Hard rubbish collection delay in Frankston causes ratepayer anger

FRANKSTON ratepayers fear the municipality will become a tip with rubbish dumped on roadsides and parks because of a six-month delay in council’s hard waste collection.

FRANKSTON ratepayers fear the municipality will become a tip with rubbish dumped on roadsides and parks because of a six-month delay in council’s hard waste collection.

Residents who mistakenly believed the collection would be held at its usual time later this year and left rubbish out, could also face fines, according to a ratepayers’ group.

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The council has pushed the collection date back from October to April, blaming the service provider’s conflict in schedules for the delay.

The council copped a lashing on social media where one resident claimed “council [is] screwing us over again. Raise our rates then push our services back.”

Another said “and they [councillors] wonder why people are dumping rubbish everywhere”.

Darrel Taylor, the vice-president of the City of Frankston Residents and Ratepayers Association, said the council was “incompetent” and should have known there were only a handful of companies which provided the service and should have signed up a contractor earlier than September.

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He said the delay could increase illegal dumping with parks, gardens and bushlands and roadsides littered with rubbish.

It was unfair that council had threatened to charge people who unwittingly left waste out in the normal collection month with illegal dumping, carrying fines of $15,000, he said.

Frankston resident Phil Trembath said people wanted to clear out sheds and garages in the led up to Christmas and some might be tempted to illegally dump waste because of high tipping fees.

“By the time the collection happens around Easter next year our municipality will look like a tip that extends through every suburb,” he said.

Gemma Hughes who runs the Two Ladies and a Trailer waste collection service said the business was already getting calls from frustrated Frankston residents wanting to get rid of their junk.

The council said in a statement that items left on the nature-strip would be deemed illegal dumping and would prosecute or fine offenders.

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