Brisbane parking inspectors back Wednesday, 200 rotting food sites coming today

Parking inspectors will be back from Wednesday, 200 bins for rotting food will be in place on Tuesday and two extra green waste dumping sites are up and running.

Parking inspectors will be back from Wednesday, Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner has confirmed, with buses back to normal by then.

No start date for ferries could yet be given due to the amount of debris in the Brisbane River.

Despite very challenging conditions more than 700 bus trips were delivered on Sunday, more than 2400 trips on Monday and 5000 services were planned for Tuesday.

Residents were encouraged to check the Translink website to plan their journey.

Kerbside collection would start on Monday to give people time to put out ruined furniture and other items.

Mr Schrinner said many people had to work during the week or needed time to contact their insurers, so council had decided to delay kerbside collection until after this weekend.

But almost 200 bins for rotting food would be in place by late Tuesday in parks around Brisbane where those who have lost power can dispose of their fridge contents.

Two extra “satellite’’ green waste dumping sites were now up and running at Mt Coot-tha and Whites Hill, while council has now reopened all of its dumps which were running to extended hours to help with green waste drop-offs.

Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner at the flooded Brisbane City soccer club where he announced $7500 clean-up grants. Picture: NewsWire/Tertius Pickard

Evacuation centres have now closed.

Mr Schrinner meanwhile announced up to $7500 cash would be deposited in the bank accounts of community clubs hard hit by cyclone Alfred by the end of the week.

He promised the process would be light on bureaucracy, with only a short survey required to be filled out to qualify for financial help with clean-up efforts.

“With assistance from our Community Clean-Up Payments plus support from the Ute Army it will be a team effort to repair our clubs,’’ he said.

“I know our community will come together to complete the clean-up efforts, and we’re going to help with the bill.’’

More than 600 council community facilities including sporting groups, historical societies, men’s sheds and craft groups were eligible for the money.

A similar scheme was introduced after the 2022 floods and was paid to 320 community clubs and to 107 clubs after the 2011 floods.

Members of the Brisbane City soccer club clean up flood damage. Picture: NewsWire/Tertius Pickard

Mr Schrinner also advised clubs, businesses and homeowners who received sandbags to keep them for the next flood, if they were not contaminated by tainted water.

He said people should empty the sand in their gardens or outside on their properties, where possible, but to store the bags inside as they deteriorated in sunlight.

There have been reports of people being charged to dump sandbags at council tips because they were classed as general waste.

People should not fill wheelie bins with sandbags as they would be too heavy to collect.

Mr Schrinner encouraged those with utes or trailers to contact their local council ward office so they could be connected with people who needed help removing green waste.

He slapped down comments from Labor Opposition Leader Jared Cassidy that council was getting the public to “do its dirty work’’ by encouraging a “ute army’’, saying council crews would be busy for month.

Redcliffe residents return their sandbag sand back to the beach. Picture David Clark

He said it was also important to allow people to help others if they wanted, where safe.

Mr Cassidy said he had asked last week if council had the trucks, equipment and “boots on the ground’’ to respond to the clean-up and was assured by it did.

“This was a clearly a lie. Adrian Schrinner has no plan to help those in need across Brisbane so he’s asking residents to do it themselves,’’ he claimed.

“Asking people to go around in their own utes and lean up other people’s yards in not a plan. It’s a knee-jerk reaction.

“Dumps have been closed due to flooding and bin collections have been missed.

“I personally know residents on the northside have had to go to neighbouring LGA’s to get rid of excess rubbish because the Lord Mayor hasn’t yet provided an alternative. It’s not good enough.

“The Opposition has requested kerbside green waste collection in areas of need and skip bins for excess rubbish around the community.’’