City of Sydney – emptying just one bin per hour… and proud of it
The punters in Sydney CBD have had plenty of opportunities to see a piece of ambient advertising boasting about what a great job City Of Sydney did keeping the streets tidy on New Year’s Eve. The poster, still on the side of garbage trucks, boasts: “1,300 bins emptied by 60 trucks in 24 hours”.
Dr Mumbo was quite impressed… until he did the maths.
That equates to 21.6 bins per truck.
Well spotted Dr Mumbo.
Looking at Sydney City response it becomes clear that these Council people are Trojans of rubbish.
Based on 58 tonnes of New Years Eve rubbish the figures reveal the following:-
– Each truck picks up a whopping 40 kgs of rubbish per hour.
– Each of the 350 staff fare little better, having to remove a backbreaking 7 kgs of rubbish per hour.
Rubbish workers indeed!
SCS
To be fair, weight’s not the issue if the waste is 90% recyclable. The work would be light, but bulky. Most of that work (I’d guess 75%) would be done between 9pm and 3am, and a lot of staff would be picking rubbish off the ground, not just emptying bins.
But still, who approved that ad? Geez.