1m from cars/trees/power poles etc. I'm in Mt Gambier, SA.
For my property there will soon be four bins to be put out in some sort of rotation. There is the usual garbage bin, the green waste bin, the recycling bin for all things other than glass and then there will be a recycling bin for glass only. For a rural family member they have garbage picked up every two weeks and recycling picked up the opposite weeks.
Green bins all over Australia are for leaves, twigs etc, yellow bins are for recycling, red bins are for landfill. Each council has its own collection trucks provided via contracts with various company's, who perform truck maintenance on behalf of each council.
The Australian Garbologist is a young student who films garbage trucks as a hobby, mostly in the suburbs of Sydney. There is a community of "Garbos" across the country ranging in age from 8 years to adult and every age in between. The US also has the same community, and it is interesting to see the differences between our 2 countries regarding the methods of collecting and the vehicles used. All of these young people post their videos on CZcams and The Australian Garbologist (Daman) is one of the best. The long bin lines are from apartment complexes.
@The Australian Garbologist No worries, Daman 👍 I was so proud of you when he highlighted your channel. This is about as good as it gets for promoting your channel.
I think every street has the one pisshead because most of the recycling bins make no noise, but the one house you hear just glass bottles lol It's Friday here.
Ian, the Iveco is an ACCO, basically an International Harvester that was rebranded... the same way that Sterling Trucks looked identical to a Ford Louisville. The second truck, the battleship grey, is a Dennis - a British company, a little like Oshkosh, in that they only specialty build. They make dustcarts (garbage trucks) and fire engines, they formerly made buses too. You'll note that it's technically mid-engined, rather than COE, the cab is actually low floor and ahead of the front axle.
@@kingstongrigg4029 They may not necessarily be criminals. Perhaps they just like to go against the mainstream and live their lives dangerously. Ha ha!
International Harvester Australia started in the early 20th Century (I want to say 1916 but I’d have to look it up to be sure) and had a long history in Australia. Around 1970 ish they shared cabs and things with Dodge (Chrysler Aust) trucks. I think the ACCO was the most famous Aussie Inter. There are at least a couple of people collecting and restoring International trucks here in Oz. Also my local council uses Iveco ACCOs for the garbage duties.
And ACCO actually stands for Australian Constructed Cab Over. My old man has a AACO Australian Assemblied Cab Over. The difference between the Inters and Dodge Trucks of the same vintage is Dodge have hydraulic clutch system and the Inters have mechanical clutch system
@@stanislavczebinski994 As an Australian who has grown up with my dad owning many different year models of the ACCO, yes they are a home grown design that changed very little from their inception in the 1960s to their demise in approximately 2020
3 bins in our council area. Red Lid- rubbish. Yellow Lid- mixed recycling. Green Lid - compostable organics. Rubbish day is Wed morning for us and Green/Yellow are alternate weeks. Honestly the red bib could be too with the very minimal load it gets after the other two are filled.
Normal garbage day in my town is tuesday every two weeks. The tuesday in between is plastic garbage early in the morning and paper later the same day. Food waste day is on wednesday and glass is on friday. Greeting from Germany. They use different trucks for different garbage. But we mostly got the trucks where you put garbage in at the back. No robot arms in my town. Usually there are three workers on each truck. One driver and two guys who grab the bins and empty it and put it back. If something drops on the street they take a broom and clean it. They have to close the lits and put the bin back from where they took them.
Most local govt (councils) subcontract their rubbish collection to a private company. These trucks normally collect the regular waste (red lids) on their first drive by, then the recycling bins on the next run. Yellow is paper and aluminium etc, purple (in some locations) for glass and green for garden/food scraps. Red bins are done weekly, but most recycling is fortnightly.
Our council also offers “hard rubbish” collections twice per year x 3 cubic metres of things like furniture, fridges, old bikes, etc. for these types of collection they often use the older styled truckers and throw everything into the back compactor section. But there are occasion where a second truck with a flatbed and cage around it is also used. The council will also collect larger garden prunings, oversized garden items that will not fit into your regular waste bin.
The area early with the hills and water... It looks like eastern Sydney with the Sydney heads (North Head, near Manly, in the distance). Video is looking north, the ocean is to the east (right) - you can just see the (Sydney Harbour) entrance when the video is paused and Ian is talking about yellow plates.
Light green lid = green waste (compost) Yellow lid = recycling Red Lid = General waste (land fill) At least its like that here in WA in most suburbs. I also think that the garbo's ability to leave the lid open on the bin is inversly proprortional to the weather for that day. IE: Lots of rain and storms = loads of lids open so they fill with water, otherwise most of them closed. It seems to be the way it goes in my neighbourhood, on sunny days virtually no lids left open, on rainy days every lid is left open, and sometimes they balance the bin at 45 degrees leaning on its lid for support. Wednesday morning for me too, one week is recycling and green/organic waste, and the next week its general waste and green/organic waste. 8:52 Look at the front of the truck, they are all dual control, meaning they have a full set of driver controls on both the left and right side of the cab (you can see the steering wheel in the other side of the cab if you look carefully, just near the windscreen wiper where you see over the dash and out the side window). Its the same way with some learner driver cars although they usually dont have two steering wheels, just dual sets of peddles. Or at least they did when I was learning to drive. The reason for left hand control is they have a joystick to control the claw in the cab and a camera monitor showing the compactor, and they can look in thier mirror or over thier shoulder to grab the bin. there has been occasions when a garbo has emptied a bin, looked in the camera view as the bin is emptying found a child either hiding in the bin or dumped if it was an infant, they have an emergency stop button in the cab that immediately cuts power to the compactor and claw so they can jump out if they see something odd or dangerous. Its been on the news not often but at least twice that I can remember, once I remember it was a litter of kittens dumped, the other time it was a young child that was either hiding/stuck in the bin or been dumped by some careless person.
Lids are like that here in Queensland too. I think it might be Aus wide (all though my neighbour has a black lid instead of red for general waste). Where I live our bins are emptied Friday morning).
In Sweden we also generaly have several bins (depends on where you live, there is two kind of systems) but they have RF-id in steed, so all bins are picked up with the same truck, then the truck knows what compartment to put the trash in. Some trucks have up to 6 compartments. In some areas there is in steed a bag system so depending on the color of the bag its different garbage. So there is a machine sorting it at the recycling center.
Hi, Nice video, just thought I'd give a bit more info on thr trucks and where they are. 1:47, this trucks is a Iveco Acco Euro 4 Truck, with the body made by Superior PAK and that is a series 2 arm, also made by Superior PAK. This is in Hornsby council, in NSW (these trucks have since been scrapped) 3:33, This truck is a Dennis Eagle Elite 2, Euro 5, with a Superior PAK Body, and a new series 5 Superior PAK Arm. This is in Mosman, Northen Beaches NSW. 4:58 Same as first one, except collecting garden waste. 11:09, this is a Iveco Acco Euro 5, with a Superior PAK with a series 4 arm, this is in Campbelltown, NSW. Hope this info helps!
Its wednesday night and I just put our bins out 😅 This week is general rubbish (red lid) and recycling (yellow lid) One bin will be emptied around 6am and the other around 9am
The general rubbish (red lid) goes out each week. But the recycling (yellow lid) and green waste (light green lid) go out fortnightly. This week is general rubbish and recycling... Next week will be general rubbish and green waste
I do this for a living mate, we work typically 10 - 12 hours a day pick up around 1300 - 1500 bins a day. First load being around 900 second load being around 600 due to weight ect. The trucks we have are iveco acco 310’s with a superior pak body and arm on it. Love your videos mate!
I don't know about other states but it's completely random from council to council in Victoria. Mines yellow garbage, red green waste, blue for recycling. Last place I lived it was dark green for garbage, yellow recycling and blue for green waste. I've also seen purple out there too. Got to relearn it every time I move lol
Hi mate, I’ve been working on these things for 10+ years at various councils, in Victoria. I’m a Diesel Mechanic by trade. Most councils I’ve worked at, the maintenance is done every fortnight. The iveco acco, There’s a lot of things that go wrong with them, but parts are easily available and easy to work on, just stinky. The engines are usually a Cummins, Alison transmission with Rockwell diffs. Axles/brakes are the basic s-cam system. The Acco cab has had the same shape for roughly 60 years and are made from scratch at the iveco factory in Dandenong Victoria. Hope this is helpful, Rossco
That brown one is a DENNIS SPAK. Dennis is the truck and spak is the compacter. The full name of the compacter is superior pack. Superior Pack is the brand of the packing.
I live in a multi block mid-rise complex that has general waste and recycling dumpsters inside bin rooms in the carpark areas. Once a week they're rolled out to a common spot for collection and then rolled back. I have lived in a high rise complex where they'd have the residential style small bins on a carousel at the bottom of a bin chute. When one filled up, it rotated an empty one in its place. These were then emptied once a week after being rolled up to the kerbside. Although it can change from council to council (think county to county), at least generally in NSW, red means general waste, yellow means recycling and green means garden waste.
Some ppl don't space there bins hence why they fall. And most are left hand drive so the driver is closest to the gutter/curb while on the bin rout. To and from they drive on the right side
In some places the trucks have cameras to watch what is being tipped into the truck, I have heard of some trucks having digital scales to stop people loading the bins up with builders wast.
