Ever wondered what happened to neighbourhood-wide hard rubbish collection? We did some sleuthing.
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, so the saying goes. But, really, it depends on the suburb.
I’ve had an amazing strike-rate of finding gold -- among soiled mattresses and cracked hoses begging to be fashioned into bongs by teens -- while fossicking through my neighbours’ discarded hard rubbish. I have vivid childhood memories of racing with mates on our bikes to beat dilapidated Commodores towing illegal trailers to rummage through freshly-laid piles of kerbside crud.
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