New bins on the block
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Residents are asked to follow these simple steps:
Place your waste bin(s) out for servicing on your usual bin night. The first batch of bins with red lids will be delivered on Monday, 3 September.Council will then empty your old wheelie bin(s), return to the kerbside and drop off a new waste bin with a red lid. Letters to property owners, who in the past have paid for a bin or a number of bins as part of their rates bill, will be taped on to the lid of the old bin. If you have paid for extra bins you will be allocated the appropriate number of new bins. Remove the new bin(s) with a red lid from the kerbside and secure on your property. Take the letter taped to the lid of the old bin and find enclosed a sticker, saying, ‘Please remove this bin’. If you want Council to remove the old bin/s place the enclosed sticker on top of the lid of the old bin(s), and leave on the kerbside ready to be collected. Do not place waste in the old bin(s) once they have been emptied. Allow for seven days, up to the next bin collection date at least, for the old bin(s) to be removed. Old bins may be kept but they will no longer be emptied once the waste bin with a red lid is delivered. Only red-lid waste bins will be emptied. Tenants will need to check with landlords as to what they want done with the old bins or any extra bins on the property. Place the red lid waste bin(s) out for servicing on your next bin night. If you know you will not be home for your next bin collection, ask family, friends or neighbours to place the old bin/s out and retrieve the new red-lid waste bin. If you have an old wheelie bin which does not get replaced by the end of September, please call Council on 08 8962 0000.Council calculates it will take up to three weeks to replace all old wheelie bins, with the first batch of red-lidded waste bins being delivered on the morning of Monday, 3 September.
Council CEO Steve Moore said a lot of the wheelie bins in Tennant Creek, which currently belong to property owners, are old, damaged or beyond repair.
“Rather than bill ratepayers for the replacement of these bins, Council will now provide new bins at no cost to ratepayers. This is how all modern Councils manage their waste collection,” he said. “This is a significant job and we appreciate everyone’s patience throughout this period of change.”
Residents are to place the old waste bin(s) on to the kerbside the night before their normal weekly bin collection.
When the rollout reaches your street Council will empty your old bin(s) and a new wheelie bin with a red lid will be left with your old bin(s) on the kerbside. This process will continue as each bin collection day is completed.
Once each household receives the new red-lidded waste bin your old bin(s), regardless of age or condition, will no longer be emptied.
Letters to property owners, including stickers, will be taped on to the lid of your old waste bin.
If property owners would like Council to remove the old wheelie bin(s) please place the sticker enclosed on top of your old bin(s) and leave empty at the kerbside.
Property owners may keep their old bin(s), but these bins will no longer be emptied once the red-lid waste bin is allocated.
All red-lid wheelie bins will remain the property of Barkly Regional Council. Each property owner is responsible for the red-lidded bin(s) allocated by Council and it is therefore their responsibility to notify Council if it is lost or damaged.
Barkly Regional Council asks residents to be patient during this rollout and apologises for any inconvenience caused.