Because of an increase in the amount of lithium battery fires, they are changing to a much larger truck here in the UK that does not compact the waste, it's like a cement mixer with an internal helix that just tumbles the material away from the loading point without crushing it.
Dennis the garbage truck is on Mandolong Rad, Mosman Sydney, coming up to the famous Balmoral Beach. Fun fact, Mosman is Australia's wealthiest suburb with combined taxable income of $2.5 billion.
Ian most, if no all, garbage trucks are dual control, so are actually automatic transmission, have left and right hand steering wheels, and pedals. Admittedly the left has a few extra controls, and could even be built about 6" lower, but with that comes duplicate mirrors, so the top set are for the right, and the lower are for the left, with parabolic ones too to see the whatsits about.
Cheers to all the garbos out there! Definitely an essential job. I'm in a rural area of Tasmania and we have fortnightly collections, garbage (red lid blue bin) one week then recycling (yellow lid) the next. When it was a manual job with men picking up the bins the trucks had compactors on the back, now the robotic arms do that job so the contents go straight in the top. Cab over trucks have better visibility and manoeuvre better in the suburban streets so that's why they make such good garbage trucks, whether it be Iveco, Hino, Isuzu, Dennis or another make. Oh, and yellow number plates are New South Wales.
@13:10 - some body corporates (our take on the infamous HOA) will engage a private contractor or have their own waste agreements with the companies servicing their area and have a skip or so, usually this also means that council rates that the residents would have paid individually are consolidated/reduced in response to the reduced council services, but are made up for in corporate dues which cover this and other site services and facilities (e.g. weekly gardening, pool, community hub, secure/covered parking, etc)
Hi, The RED topped wheelie bins are general garbage collected every week. The YELLOW tops are recycling (glass, cardboard plastic & tin) collected every fortnight. The GREEN topped bins are garden waste (for mulch)also collected every alternate fortnight
In Australia the bin colours are red lid - general waste, green lid - green waste & yellow lid - recycling generally speaking but some councils have extra colours. Council will provide bins to everyone that get collected on the road like this unless an apartment building pays to have dumpsters and their own waste collection. So the long rows of bins you see are residential apartment buildings who use council bins. Office buildings have dumpsters that are looked after by private waste management companies.
I’m a Garbo as we are known over here in Australia. I mostly drive around in a Recycling Truck… and it’s a Volvo brand. All the trucks are Dual Steering… We drive on the Right hand side when driving to the start of the run, then jump over to the Left hand side when we start picking up the Bins. When the truck is full we then switch back to the Right hand side, driving to the Tip site and back to the run again, then back over to the Left side and finish the run. It sounds confusing but it’s second nature after a few weeks. Most Cities have … Red lids for General waste. Yellow lids for Recycling & Bright Green lids for Garden waste. These Trucks are definitely hard on Brakes and Gearboxes. But the Company I work for has in-house mechanics that keep things going. It’s a great job and pays quite well… 100k ( aud ) per year.
Depending of where in each part of the town, we get different garbage days. For us near the CBD of Frankston, Victoria, our day is Monday morning around 7-8am for the normal garbage (red lid) alternate weeks for Recycling (yellow lid) and green waste (lime green lid)
Did a bit of research as my area bin collections have changed over the last couples years (Im obviously not in charge of bins 😅) we have 3 bins: recycling, general waste, and FOGO (Food Organics Garden Organics). The FOGO and recycling get picked up weekly, while the general waste gets picked up every fortnight. I think it used to be the opposite until about a year ago, they're trying to get us to produce less waste
All the bins keep getting knocked over because they're put out too close together. The side of the Campbelltown truck was saying 50cm apart and very few of them were - you can see why this is needed in the video with all those closely spaced bins getting in the way of each other. Some drivers wouldn't pick them up like that if they're having a bad day
My brother is a Mechanical Engineer here in Australia & works in the design of these garbage trucks. They also manufacture them & use Iveco trucks as their base to mount the system 😊
At 11:40 the truck is picking up from an apartment block (note multiple letter boxes on wall to rear). Yellow top bins are recycling and red top are general waste. Each apartment will have their own bin. Dumpsters are used if a commercial waste collector is used but individual bins are supplied and are collected as part of the local council rates.
When our very first rural-residential suburb wheelie -bin two man garbage collection service started in the early nineteen- eighties ,the truck was an open backed tipper with a platform with grab rail at the back with one guy standing on it,he'd jump off ,grab the full wheelie-bin ,jump back on with it on his back,manualy empty it,jump back off,put it back ,flick the lid closed , then jump back on ,all the while the truck kept driving then after a while the driver would swap positions ,so that the two could relieve each other ,they were mates of mine who also played in a hotel rock band "hot-ice",Greg the singer guitarist and Brett the bassman,in Cairns ,North Queensland (tropics)it is hot all year here,they wore shorts and tank top and tennis shoes.these days its a one man fully automated beast similar to the one in your video,cheers ,Mate!!! 19:11
Hey man. I've been watching your videos for a while now and love your perspective on things. I used to work for Superior Pack in Bundaberg, which is Australia's leading garbage truck manufacturer. There is 3 main styles of garbage trucks we use. The ones in the video are called Pendulum Pack (side lift), they come in all different body sizes and cab styles. There is also rear lift and then front lift. They typically manufacture 350 to 400 units total for a year. They supply units for many different companies, and colour combos can be the individual schemes or promotional for councils. There was even a few pink side lifts at one stage.
I’m from Queensland Australia. The number plates you saw are from New South Wales Australia. The bins in the 3rd clip are green waste bins for grass and garden cuttings. The garbage day where I live is on Tuesdays. The yellow top bins are recycling and the red top bins are general waste.
There are no automatic bins on the rubbish bin here in Norway, there is still one on the back of the bin that collects and empties, and puts the rubbish bin back. Reasons are probably due to the long winters we have in Norway (5 to 6 months) And since it can fall 20cm at night, and the garbage truck comes in the morning, few people have time to shovel the lid on the garbage bin, so they tilt the lid before emptying rubbish on the truck! In recent years, many of these have become 4x4, and they are either Scania el Man, but now these are to be electrified. The same with buses!
Dennis also makes fire trucks as well. Different suburbs have different pick up days and green and yellow top bins are recycle bins where as red is rubbish. Green is normally green waste I.e. grass twigs etc.
There can be up to 5 types of 'bin' for our town. A Red lid wheelie bin (140 liters/ 37us gallons) general household garbage, yellow lid wheelie bin- recycling 240 liters/ 63 US gallons, the option of a green lid wheelie bin - for garden lawn material at extra cost, an open top 45 liter/ 12 us gallon glass recycle tub, a closed top green - food scrap bucket 23 liter / 6 us gallon. The food scraps are weekly, rest alternate weeks. The glass and food scraps are personnel hand loaded to the trucks.
The first garbage truck is an Iveco ACCO. Back in 1972 International Harvester built the first model ACCO truck ACCO being short for Australian Constructed Cab Over. The very last model ACCO was built in 2020. The grey Dennis Eagle was operating in what looks like Sydney )NSW plates) As someone that used to drive a skip truck, I worked for a company that did it all; bulk recycling, household waste, skip trucks which are usually large bins on construction sites. The colour codes on the bin lids vary from council to council. Standard one colour is general waste, yellow is usually recycling, brown is green waste (e.g. garden cuttings) Garbage trucks have an hour meter on them, like mining machines. Service intervals are at "_________ hours" If there's a long row of bins like this, it means that it's likely that each is for an individual apartment in a block of them. ACCOs are usually powered by Cummins 6 cylinder engines paired to an Allison auto transmission. The trucks with the forks in front are the ones that empty dumpsters. Generally they just call the back of them the body. Inside, they're not just a large hopper. A blade moves to the back of the body, pushing the garbage back and making room for the next dumpster. The residential trucks have a similar blade. I did hear the story of two "criminal masterminds" that thought a dumpster was the best place to hide from mall security. A bad idea for two reasons: 1. You'll stink when you get out 2. You never know when it's going to be emptied Unfortunately for these two idiots, that scenario happened. The operator didn't see them, and tipped them into the back. It gets even worse for them. The next dumpster on this truck's run was a police station. As he pulled up, and was about to lower the forks, he heard banging from inside the body. He knocked on the back door of the police station and explained the situation. He opened the service door of the body to the sigh of four police surrounding them. "Well, well well," said one of the cops, "we've been looking for you two."
So; The first council featured with Iveco "Acco" cabs is Hornsby Council, the trucks looked at in this clip were Ivevo Acco cabs with Superior Pak Series 2 bodies. The second council with the grey trucks was Northern Beaches Council, using Dennis Eagle cabs with Superior Pak Series 5 bodies. The last council looked at was Campbelltown, and indeed was a unit line. In Australia the trucks are known as "dual control" meaning that they can be steered and driven from both seats in the cab; on the right for regular driving, and on the left for collection so as you can see the bins.
I am pretty happy in Finland our city's recycler got trucks based on hybrid electric scania (busses I guess). They even have bus style low floor cabin and door. They are so silent you don't even notice them visiting right outside window. We have 5 different material bins and drivers jump out all the time to handle the bins to lifters at back of truck. We have them spread out to 14 day cycle making quiet trucks really nice. And then comes the ol garbage truck with old volvo diesel and noisy lifts. Can't miss it at 5 am once a week.
