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<\/p>\nNORTH Torquay residents are becoming increasingly frustrated at their backroad street being treated as a garbage tip, with piles of hard rubbish and green waste continually appearing on the roadside.<\/p>\n
Residents of Blackgate Road reached a tipping point last week, when at least three different trash dumps happened in the space of about two hours.<\/p>\n
Furniture, fridges, household items and garden waste littered the roadside early last week, as residents noticed new trash piles appear consistently during the day.<\/p>\n
Local man David Dennis, who lives in the area, was among the residents to share their anger online.<\/p>\n
“It’s frustrating how filthy people are,” he said.<\/p>\n
“They won’t dump it on their own curbs, they’ll come and dump it on ours. It just shows no respect.”<\/p>\n
Mr Dennis said that the quiet backroads had been a common dumping ground for several years for local litterbugs, but the concentrated incidence pointed to increasing regularity of the irritating behaviour.<\/p>\n
“This one was rather cheeky because it’s virtually outside my front gate and in full view of my neighbour. They normally like to go a bit further, towards Ghazeepore Road and the Anglesea Road,” he said.<\/p>\n
“They just pull up, chuck stuff off and keep going.<\/p>\n
“The real nuisance is that these are our shire rates that are paying for people to go along and pick it all up again.”<\/p>\n
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Workers removed hard rubbish from Blackgate Road last week and returned on Monday to collect green waste.<\/p>\n
The council’s environment manager Chris Pike said the organisation shared the community frustration with the illegal dumps.<\/p>\n
“Many of the items dumped, such as whitegoods, bikes, BBQs and other metal items are accepted free-of-charge at council transfer stations. Some metal recyclers will even pick them up from residential properties,” Mr Pike said.<\/p>\n
“There is no excuse for dumping rubbish. It is not only unsightly, it poses unacceptable risks to people and our environment.<\/p>\n
“The costs to clean up dumped waste incurred by councils and other land managers is borne by everyone.”<\/p>\n
Dumpers caught in the act can receive on-the-spot fines of up to $9000 under environment legislation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NORTH Torquay residents are becoming increasingly frustrated at their backroad street being treated as a garbage tip, with piles of hard rubbish and green waste continually appearing on the roadside. Residents of Blackgate Road reached a tipping point last week, when at least three different trash dumps happened in the space of about two hours. […]<\/p>\n