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.
Or, spread over 24 hours, one bin per truck every hour and six minutes.
No wonder taxes are so high…
Update: The City of Sydney have contacted Dr Mumbo to reassure him that they were in fact emptying the same bins repeatedly over that period.
A spokesperson said: “The City is using 1300 garbage bins, including more than 600 temporary bins, to cope with the rubbish from New Years Eve revellers.
“Over the 24 hour New Year’s Eve period, around 350 City staff and 60 trucks are emptying the bins repeatedly, and picking up litter to keep streets and parks clean.
“ The City is expecting to collect around 58 tonnes of New Years Eve rubbish of which 90 per cent will be recycled.
“Early on New Years Day, City staff will sweep the streets and pressure clean foothpaths to transform the city.”
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!
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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.
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