Back in the late 80's the guy who ran the Mandurah WA rubbish Tip had a shack at the entrance to Tip that had a hand written sign on it, that said "Director Of Garbology"
Hi mate. I am a garbage driver, the trucks are dual steer vehicles. Left hand drive for collection and right hand drive when finished. Can not stay on left to drive to dump as it's illegal. Joystick controlled for pick up bins and 6 cameras on truck and a camera in the bowl. To see what people put into there bins. Making sure it's not dangerous ie. Gas bottles and other explosive materials. Our system is blue for rubbish, yellow for recycling and green for food and garden waste.
The green top bins are usually for green waste that goes to composting (lawn clippings, food waste, etc). Red top bins are general waste and yellow top bins are for recycling (cans, bottles, cardboard,etc).
Little bit of history, at least for here in Western Australia. We call them rubbish trucks and wheelie bins. Up until around 2011, the red lidded bin was dark green, and a lot of the older houses still have the dark green lid. The rubbish wheelie bin has been in operation here in Western Australia since the early '90s, sometime around 1992 I was seeing them in Perth as a kid. Back then, the rubbish truck had a driver and 2 blokes on the back of it, the truck would pull up, the 2 blokes on the back would jump off and grab a bin from either side of the road, the 2 arms would then empty the bins. Then sometime about 10yrs later, the 2 arms merged into a single arm on the left side of the truck and the 2 blokes disappeared having just the driver. Some parts of WA still have the 2 bin system, but most areas are moving (or have already moved) to the 3 bin system, the town I live in, we moved to the 3 bin system around 10yrs ago. In a 3 bin system, the red lidded bin and yellow lidded bin alternative every 2nd week. The 3 bin system consists of: 1 red lidded bin for general waste (Rubbish bin), 1 yellow lidded bin for recycling, and 1 lime green lidded bin for FOGO (Food organics, Garden organics). The town I live in, bins are emptied every Friday, the FOGO bin is every single week, with rubbish and recycling alternating. Every single rubbish collection day (with the red lidded bin), the driver has a habit of taking all the bins in the neighbourhood for a walk... I always find my bin several meters down the road from where I put it. The other 2 bins never have this problem :)
My bins go out Wednesday evening, for Thursday morning collection. Every week 2 bins go out RED LID = General Waste + YELLOW LID = Recycling (week 2, and 4) or GREEN LID = Garden Waste (week 1, and 3) A block of apartments will generally have a set of bins for each apartment.
As a engineer garbage trucks are pretty much top tear with trucks (well i guess special haulers are above). The reason is that hardly anyone want to work with them, and truck drivers are even at best times hard to get hold of. So they demand loads of technology to make the work simpler. And there are also a lot of demands on garbage trucks there are not on normal trucks. Plenty of aux power, good acceleration and stooping, and now days they also need to be silent because they often work early in the morning (i don´t work with trucks, i work with rail-systems) Garbage trucks was really early with automatic gearbox and those arms are semi robotized. They typically have sort of a homing so the driver don´t have to stop exactly the right position, they can move like 20 cm on each direction. Strange, In Sweden where i live we have a RF-ID tag on the garbage cans, so when they tip it in the garbage truck,the truck automatically open the right compartment. There is a few variants of it. The RF-ID tag is also used for billing, because you get billed per KG of garbage.
Green bins are for green waste(vegetation, food scraps, etc.). Yellow bins are recyclable materials, and red or blue bins are for other household rubbish.
In Norway we have the old style garbage trucks with 2-3 people picking up the bins inside the Gates. We have 4 different bins + plastic bags for plastic waste. The food waste bin and the ordinary waste bin is collected every 2. Week. The paper bin and plastic waste once a month and the glass and metal bin every second month. The food waste they compost into gas and the trucks use it. All kinds of euro trucks, but mostly Scania and Volvos. Thanks to all the renovators out there😊
Dennis is a UK coach builder, that buys various manufacturers’ chassis and power units, and fits coach, bus and other specialist bodies, including refuse truck.
In the Northern Suburbs of South Australia the colour red is used to indicate garbage the colour yellow is used to indicate recycling and the colour green indicates green waste for making compost. In the southern suburbs the same colour scheme is used with the exception that a very bright blue is used the indicate recycling instead of the yellow.
The last truck was from Campbelltown which is in western Sydney. Different councils use either contractors for all collections and others use contractors for recycling and their own for general waste.
Iveco is an italian manufacturer, they took over International trucks that were made in Melbourne, they specialise in rubbish trucks. the trucks use an USA drivetrain, cummins diesel allison auto. The bodies are locally made. The dennis is a UK specialist rubbish truck maker. The rubbish trucks are dual control, single operator. Lately Mercedes and Isuzu have made in roads into the sector. Our heavt trucks are mostly European, with the B trains and road trains mainly being USA custom trucks. kenworth has an assembley plant in Melbourne, they can go up to 120tonnes.
Yes mate red bins are standard garbage, yellow is for glass, plastic and cardboard, green is for food scraps and green waste. These vehicles are dual drive. They might use the left hand drive to pick up bins but switch over to right side to head to the tip to dump it.
On the NSW Mid-North Coast we have three 240 litre (63.4gal US) bins, red (putrescible), green (compostable), and yellow (recyclable). Thursday night is bin night (Fri morn p/up) and green is emptied every week, while red and yellow alternate. Garden stuff grows pretty quick around here and it doesn't take long to fill the green bin.
In NSW and VICTORIA, yellow lid bins are recycling, green is food and garden waste, and red lids are for normal indoor bin waste. We also collect 10 cent bottles and cans to get cashback.
Where I am in Australia, there a company that uses an odd type of truck with a split system where the recycling bin has a divider inside that splits the waste into two compartments which are emptied into two separate compartments in the truck. This is not the oddest thing with the truck, it’s a side loader that doesn’t have the traditional claw, but uses a fork an clamp device and sprays a little water jet to open the lid of the bin before emptying into the truck. It’s indeed fairly interesting to watch, but I’m having a hard time finding CZcams link so someone in here who may read this may know what I’m writing about beside the company that uses them is SOLO which is mostly all over NSW/VIC.
Apartment building's caretaker would be taking that long row of bins out of the bin room, to the kerb the night before, making sure the truck has access to them. Or in my last apartment building's case, being underground bin storage room, we had a mini truck back up through the underground carpark to the bin storage and the caretaker would take bins out one at a time for the truck to empty. Alot easier that one.
They're not always skilled - mums recycling bin went missing last week, council called her today to tell her it was a trainee driving the truck and her wheelie bin got thrown into the truck! They're sending her a new bin lol
Roflmao
RIP Mums bin
Woops! 😂
Ours left our recycling bin a quarter full this morning 🙄
Had 1 get crushed once lol came home 1 day and it was split on all 4 corners lol
My neighbors 1 got sent over her fence last week cause he dropped it from like 3 meters high 😂
Some of them are shocking...
@@5lcalais1 Had a friend who came home to a flat bin. Truck ran over it. 😂
Hey dude ! I work for the Cleanaway business, trucks I drive get a check over every 6 weeks for maintenance, when they are getting work done there’s always a spare truck to complete the days the trucks down !
Very cool 🎉thanks for sharing that 😎
Where I live if a truck breaks down they have to wait for one to come on the barge from the mainland. But nobody really cares. Life is slower here.
They usually service them after you're finished for the day in the cities, but they will be taken off the road if faulty, servicing every 350 hours or so too.
Hi Ian. Unlike the USA where I believe most garbage collection is done by private companies and you get billed, in Australia the collection of waste is the responsibility of local government. Land owners pay mandatory council rates and garbage collection is included in these. Depending on the council, your rates can also include 3 free kerbside pickups a year (where you can get rid of big items).
Still private contractors.
@@bloozee yes but big difference. Responsibility is on the local government to contract them.
@@bloozee Not in all councils. My old council back in Sydney still employs their own garbos… and still have men running with the truck to put the bins onto the rear platform & then back to the kerb. It means those trucks only go down a street once, because they are clearing both sides at the same time.
My current regional council has only ONE kerbside pickup for big items. But my old council in Sydney had FOUR (one a quarter).
I get 6 curbsides a year, well 1 pickup is classed as a caged box trailer, but you can do 2 or 3 in one go if you want
DENNIS is a British brand. In Australia and New Zealand the garbage trucks are dual controlled, so they are both right and left hand drive. You're supposed to by law drive to the area you're picking up from from the right hand side drivers seat, then switch to the left hand side drivers seat when actually picking up the bins. Of course you always see the drivers on the LH side because who's gonna keep switching back and forth right! The back part of the truck is called a compactor.
Dennis also make fire brigade Trucks
Yep, I never see the driver in the right hand seat where I live in South Australia.
@@catey62 legally it isnt actually that specific
@@jaqjaq101 No, its not. we have imported classic cars here that are left hand drive only and they are able to be fully registered and driven.
@@catey62 my point, the law isn't that specific
You can not MODIFY a car to be left hand drive (there are obvious exceptions)
But the doesn't state that you can't drive on the left hand side
Its not just garbos
Street sweepers
Even some mobile cranes are left hand drive
I work with GPS systems and I thought you'd be interested to know that many of these trucks have GPS systems in them to show which route they're doing obviously but also things like bin lifts are recorded which goes into things like maintenance schedules, driver productivity, and customer service. If a bin is not put out for emptying the driver presses a button to record that plus to take a photo to show that the bin was not there to be emptied - so if the customer claims that their bin was not emptied there is proof that it wasn't there. There are other things that get recorded too such as pinpointing if an overhanging branch is becoming problematic they can record the location so that the tree can be trimmed back. There are several other features available for vehicles with these systems.
Our local council has also fitted out their trucks with pot hole sensors, to collate those data points for better city street maintenance. When the bins are emptied into the truck, AI scans the waste to ensure citizens are correctly placing items in the allocated bins for recycled, green and general waste. All this is aimed at reducing the overhead associated with incorrect waste disposal, as generally sanitation is one of the highest line items of expenditure within our local council, i.e. public money that could be better spent elsewhere.
Aussie garbo here.
Correct on the joystick control. Some have one more like a mushroom, a lot of them have more of a broomhandle control. The whole system runs off hydraulics.
Being that the trucks when empty start at around 13 tonnes (and our legal max in these HR units is 23 tonnes), the brakes definitely do wear out quicker than usual. And a lot of parts do get a lot more hammered causing them to brake or wear out much quicker.
Our trucks are dual side control and have a PTO switch over. You drive from the right side of the truck whenever you're not doing the collection aspect, and operate from the left for the collection (all the hydraulic controls are on the left side). The trucks have steering wheels and pedals on both sides, you just manually switch over the controls to which side you'll be on.
Different colour lids depict what's inside the bins. Where I work red is garbage/ general waste, yellow is recycling, green is greenwaste, and they've recently rolled out glass only in some areas and from what I've seen they come with purple lids.
I'm currently in a 2019 Volvo FE for my daily routes and I do greenwaste. The council I collect for also has an uncommon collection where greenwaste is weekly and the recycling/ garbage alternate fortnightly.
If you have any other questions you wish to ask, I'm happy to answer whatever. Also if you wish to see how the interior is all set up and how things work, I can show you.
Also RE trying to describe the area of the truck that holds the garbage, it's generally referred to as the "body". Basic, but that seems to be the common name among garbage companies.
Thank You so much for this, excellent info.
I’d like to stay in touch on this, email me at IWrocker92@gmail.com Perhaps with garbage truck in the subject so I know. 🎉
Hey Ian, I'm in Canberra, we have 3 types of wheely bins Red Lid 140 Litre capacity for general household garbage, Yellow Lid 240 Litre capacity for recyclables &, Green Lid 240 Litre capacity for Garden waste like grass clippings & weeds & prunings. The Red Lid Bin is collected each week in my suburb on Monday morning, the Yellow Lid and Green Lid bins are collected on alternate weeks also on Monday morning. You have a great channel & content, keep it up.
That's exactly the same for Perth.
Hi, I'm from Epsom, Bendigo, Victoria. My bins are the same colours as yours and get picked up Monday also. Yellow and green bins alternate. Thankfully I have gardeners on green bin week. If in doubt check what the neighbours have out.
@@JustJokes-bw4fs Here in Mandurah we still only have 2 bins, general (Green lid) and recycling (Yellow lid). At my place we get the general garbage collected every Thursday and recycling every second Thursday. Just around the corner it's Wednesdays
here in brisbane, specifically brisbane city council, all out bins are 140L, and you have to order a green bin, which get emptied every other week. you can also order a 240 L regular or recycling bin if you require it.
Same for where I live in Perth
At Christmas time in the old days, You'd leave beer out for the garbos
Most houses have 3 or 4 Wheelie Bins, one of each colour for specific waste types:
Red lid = General Waste (usually smaller bin than recycling ones to encourage trash sorting)
Yellow lid = Any product with the recycling symbol on it (these logos are regulated to help people sort recycling)
Green lid = Garden Waste & Organic Kitchen scraps (not all homes get Green bins depends on area [i.e: apartments shouldn't need these] & some councils don't offer this bin at all but most do)
Blue lid = Paper/Cardboard (rare only some places have these bins, where you don't have this bin you would put these items in the yellow bin)
Purple lid = Glass (rare only some places have these bins, where you don't have this bin you would put these in the yellow bin)
Bin collection is managed by local city councils but the colour coding is standardised nationally (albeit not fully rolled out to all regions).
Collection days vary but most Red bins get collected weekly, Yellow & Green bins fortnightly but on alternate rosters so one week Red & Green go out then next Red & Yellow never all 3.
Blue & Purple are usually every 4 weeks but again these are rare bins & pretty new additions so schedule varies wildly by council area.
Some areas blue is landfill to.
Our bins are big green lid garden waste, little green bin general waste and yellow lid recycling. My daughters is green little bin, rust coloured garden waste and blue lid recycling. Note she is in the next suburb within a different council area
Most of Sydney and up here in Brisbane only have 2 bins, red and yellow. So you can't say most!!!
@@marthanewsome6375 Hard to cover all suburbs but I checked it out before posting the comment most is an accurate statement by population served according to government stats.
Brisbane City council for instance offers green bins, I live in Syd & have lived in a few different Sydney council areas all of which have offered green bins, though like I said not every council does yet but seems a majority do according to government data.
As I mentioned though not all homes get a green bin even where they exist as it depends on council rules like garden size or whether the home is an apartment, terrace, single house etc or other factors like tree coverage (for example some homes even get two green bins in some areas of Syd) or some places you only get one if you pay a fee to upgrade to having the 3rd bin for green waste.
It would definitely be easier if everything was nationally the same hopefully one day soon! :)
@ Thomas P here in Victoria in my LGA we need to buy our green waste bins
You can often tell by the colour of the lid on the bin.
Red lid - rubbish
Yellow lid - recycling
Green lid - garden waste
It's different for everyone as well
for me it's:
Yellow is rubbish
Blue is recycling
Green is garden waste
I have also seen purple bins but I don't know what they are
Different in different areas. Ours are blue lid for recycling, light green for garden waste and dark green (same as the bin body) for general rubbish.
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@@blueblurr4526 Purple is often earn and return and private pick ip
Green bin for green matter, yellow for recycling and red for general waste. Green bin picked up weekly, red and yellow two weekly. Mine is 7.00am Friday morning - a couple of times I have forgotten to put my bin out on time and they circled back to collect - they are the best!
We also have a purple bin lid for glass waste. Macedon Ranges, Victoria.
Some municipalities greenwaste bin is red topped. I'm from a green top greenwaste bin area and thought it was ubiquitous until recently. Just makes sense...green for greenwaste. Our general waste bin in green toped too, but the same colour green as the bin, whereas the greenwaste top is a bright green. But yeah yellow for recycling seems standard.
@@wallyvandenberg9899 sad thing is no matter how much effort we put in we still send half to landfill.
For what it's worth, I put the bins out Monday night for Tuesday morning collection. Red-lid general waste weekly and larger yellow-lid recyclables fortnightly (every other week). :)
I was going to answer several questions, but I see they've all been covered in the comments.
Taiwan's garbage trucks are worth a look. They come most days. Due to the lack of space for bins in many streets, lanes and alleys, they play music, signifying their approach giving people time to get their rubbish and take it out to wait for the truck. Trucks usually. The yellow ones play music, and a white recycling one follows.
I'm pretty sure ours is the opposite general waste every second week, recycling weekly which is funny (kinda) cause the recycling bin is at least double the size of the other
I was in a 6 story apartment building, about 80 apartments, we had 30 general waste red bins, about 18 yellow recycle bins. Well it's easier to move a small bin than have a large dumpster on site which you'd need about 4 of them, then access for the bigger truck. Most have underground car parks and storage room easy access from the lift, no viable to put dumpsters in.
Yellow base plate colour is NSW.
The suburban areas do vary by regions but many suburbs tend to such "green" scene in many places.
Most bin provisions are three, with four in some, and becoming standard for many suburbs now. While there are variations, I will mention my area bin lid colours as example. RED is trash destined to land fill, YELLOW is recycled items, with soon a BLUE to be added for specially recycled Glass, the other GREEN lid is for garden wastes, that goes into composting, but newly being brought in is composting kitchen/food wastes to be added to the GREEN lid bin.
In my case the weekly night/day is Thursday, with RED each week, and YELLOW, GREEN alternate weeks. How the new BLUE bin for glass will be handled is not clear yet. Different parts of a council region will be assigned different days, so the trucks need only cover partial suburb areas. Different trucks handle the 'waste' RED and recycle YELLOW and the GREEN garden wastes.
Unbelievable is some councils in trying to save costs want/are changing all bin pickup to fortnightly, to much objection by residents. Normally you have choice of 120L and 240L bins, and get charged by volume chosen as part of annual rates charged by councils. Again some are or want to change to separate charge for rubbish collection, no longer included in rates based on assessed property value. Due to inflating council rates, state government introduced caps on annual rate increases, and councils are trying to sidestep the capping of rate rises, by separate charging for trash removal.
Further we normally have free one or two annual bulky household waste collections for say old toys, furniture, appliances, but not old tyres, engines, waste chemical, building scraps, concrete etc Fir some of those there are special days you can deliver such disallowed wastes to suited collection points, or deliver to waste collection sites against charges. The free kerbside household bulky collection is however volume limited to several cubic meter volume, and must be manually moveable by the collection workers who come by with a truck. You must in my area get a collection booked with a provided tag label, to be attached to the pile, that must only be put out at roadside grass strip no more than 24 hrs before booked collection. Taking things from other people's pile is generally illegal, say broken TV, Computer, Appliances, since recycle value assists covering the free collection system, so taking such deposited rubbish is treated as theft from the council. Many areas still have a general one or two hard wastes collections for areas within the council, where all in a given part of suburb all at same time put out their bulk rubbish, not by specific booking such. There are variations in all waste handling across the many towns, suburbs and areas around Australia.
Hope the above adds sufficient explanation to clarify a bit more than explained in that video on garbage trucks. Always be aware there are local variations of all matters rubbish.
One final point, in sink garbage disposals as frequently seen in USA are not used here that I am aware of, at if so very rarely. No kitchen wastes are sent down the sewage system by being groundup and flushed away.
Most Australian garbologist (Garbo) trucks became the now known “One arm bandits” back in the early 1990’s, they put a lot of blokes on the rubbish pile.
Now my shitty council wants to bring in 4 bloody garbage bins, I usually put the bins out on Sunday night for Monday morning collection but now I’m getting confused. Glass recycling is once a month, regular recycling is once a fortnight, household waste is weekly & green waste is I don’t know anymore.
Cheers
Lol 😁
Here in Brissie we only have the 3 bins, red lids for general waste (but mine has a dark green lid because the bin is so old) and yellow lid for recycling (every second week), then the lime green lids for garden waste which are the opposite week to the recycling. the garden waste bins are optional, you have to request them from council and when you do they bump your rates up $50/quarter, so I don't have one, I'd only be able to fill it once or twice a year so it's not worth it, actually I've only seen about 3 in my street so I guess most people feel the same way.
@@daveamies5031 Here on the Gold Coast the council is going to make the green waste bin compulsory and charge us more, of course.
@@ianrobertson2282 Bummer, I wonder if you could argue against it if you don't produce green waste? I don't have a "lawn" to mow and very slow growing "drought tolerant" plants, (I've not once in 20 years pruned my Aloe-Vera plants 🤣)
My council has a 3 bin system and it’s a pita!
In NSW red lids are for general waste, yellow lid is for recycling, green lids are for green waste eg tree and grass clippings and different trucks collect specific waste. Multiple garbage bins in a line are from apartments or town house developments. Garbage collections are under local council control. Each local council area employs different companies to do the collections, hence the different livery.
same in brisbane it red or gray for normal waste, Green for garden waste, Yellow for recycling
In Victoria we have the same although they are introducing bins with purple lids for glass recycling
In Scotland, we still have Binmen that load bins onto a mechanism on the back of a bin lorry.
They do that in the Hobart CBD too where it's not feasible for the non-skip addresses to put their bins all the way out
Same here in Germany. Guess Europe with it's small and twisted roads doesn't lend itself to this type of half-automatic collection. They definitely couldn't get my bins with the trucks in the video.
The bin men used to be a way of fitness training for footballers back on the day.
I had to wait until 8:50-something for you to finally notice....
And NO, not JUST Left-hand Drive- they're Dual Control (D.C).
Yep, they swing both ways! ;)
I think he îs sick in this video
Most garbage trucks in this part of the world have dual control driving so you can drive on either side of the vehicle
Dunno about other states but here in WA you are only allowed to use the left hand side while operating the truck, collecting bins. If you drive to or from the depot, to the tip, etc, you must use the right side. Just some useless trivia for the algorithm ;)
@@timjohnun4297 I think it's the same here in Queensland too
@@timjohnun4297 same as nsw
Garbage day in my town (Finley, New South Wales) is Tuesday morning.
My area has strange bins.
Instead of Red Lids for regular trash, and Yellow for Recycling, both our bins have yellow lids. However the bin itself is black for regular trash and blue for recycling.
My town doesn't have garden waste bins (green lids) or Glass bins (purple lids) or paper bins (blue lids)
Hi Ian! Not sure if anyone has already commented this or not, but living here in Queensland we have always called these rubbish bins "Wheelie Bins"
So that first Iveco is the last of a truck model known as an Acco. The Acco name is an acronym for Australian constructed cab-over, made in Victoria.The cab has undergone cosmetic changes, but the original square shape hasn’t changed for decades. Iveco took over International Trucks in Australia in 1992.
Acco is a acronym for Australian C-Line Cab Over
The first International ACCO’s from the sixties were AACO short for Australian Army Cab Over as originally were built for the Australian Army by International Australia with the venerable 282 ci petrol sixes and were built also for the civilian market in C-Line etc where they gained the nickname of “Butter Boxes” in a range of configurations and capacities in petrol sixes, 345 & 392 ci Inter V8’s to diesels of all types over the years to Cummins and Detroits in Prime movers, the later or 2nd generation comprised a comprehensive specification and models up to the ACCO 3070-A’s with 903 Cummins in this basic body style that lasted right up to the IVECO’s, always led to believe that ACCO stood for “Australian Chassis Cab Over” and don’t forget there was also a narrower and lighter model nicknamed the “Baby Acco” in 345 V8 petrols and small diesels and also 4WD versions for the CFA tankers of the day and don’t forget International Australia’s Atkinsons with the basic ACCO cabs but with all the fruit and in line haul interstate prime movers also a lot with Detroit power back in the day
@@jamesgovett3225 the civilian derivative of the army International's the venerable C1300, and others, were known as a Crayfish.... all shell no guts.
Uncle almost went broke running ACCOs, bloody shitboxes in the 70-80's
@@jamesgovett3225 I always refer to the early ACCOs as chook house ACCOs
I am one of the enthusiasts that films these trucks and I have to say this is brilliant. Our trucks are amazing to watch and our Superior Pak units were the ones you saw. Others that are very popular are custom made, for example our oldest contractor Solo, who builds custom bodies. The arms are joystick operated and the "bins" as we call them are picked up using that joystick. The operating is pretty unique; up, shake the hell out of it and flog it down. Definitely chose the best channels and would love to see a part two. Well done.
Hi Ian, I work for cleanaway in Vic.
I Look after the East of Vic in the fleet department for the Vic Solids Waste.
Our trucks are maintained every 350 engine hours for service or any asset 5 years or older will undergo an inspection every 75 days regardless of it does the hours or not.
Also operators can submit a defect notice on their post-trip which needs to be signed off and cleared prior to the truck been returned to by a qualified mechanic.
Cleanaway is Australia's largest waste collection business that is listed on the ASX list. (Stock exchange)
The Dennis-Eagle Truck (which is made in the Uk) - yellow lic/rego plates, will be in New South Wales (NSW)
One reason Iveco are used, is that they can provide a dual steer kit, which is relatively easy to retrofit to the vehicle. The unit shown, is actually based on the once Australian built International Acco. We can't legally drive the vehicle in left hand drive configuration, except for when it is actually working, picking up the bins (Same applies for truck based road sweepers). Another popular brand, used in South Australia, is the British Dennis trucks, (the grey one) more well known for building fire trucks in the UK. The whine sound, is the PTO driven hydraulic pump. Usually, in most states, red top is general landfill, yellow top is recyclables, and green top is green (garden) waste.
Not sure if it has the same name in the US, but the big "tin box" on the back, holding the rubbish, is called the Hopper in Australia.
The first shots are taken in NSW (yellow plates) - looks like the northern suburbs of Sydney where I live. Red bins are domestic waste, blue are paper and cardboard recycling and yellow are plastic, tins and bottle recycling. In leafy suburbs we also have larger green bins for garden vegetation recycling.
Just been reading all the comments. Who thought garbage day and garbage bins would be so interesting. Well done Ian, good conversation starter. Never knew I could be interested in garbage trucks, but found this all very interesting and good to learn. PS we live on a very small island out from Brisbane, because we only have a few neighbours in our street, we have to put our bins across the road as the truck man only wants to come down our street once! We have no trucks on our island, they come via barge, from the mainland, so over every Thursday to empty the regular household waste and every second week another truck comes to empty the recycling. They drive like crazy as racing to make the barge back to the mainland with all our rubbish
My brother in law was an old school garbologist in the north of Canberra. He did the running and lifting etc. Very very hard on his body though. I'm glad the trucks are better now.
Nice and early on a minus eight degree (Celsius) winter morning in Canberra would have been fun. At the least the running would have kept him warm.
@@optimusmaximus9646You've got that right. He always wore shorts no matter how cold though!
You want to see them reach between cars to grab the bins... They're usually auto gearbox with dual control... The Dennis company was an Australian company who coach builders, way back. I didn't realise they did this type of work too. The number plates are from NSW and the bay looked like it was part of Sydney harbour. You didn't comment on the Aussie rear loader has a 100% Electric truck sign on its side. Interesting, I didn't know that...
Yes , maintenance on these things is very intensive , the garbage run is hard on the vehicles , i had a mate that worked in the maintenance section and he said they require constant maintenance to keep them on the road .
I had a friend who did the same here in Melbourne. he ended up with a stuffed shoulder from working on the garbage trucks.
In most councils in NSW, there are three bins. Red lid - general waste. Yellow lid - recycling for paper, glass, tin, aluminium foil, cardboard. Green lid - green waste like grass clippings, tree trimmings and soiled food containers. In my Council, the red & green bins are weekly (my red is smaller than the yellow or green bins) & the yellow is collected once a fortnight. Depending on where you live, will determine your garbage collection day and your fortnightly cycle. My bins go out Wednesday night for collection on Thursday.
My sister lives in a complex of a mixture of townhouses and villas and they have a dumpster for general rubbish, but each home has their own yellow recycling bin. They don’t have green waste bins as they have a contractor employed by strata to do the lawns and garden maintenance and he takes all the green waste away.
13:00 it’s funny how some council areas won’t pick up your bin if it isn’t spaced atleast 50cms apart. It would be funny to see how far these bins would stretch with this gap haha. Love ya work
I had a sticker put on my bin years ago telling me bins should be 1m apart and next time I could get a fine (thankfully never did) but I think that is more likely 1m from cars/trees/power poles etc. I'm in Mt Gambier, SA.
For my property there will soon be four bins to be put out in some sort of rotation. There is the usual garbage bin, the green waste bin, the recycling bin for all things other than glass and then there will be a recycling bin for glass only. For a rural family member they have garbage picked up every two weeks and recycling picked up the opposite weeks.
Green bins all over Australia are for leaves, twigs etc, yellow bins are for recycling, red bins are for landfill. Each council has its own collection trucks provided via contracts with various company's, who perform truck maintenance on behalf of each council.
The Australian Garbologist is a young student who films garbage trucks as a hobby, mostly in the suburbs of Sydney. There is a community of "Garbos" across the country ranging in age from 8 years to adult and every age in between. The US also has the same community, and it is interesting to see the differences between our 2 countries regarding the methods of collecting and the vehicles used. All of these young people post their videos on CZcams and The Australian Garbologist (Daman) is one of the best. The long bin lines are from apartment complexes.
Much appreciated John
@The Australian Garbologist No worries, Daman 👍 I was so proud of you when he highlighted your channel. This is about as good as it gets for promoting your channel.
Hi john @@aussiejohn5835
@@TheAustralianGarbologist hi daman
I think every street has the one pisshead because most of the recycling bins make no noise, but the one house you hear just glass bottles lol
It's Friday here.
Ian, the Iveco is an ACCO, basically an International Harvester that was rebranded... the same way that Sterling Trucks looked identical to a Ford Louisville.
The second truck, the battleship grey, is a Dennis - a British company, a little like Oshkosh, in that they only specialty build. They make dustcarts (garbage trucks) and fire engines, they formerly made buses too. You'll note that it's technically mid-engined, rather than COE, the cab is actually low floor and ahead of the front axle.
IVECO acquired International Trucks Australia in 1992.
The last IVECO ACCO was built in the Dandenong plant in mid 2022.
It's always fun to put your bin out on the wrong day, some people on their way home see it and put theirs out 😂
Or sometimes there is criminals who will leave their bin out for almost 4 days after bin collection
@@kingstongrigg4029 Some people are chronically ill and may not be able to bring their bin in promptly
@@kingstongrigg4029 criminals? 😆😅🤣
@@kingstongrigg4029 They may not necessarily be criminals. Perhaps they just like to go against the mainstream and live their lives dangerously. Ha ha!
International Harvester Australia started in the early 20th Century (I want to say 1916 but I’d have to look it up to be sure) and had a long history in Australia. Around 1970 ish they shared cabs and things with Dodge (Chrysler Aust) trucks. I think the ACCO was the most famous Aussie Inter. There are at least a couple of people collecting and restoring International trucks here in Oz.
Also my local council uses Iveco ACCOs for the garbage duties.
Evan I have some parts . an Acco was $ 34,000 in the late 70s By the way Iveco is Fiat
And ACCO actually stands for Australian Constructed Cab Over. My old man has a AACO Australian Assemblied Cab Over. The difference between the Inters and Dodge Trucks of the same vintage is Dodge have hydraulic clutch system and the Inters have mechanical clutch system
All I can say is that Iveco Europe doesn't use this type of cab design. Looks a lot like an Australian home brew.
@@stanislavczebinski994 As an Australian who has grown up with my dad owning many different year models of the ACCO, yes they are a home grown design that changed very little from their inception in the 1960s to their demise in approximately 2020
The acco is fully dead now 😔
3 bins in our council area. Red Lid- rubbish. Yellow Lid- mixed recycling. Green Lid - compostable organics. Rubbish day is Wed morning for us and Green/Yellow are alternate weeks. Honestly the red bib could be too with the very minimal load it gets after the other two are filled.
Normal garbage day in my town is tuesday every two weeks. The tuesday in between is plastic garbage early in the morning and paper later the same day. Food waste day is on wednesday and glass is on friday. Greeting from Germany. They use different trucks for different garbage. But we mostly got the trucks where you put garbage in at the back. No robot arms in my town. Usually there are three workers on each truck. One driver and two guys who grab the bins and empty it and put it back. If something drops on the street they take a broom and clean it. They have to close the lits and put the bin back from where they took them.
Interesting to hear that, thank You 😎🎉
Most local govt (councils) subcontract their rubbish collection to a private company. These trucks normally collect the regular waste (red lids) on their first drive by, then the recycling bins on the next run. Yellow is paper and aluminium etc, purple (in some locations) for glass and green for garden/food scraps. Red bins are done weekly, but most recycling is fortnightly.
Our council also offers “hard rubbish” collections twice per year x 3 cubic metres of things like furniture, fridges, old bikes, etc. for these types of collection they often use the older styled truckers and throw everything into the back compactor section. But there are occasion where a second truck with a flatbed and cage around it is also used. The council will also collect larger garden prunings, oversized garden items that will not fit into your regular waste bin.
Some councils are switching to fortnightly garbage and weekly food organics. This will become more common over time
The area early with the hills and water... It looks like eastern Sydney with the Sydney heads (North Head, near Manly, in the distance). Video is looking north, the ocean is to the east (right) - you can just see the (Sydney Harbour) entrance when the video is paused and Ian is talking about yellow plates.
Light green lid = green waste (compost)
Yellow lid = recycling
Red Lid = General waste (land fill)
At least its like that here in WA in most suburbs.
I also think that the garbo's ability to leave the lid open on the bin is inversly proprortional to the weather for that day. IE: Lots of rain and storms = loads of lids open so they fill with water, otherwise most of them closed. It seems to be the way it goes in my neighbourhood, on sunny days virtually no lids left open, on rainy days every lid is left open, and sometimes they balance the bin at 45 degrees leaning on its lid for support.
Wednesday morning for me too, one week is recycling and green/organic waste, and the next week its general waste and green/organic waste.
8:52 Look at the front of the truck, they are all dual control, meaning they have a full set of driver controls on both the left and right side of the cab (you can see the steering wheel in the other side of the cab if you look carefully, just near the windscreen wiper where you see over the dash and out the side window). Its the same way with some learner driver cars although they usually dont have two steering wheels, just dual sets of peddles. Or at least they did when I was learning to drive.
The reason for left hand control is they have a joystick to control the claw in the cab and a camera monitor showing the compactor, and they can look in thier mirror or over thier shoulder to grab the bin. there has been occasions when a garbo has emptied a bin, looked in the camera view as the bin is emptying found a child either hiding in the bin or dumped if it was an infant, they have an emergency stop button in the cab that immediately cuts power to the compactor and claw so they can jump out if they see something odd or dangerous. Its been on the news not often but at least twice that I can remember, once I remember it was a litter of kittens dumped, the other time it was a young child that was either hiding/stuck in the bin or been dumped by some careless person.
Lids are like that here in Queensland too. I think it might be Aus wide (all though my neighbour has a black lid instead of red for general waste). Where I live our bins are emptied Friday morning).
same as VIC
@@TheSpankingMonkeys Nope, different colours in different locales. General is Blue here and Recycling Yellow
im also in WA, Perth, but our dark green = general waste, yellow = recycling, red = green waste for composting. I guess it varies from each council
In Sweden we also generaly have several bins (depends on where you live, there is two kind of systems) but they have RF-id in steed, so all bins are picked up with the same truck, then the truck knows what compartment to put the trash in. Some trucks have up to 6 compartments.
In some areas there is in steed a bag system so depending on the color of the bag its different garbage. So there is a machine sorting it at the recycling center.
Hi, Nice video, just thought I'd give a bit more info on thr trucks and where they are.
1:47, this trucks is a Iveco Acco Euro 4 Truck, with the body made by Superior PAK and that is a series 2 arm, also made by Superior PAK. This is in Hornsby council, in NSW (these trucks have since been scrapped)
3:33, This truck is a Dennis Eagle Elite 2, Euro 5, with a Superior PAK Body, and a new series 5 Superior PAK Arm. This is in Mosman, Northen Beaches NSW.
4:58 Same as first one, except collecting garden waste.
11:09, this is a Iveco Acco Euro 5, with a Superior PAK with a series 4 arm, this is in Campbelltown, NSW.
Hope this info helps!
Its wednesday night and I just put our bins out 😅
This week is general rubbish (red lid) and recycling (yellow lid) One bin will be emptied around 6am and the other around 9am
The general rubbish (red lid) goes out each week. But the recycling (yellow lid) and green waste (light green lid) go out fortnightly.
This week is general rubbish and recycling... Next week will be general rubbish and green waste
I do this for a living mate, we work typically 10 - 12 hours a day pick up around 1300 - 1500 bins a day.
First load being around 900 second load being around 600 due to weight ect.
The trucks we have are iveco acco 310’s with a superior pak body and arm on it.
Love your videos mate!
Red is usually garbage, yellow is usually recycled and light green is usually garden waste
I don't know about other states but it's completely random from council to council in Victoria. Mines yellow garbage, red green waste, blue for recycling. Last place I lived it was dark green for garbage, yellow recycling and blue for green waste. I've also seen purple out there too. Got to relearn it every time I move lol
Hi mate, I’ve been working on these things for 10+ years at various councils, in Victoria. I’m a Diesel Mechanic by trade. Most councils I’ve worked at, the maintenance is done every fortnight. The iveco acco, There’s a lot of things that go wrong with them, but parts are easily available and easy to work on, just stinky. The engines are usually a Cummins, Alison transmission with Rockwell diffs. Axles/brakes are the basic s-cam system. The Acco cab has had the same shape for roughly 60 years and are made from scratch at the iveco factory in Dandenong Victoria.
Hope this is helpful, Rossco
yellow usually NSW plate.
That brown one is a DENNIS SPAK. Dennis is the truck and spak is the compacter. The full name of the compacter is superior pack. Superior Pack is the brand of the packing.
IWRocker I can tell you living in Australia red lid bins are general waste, yellow lid are recycling and green lids are compost
Not in all areas.
@@Duchess_of_Cadishead fair point least in my area
I live in a multi block mid-rise complex that has general waste and recycling dumpsters inside bin rooms in the carpark areas. Once a week they're rolled out to a common spot for collection and then rolled back. I have lived in a high rise complex where they'd have the residential style small bins on a carousel at the bottom of a bin chute. When one filled up, it rotated an empty one in its place. These were then emptied once a week after being rolled up to the kerbside.
Although it can change from council to council (think county to county), at least generally in NSW, red means general waste, yellow means recycling and green means garden waste.
Some ppl don't space there bins hence why they fall. And most are left hand drive so the driver is closest to the gutter/curb while on the bin rout. To and from they drive on the right side
In some places the trucks have cameras to watch what is being tipped into the truck, I have heard of some trucks having digital scales to stop people loading the bins up with builders wast.
Garbologist is the Job title
It’s also a hobby name 😉
The Garbo is the common name
Because of an increase in the amount of lithium battery fires, they are changing to a much larger truck here in the UK that does not compact the waste, it's like a cement mixer with an internal helix that just tumbles the material away from the loading point without crushing it.
Dennis the garbage truck is on Mandolong Rad, Mosman Sydney, coming up to the famous Balmoral Beach.
Fun fact, Mosman is Australia's wealthiest suburb with combined taxable income of $2.5 billion.
Ian most, if no all, garbage trucks are dual control, so are actually automatic transmission, have left and right hand steering wheels, and pedals. Admittedly the left has a few extra controls, and could even be built about 6" lower, but with that comes duplicate mirrors, so the top set are for the right, and the lower are for the left, with parabolic ones too to see the whatsits about.
Cheers to all the garbos out there! Definitely an essential job. I'm in a rural area of Tasmania and we have fortnightly collections, garbage (red lid blue bin) one week then recycling (yellow lid) the next. When it was a manual job with men picking up the bins the trucks had compactors on the back, now the robotic arms do that job so the contents go straight in the top. Cab over trucks have better visibility and manoeuvre better in the suburban streets so that's why they make such good garbage trucks, whether it be Iveco, Hino, Isuzu, Dennis or another make. Oh, and yellow number plates are New South Wales.
@13:10 - some body corporates (our take on the infamous HOA) will engage a private contractor or have their own waste agreements with the companies servicing their area and have a skip or so, usually this also means that council rates that the residents would have paid individually are consolidated/reduced in response to the reduced council services, but are made up for in corporate dues which cover this and other site services and facilities (e.g. weekly gardening, pool, community hub, secure/covered parking, etc)
Hi, The RED topped wheelie bins are general garbage collected every week. The YELLOW tops are recycling (glass, cardboard plastic & tin) collected every fortnight. The GREEN topped bins are garden waste (for mulch)also collected every alternate fortnight
In Australia the bin colours are red lid - general waste, green lid - green waste & yellow lid - recycling generally speaking but some councils have extra colours.
Council will provide bins to everyone that get collected on the road like this unless an apartment building pays to have dumpsters and their own waste collection. So the long rows of bins you see are residential apartment buildings who use council bins.
Office buildings have dumpsters that are looked after by private waste management companies.
We have Blue general waste in Port Adelaide
I’m a Garbo as we are known over here in Australia.
I mostly drive around in a Recycling Truck… and it’s a Volvo brand.
All the trucks are Dual Steering…
We drive on the Right hand side when driving to the start of the run, then jump over to the Left hand side when we start picking up the Bins. When the truck is full we then switch back to the Right hand side, driving to the Tip site and back to the run again, then back over to the Left side and finish the run.
It sounds confusing but it’s second nature after a few weeks.
Most Cities have …
Red lids for General waste.
Yellow lids for Recycling &
Bright Green lids for Garden waste.
These Trucks are definitely hard on Brakes and Gearboxes.
But the Company I work for has in-house mechanics that keep things going.
It’s a great job and pays quite well… 100k ( aud ) per year.
Depending of where in each part of the town, we get different garbage days. For us near the CBD of Frankston, Victoria, our day is Monday morning around 7-8am for the normal garbage (red lid) alternate weeks for Recycling (yellow lid) and green waste (lime green lid)
The iveco garbage truck was an international account made in Dandenong Melbourne and taken over by iveco but that ivco is an Australian built cab
Did a bit of research as my area bin collections have changed over the last couples years (Im obviously not in charge of bins 😅) we have 3 bins: recycling, general waste, and FOGO (Food Organics Garden Organics). The FOGO and recycling get picked up weekly, while the general waste gets picked up every fortnight. I think it used to be the opposite until about a year ago, they're trying to get us to produce less waste
All the bins keep getting knocked over because they're put out too close together. The side of the Campbelltown truck was saying 50cm apart and very few of them were - you can see why this is needed in the video with all those closely spaced bins getting in the way of each other. Some drivers wouldn't pick them up like that if they're having a bad day
My brother is a Mechanical Engineer here in Australia & works in the design of these garbage trucks. They also manufacture them & use Iveco trucks as their base to mount the system 😊
At 11:40 the truck is picking up from an apartment block (note multiple letter boxes on wall to rear). Yellow top bins are recycling and red top are general waste. Each apartment will have their own bin. Dumpsters are used if a commercial waste collector is used but individual bins are supplied and are collected as part of the local council rates.
When our very first rural-residential suburb wheelie -bin two man garbage collection service started in the early nineteen- eighties ,the truck was an open backed tipper with a platform with grab rail at the back with one guy standing on it,he'd jump off ,grab the full wheelie-bin ,jump back on with it on his back,manualy empty it,jump back off,put it back ,flick the lid closed , then jump back on ,all the while the truck kept driving then after a while the driver would swap positions ,so that the two could relieve each other ,they were mates of mine who also played in a hotel rock band "hot-ice",Greg the singer guitarist and Brett the bassman,in Cairns ,North Queensland (tropics)it is hot all year here,they wore shorts and tank top and tennis shoes.these days its a one man fully automated beast similar to the one in your video,cheers ,Mate!!! 19:11
Hey man. I've been watching your videos for a while now and love your perspective on things. I used to work for Superior Pack in Bundaberg, which is Australia's leading garbage truck manufacturer. There is 3 main styles of garbage trucks we use. The ones in the video are called Pendulum Pack (side lift), they come in all different body sizes and cab styles. There is also rear lift and then front lift. They typically manufacture 350 to 400 units total for a year. They supply units for many different companies, and colour combos can be the individual schemes or promotional for councils. There was even a few pink side lifts at one stage.
I’m from Queensland Australia. The number plates you saw are from New South Wales Australia. The bins in the 3rd clip are green waste bins for grass and garden cuttings. The garbage day where I live is on Tuesdays. The yellow top bins are recycling and the red top bins are general waste.
There are no automatic bins on the rubbish bin here in Norway, there is still one on the back of the bin that collects and empties, and puts the rubbish bin back. Reasons are probably due to the long winters we have in Norway (5 to 6 months) And since it can fall 20cm at night, and the garbage truck comes in the morning, few people have time to shovel the lid on the garbage bin, so they tilt the lid before emptying rubbish on the truck! In recent years, many of these have become 4x4, and they are either Scania el Man, but now these are to be electrified. The same with buses!
Red lid = landfill, yellow lid = recycling, green lid = garden waste, hedge and grass clippings etc, go to make mulch.
Also Blue for Paper and Card
Dennis also makes fire trucks as well. Different suburbs have different pick up days and green and yellow top bins are recycle bins where as red is rubbish. Green is normally green waste I.e. grass twigs etc.
There can be up to 5 types of 'bin' for our town. A Red lid wheelie bin (140 liters/ 37us gallons) general household garbage, yellow lid wheelie bin- recycling 240 liters/ 63 US gallons, the option of a green lid wheelie bin - for garden lawn material at extra cost, an open top 45 liter/ 12 us gallon glass recycle tub, a closed top green - food scrap bucket 23 liter / 6 us gallon. The food scraps are weekly, rest alternate weeks. The glass and food scraps are personnel hand loaded to the trucks.
The first garbage truck is an Iveco ACCO. Back in 1972 International Harvester built the first model ACCO truck ACCO being short for Australian Constructed Cab Over. The very last model ACCO was built in 2020. The grey Dennis Eagle was operating in what looks like Sydney )NSW plates)
As someone that used to drive a skip truck, I worked for a company that did it all; bulk recycling, household waste, skip trucks which are usually large bins on construction sites. The colour codes on the bin lids vary from council to council. Standard one colour is general waste, yellow is usually recycling, brown is green waste (e.g. garden cuttings)
Garbage trucks have an hour meter on them, like mining machines. Service intervals are at "_________ hours"
If there's a long row of bins like this, it means that it's likely that each is for an individual apartment in a block of them.
ACCOs are usually powered by Cummins 6 cylinder engines paired to an Allison auto transmission.
The trucks with the forks in front are the ones that empty dumpsters. Generally they just call the back of them the body. Inside, they're not just a large hopper. A blade moves to the back of the body, pushing the garbage back and making room for the next dumpster. The residential trucks have a similar blade.
I did hear the story of two "criminal masterminds" that thought a dumpster was the best place to hide from mall security. A bad idea for two reasons:
1. You'll stink when you get out
2. You never know when it's going to be emptied
Unfortunately for these two idiots, that scenario happened. The operator didn't see them, and tipped them into the back. It gets even worse for them. The next dumpster on this truck's run was a police station. As he pulled up, and was about to lower the forks, he heard banging from inside the body. He knocked on the back door of the police station and explained the situation. He opened the service door of the body to the sigh of four police surrounding them. "Well, well well," said one of the cops, "we've been looking for you two."
So; The first council featured with Iveco "Acco" cabs is Hornsby Council, the trucks looked at in this clip were Ivevo Acco cabs with Superior Pak Series 2 bodies. The second council with the grey trucks was Northern Beaches Council, using Dennis Eagle cabs with Superior Pak Series 5 bodies. The last council looked at was Campbelltown, and indeed was a unit line. In Australia the trucks are known as "dual control" meaning that they can be steered and driven from both seats in the cab; on the right for regular driving, and on the left for collection so as you can see the bins.
I am pretty happy in Finland our city's recycler got trucks based on hybrid electric scania (busses I guess). They even have bus style low floor cabin and door. They are so silent you don't even notice them visiting right outside window. We have 5 different material bins and drivers jump out all the time to handle the bins to lifters at back of truck. We have them spread out to 14 day cycle making quiet trucks really nice.
And then comes the ol garbage truck with old volvo diesel and noisy lifts. Can't miss it at 5 am once a week.
Back in the late 80's the guy who ran the Mandurah WA rubbish Tip had a shack at the entrance to Tip that had a hand written sign on it, that said "Director Of Garbology"
they're dual control with 2 steering wheels, can be operated from either side of the truck
Hi mate.
I am a garbage driver, the trucks are dual steer vehicles. Left hand drive for collection and right hand drive when finished. Can not stay on left to drive to dump as it's illegal.
Joystick controlled for pick up bins and 6 cameras on truck and a camera in the bowl. To see what people put into there bins. Making sure it's not dangerous ie. Gas bottles and other explosive materials.
Our system is blue for rubbish, yellow for recycling and green for food and garden waste.
The green top bins are usually for green waste that goes to composting (lawn clippings, food waste, etc).
Red top bins are general waste and yellow top bins are for recycling (cans, bottles, cardboard,etc).
Little bit of history, at least for here in Western Australia.
We call them rubbish trucks and wheelie bins.
Up until around 2011, the red lidded bin was dark green, and a lot of the older houses still have the dark green lid. The rubbish wheelie bin has been in operation here in Western Australia since the early '90s, sometime around 1992 I was seeing them in Perth as a kid.
Back then, the rubbish truck had a driver and 2 blokes on the back of it, the truck would pull up, the 2 blokes on the back would jump off and grab a bin from either side of the road, the 2 arms would then empty the bins.
Then sometime about 10yrs later, the 2 arms merged into a single arm on the left side of the truck and the 2 blokes disappeared having just the driver.
Some parts of WA still have the 2 bin system, but most areas are moving (or have already moved) to the 3 bin system, the town I live in, we moved to the 3 bin system around 10yrs ago. In a 3 bin system, the red lidded bin and yellow lidded bin alternative every 2nd week.
The 3 bin system consists of: 1 red lidded bin for general waste (Rubbish bin), 1 yellow lidded bin for recycling, and 1 lime green lidded bin for FOGO (Food organics, Garden organics). The town I live in, bins are emptied every Friday, the FOGO bin is every single week, with rubbish and recycling alternating.
Every single rubbish collection day (with the red lidded bin), the driver has a habit of taking all the bins in the neighbourhood for a walk... I always find my bin several meters down the road from where I put it. The other 2 bins never have this problem :)
My bins go out Wednesday evening, for Thursday morning collection.
Every week 2 bins go out
RED LID = General Waste
+
YELLOW LID = Recycling (week 2, and 4)
or
GREEN LID = Garden Waste (week 1, and 3)
A block of apartments will generally have a set of bins for each apartment.
As a engineer garbage trucks are pretty much top tear with trucks (well i guess special haulers are above). The reason is that hardly anyone want to work with them, and truck drivers are even at best times hard to get hold of.
So they demand loads of technology to make the work simpler. And there are also a lot of demands on garbage trucks there are not on normal trucks. Plenty of aux power, good acceleration and stooping, and now days they also need to be silent because they often work early in the morning (i don´t work with trucks, i work with rail-systems)
Garbage trucks was really early with automatic gearbox and those arms are semi robotized. They typically have sort of a homing so the driver don´t have to stop exactly the right position, they can move like 20 cm on each direction.
Strange, In Sweden where i live we have a RF-ID tag on the garbage cans, so when they tip it in the garbage truck,the truck automatically open the right compartment. There is a few variants of it.
The RF-ID tag is also used for billing, because you get billed per KG of garbage.
Green bins are for green waste(vegetation, food scraps, etc.). Yellow bins are recyclable materials, and red or blue bins are for other household rubbish.
In Norway we have the old style garbage trucks with 2-3 people picking up the bins inside the Gates. We have 4 different bins + plastic bags for plastic waste. The food waste bin and the ordinary waste bin is collected every 2. Week. The paper bin and plastic waste once a month and the glass and metal bin every second month. The food waste they compost into gas and the trucks use it. All kinds of euro trucks, but mostly Scania and Volvos. Thanks to all the renovators out there😊
Dennis is a UK coach builder, that buys various manufacturers’ chassis and power units, and fits coach, bus and other specialist bodies, including refuse truck.
In the Northern Suburbs of South Australia the colour red is used to indicate garbage the colour yellow is used to indicate recycling and the colour green indicates green waste for making compost. In the southern suburbs the same colour scheme is used with the exception that a very bright blue is used the indicate recycling instead of the yellow.
Red are our normal rubbish bin, yellow is our recycling and green is for garden waste. Love ya work.
The last truck was from Campbelltown which is in western Sydney. Different councils use either contractors for all collections and others use contractors for recycling and their own for general waste.
Iveco is an italian manufacturer, they took over International trucks that were made in Melbourne, they specialise in rubbish trucks. the trucks use an USA drivetrain, cummins diesel allison auto. The bodies are locally made. The dennis is a UK specialist rubbish truck maker. The rubbish trucks are dual control, single operator. Lately Mercedes and Isuzu have made in roads into the sector. Our heavt trucks are mostly European, with the B trains and road trains mainly being USA custom trucks. kenworth has an assembley plant in Melbourne, they can go up to 120tonnes.
Yes mate red bins are standard garbage, yellow is for glass, plastic and cardboard, green is for food scraps and green waste. These vehicles are dual drive. They might use the left hand drive to pick up bins but switch over to right side to head to the tip to dump it.
On the NSW Mid-North Coast we have three 240 litre (63.4gal US) bins, red (putrescible), green (compostable), and yellow (recyclable). Thursday night is bin night (Fri morn p/up) and green is emptied every week, while red and yellow alternate. Garden stuff grows pretty quick around here and it doesn't take long to fill the green bin.
In NSW and VICTORIA, yellow lid bins are recycling, green is food and garden waste, and red lids are for normal indoor bin waste. We also collect 10 cent bottles and cans to get cashback.
Where I am in Australia, there a company that uses an odd type of truck with a split system where the recycling bin has a divider inside that splits the waste into two compartments which are emptied into two separate compartments in the truck.
This is not the oddest thing with the truck, it’s a side loader that doesn’t have the traditional claw, but uses a fork an clamp device and sprays a little water jet to open the lid of the bin before emptying into the truck.
It’s indeed fairly interesting to watch, but I’m having a hard time finding CZcams link so someone in here who may read this may know what I’m writing about beside the company that uses them is SOLO which is mostly all over NSW/VIC.
Apartment building's caretaker would be taking that long row of bins out of the bin room, to the kerb the night before, making sure the truck has access to them. Or in my last apartment building's case, being underground bin storage room, we had a mini truck back up through the underground carpark to the bin storage and the caretaker would take bins out one at a time for the truck to empty. Alot easier that one.